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DeShannon Higa

Ho'ihi

By Noel Okimoto

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Cachorra; Up Syndrome; Braying; Karing Karing (for Gabe Baltazar); Patina Ballerina (for the cymbalsmiths); Lethologica; Longest Day; Wayne-ing Days (for Wayne Shorter); Cachorro; Nine and a Half; Under the Bottom; Opuscule for Rowan.

Noel Okimoto: Ho'ihi

by Jack Bowers
March 13, 2025

Honolulu-born Noel Okimoto has been playing drums professionally since he was eleven years old. He has learned over the years to supervise the drum kit with equanimity and deference, a standard that Okimoto's octet endorses when approaching the music on his second album as a leader, Ho'ihi (ho-ee-hee), a Hawaiian phrase that translates roughly into “treat ...