Stories — Releases
New Music from an Old Soul: Introducing Nick Kurosawa
We are super pleased to welcome O‘ahu-born soul singer Nick Kurosawa to the Aloha Got Soul label. In September 2017, our lives changed when we heard Nick's deeply heartfelt voice on a YouTube video that had just over 1,000 plays. We immediately rushed to see his next gig. From there, our friendship grew. We locked in collab gigs at the Surfjack hotel and Hawaii State Art Museum and introduced him to musicians like Maryanne Ito and Gilbert Batangan — which resulted in his first major venue performance at the Blue Note Hawaii with the Dae Han Ensemble's Tribute to J...
No Beginning, No End: Our first release of 2018
A welcome contender in the ever-flowing stream of funk 45s, AGS-7008 is a solid addition for DJs worth their salt — and our contribution to the "beautiful sounds" of the world.
'Aloha Got Soul' compilation nominated for two Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards
The hope for every project on the Aloha Got Soul label is to create a lasting document of timeless music that reaches a new crop of listeners in Hawaii and the world. For a place like Hawaii, so isolated from the rest of the world, it is invaluable to create an exchange of knowledge and ideas between these islands and distant destinations.
ÆOLUS: An anthology from Hawaii's new age visionary, Robert ‘Aeolus’ Myers
This double LP brings to light the music of Robert ÆOLUS Myers, featuring recordings previously available only on cassette or CD. For Aloha Got Soul, this marks a new chapter of bringing rare and relatively unknown music of Hawai‘i to the surface.
English translation of Aiko's "Fly With Me" and "Time Machine"
With the help of a Japanese professor, Google translate, and a small working knowledge of the language, I was able to piece together a simple translation of Aiko's "Fly With Me" and "Time Machine". This is a simple way for non-Japanese speakers to understand what the songs are about.