WAITIKI Festival of Music and Cocktails CD Giveaway #2

To help celebrate Don the Beachcomber presents WAITIKI, A Festival of Music and Cocktails, WAITIKI and TIki Talk have teamed up to giveaway WAITIKI music each week until the festival kicks off.

WAITIKI Rendezvous In Okonkuluku CDThis week, we're giving away WAITIKI's
Rendezvous In Okonkuluku to one lucky reader (listen to samples).

The world’s only performers and drinkers of exotic tiki-tainment from Polynesia and beyond have released their second album featuring 14 tracks of Polynesian Pop and tiki-drink accompaniment! Produced by the inimitable Brother Cleve of Combustable Edison and DelFuegos fame, WAITIKI’s new album is subtitled “A Fresh Retrospective of Classic Exotica.”

WAITIKI has been whisking their listeners to their self-created imaginary world of Okonkuluku since 2003. The band is one of only two bands in the world performing the original style of lounge and Polynesian pop known as exotica (or tiki music). Charred Mammal Flesh: Exotic Music for BBQ, their 2005 debut release, won a Hawai’i Music Award for “Best Album: Exotica”—a brand-new awards category made for the band. WAITIKI has performed exotica at the 2005 Hawai’i International Jazz Festival; at the 2006 Festival de Mexico with their 21-pc “Orchestrotica” (who plays the world’s only transcriptions of Juan Garcia Esquivel); and twice at world-famous Hukilau tiki festival in Florida.

Rendezvous in Okonkuluku (R.I.O.) brings to mind the classic sounds of Martin Denny, Les Baxter, and Arthur Lyman (they cover Denny’s “Tiki” and “Voodoo Love” on this album). “We have brought you the finest available recorded sound, so that you can reduce it to compressed mpeg files and listen to it with little earbuds while you’re sipping a Rum Barrel on some faraway beach…or even Minneapolis, ” adds producer Brother Cleve.

Just fill out the form below to enter. One entry per email address, and entries must be sent by midnight EST on December 17, 2010. Good luck!

We have a winner! Michael Binczek will be receiving a Rendezvous in Okonkuluku CD.

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Ron Kanaka plays ukulele, write songs, and performs with The Crazed Mugs. He's also the publisher of Tiki Talk, the longest-running blog devoted to the Polynesian Pop movement and Hawaiian culture. And, he's been known to invent killer rum cocktails in the Trader Vic's/Don the Beachcomber style. | Google+ | Facebook | Twitter