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2020 End of Year recap, part 3: Madvillain, Dae Han, and all 25 releases of 2020
In all, we dropped 27 releases in 2020. A handful of them were digital-only, which I'm happy to pursue because it allows us to expand our catalog more quickly and it gives our fans and new listeners more music to dive into. For that, I couldn't be more excited for.
2020 End of Year recap, part 2: Soul Time in Tokyo
While we couldn’t make it overseas this year, we pulled together a 90 minute tri-city stream from Tokyo, LA, and Honolulu. Soul Time in Tokyo 2020 supported by Technics.
2020 End of Year recap, part 1: Teresa Bright's "Blue Skies"
Teresa Bright's Blue Skies is an unreleased jazz vocal album recorded in 2005 with pianist/arranger Kit Ebersbach and bassist Steve Jones.
Repress alert: Mike Lundy "The Rhythm Of Life" back on wax in 2020
Mike Lundy's funk-and-soul classic, The Rhythm Of Life, repressed for a second time on vinyl from Aloha Got Soul. Available late November 2020.
The eighth volume of our Aloha ‘Āina series dives deeper than ever before
It was late February before the world closed down, and the impending travel restrictions to and in Hawaii meant travelers and locals keen on outdoor escapes in the beautiful Hawaiian Islands would soon be relegated to their sofas at home, replete with nothing more than a computer screen or mobile phone, hopefully at least with a decent sound system to enjoy during lockdown. Aloha ‘Aina, Volume 8: Field Recordings of Hawaii by Pacific Sounds In those anticipatory moments of the world coming to a still, I realized something that had been under my nose for a long time: Kit Ebersbach had tons of field...