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Category Archives: CD

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Alika Lyman’s Debut CD Release Party

February 22, 2013by Roger Bong Leave a comment

The Alika Lyman Group release their debut CD at The Dragon Upstairs this Friday. Their single, “Summer Me”, beckons to be played once, twice, or twenty times with its sound of lazy sunshine baking the brim of your hat.

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CD, Events, Jazz, Soul
Toshi Nakada and Lance Jyo

A Pacific Rendezvous: Lance Jyo meets Toshi Nakada

September 9, 2012by Roger Bong Leave a comment

Like a turntable’s tonearm guiding the needle to the record, Lance Jyo has helped Toshi Nakada find the groove he was looking for.
Hawaii-based musician Lance Jyo was instrumental in helping Toshi Nakada reissue Hawaiian AOR albums on his Japanese record label, Cool Sound.

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AOR, CD
Aloha Got Soul: Kalapana Sings Southern All Stars 1991

A Forgotten Album: Kalapana Plays Southern All Stars

October 23, 2011by Roger Bong 2 Comments

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 […]

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CD, Soul

Aura “Yesterday’s Love”

November 6, 2010by Roger Bong 1 Comment

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 […]

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CD, Funk, Soul, Video
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A Few Finds

September 2, 2010by Roger Bong Leave a comment

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 […]

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CD, LP
Mike Lundy - Inner Flame (COHI1019)

Cool Sound / Cool Hawaii Japanese Record Label

August 30, 2010by Roger Bong 3 Comments

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 […]

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CD, LP

Babadu – Babadu!

August 15, 2010by Roger Bong 1 Comment

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 […]

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CD, DJ Mixes, Jazz, LP, Soul
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Lui Williams + a confession

August 8, 2010by Roger Bong 5 Comments

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 […]

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CD, Jazz, LP

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