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A Forgotten Album: Kalapana Plays Southern All Stars
Today is a special day, my girlfriend’s birthday! This post is in honor of her and her Japanese roots. It’s also a post about a Kalapana album that not many people know about. Enjoy! Kalapana sat down in 1991 to create what should be a monumental album in their long list of recordings, but has … Continue reading
Aura “Yesterday’s Love”
Since my interview with Toshi, whose label Cool Sound reissued an album by Aura, I’ve been meaning to post my own videos of Aura’s music… but why wait if someone else has one up? Here’s an outstanding track about love lost, called “Yesterday’s Love”. It gives me chills to listen to! Her voice is so … Continue reading
A Few Finds
Recent plans to go back to the islands for a short vacation have fallen through, so I’m left digging for Hawaiian records some 2500 miles away from Honolulu. Can’t say that these albums satisfied my need to dig through bins at Hungry Ear, Jelly’s, Rainbow’s, and all the thrift stores on O’ahu. But it was … Continue reading
Cool Sound / Cool Hawaii Japanese Record Label
Aside from say, Mackey Feary’s Black & White CD, there haven’t been too many reissues of Hawaiian LPs in the U.S. (at least the kine I’m looking for). But do you remember what I said about those Japanese record enthusiasts? Needless to say, some of the best Hawaiian funk/soul/jazz has been re-released on CD via … Continue reading
Babadu – Babadu!
When you live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you wake up everyday and it’s beautiful outside. When you live in the Pacific Northwest, summer stops by for two months or so. The rest of the year you wake up and it’s gray, dreary and rainy outside. That’s why I like Babadu. His music … Continue reading
Lui Williams + a confession
I started ALOHA GOT SOUL out of a passion for this music. Every album I blog about is not in my record collection, and I don’t have a library of knowledge stored in my head either. I’m here because I want to learn more, discover great music and share what I find. In the future … Continue reading
