Tunes to set the mood
Author Sven A. Kirsten’s “The Book of Tiki” re-energized the world’s interest in the polynesian pop phenomenon in the early 1990s. Now he’s poised to do the same thing for music with The Sound of Tiki, a 17-track compilation of surf, lounge, exotica, and hapa haole music that defines the tiki sound.
The package also includes [...]
Taxes got you down? This month Tiki Talk is wishing you “many happy returns” by giving away one CD each week in April.
The band for our second CD giveaway comes from the icy shores of Norway: The Mobsmen! Their debut CD, Scelerats Syndicate, features a dozen great surf tunes, mostly instros, but a few energetic [...]
Taxes got you down? This month Tiki Talk is wishing you “many happy returns” by giving away one CD each week in April.
First up, courtesy of Double Crown Records, is the latest CD from Icelandic guitar-slinger Burt Rocket. Savage Iceland is an amazing 12-track disc of melodic but powerful surf rock. It’s by far the [...]
Waitiki is the finest exotica band working today. Fresh off of their Hawaii Music Awards win for Exotica Album of the Year, Waitiki will be appearing in Honolulu for two shows in April:
THE JAZZ SOUNDS OF THE WAITIKI 7
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Gordon Biersch | 1 Aloha Tower Dr., Honolulu, HI
WAITIKI 7 will bring [...]
If Jack Skellington can bring Halloween to Christmas, than why can’t I? The fine folks at Dionysus Records have come through again with another great CD to giveaway to one lucky Tiki Talk reader. This time it’s the latest release from The Creepy Creeps, titled “Fink About It!”
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Apparently while we were all partying this summer, exotica-music favorites Waitiki was out adding more members to its already chops-heavy lineup and recording a new album.
The quartet has now expanded to a septet and been re-crisoned “The Waitiki 7″; their new 13-track CD, Adventures in Paradise, is available at Amazon.com both as a traditional [...]
I ran across this the other day in the liquor store attached to my local Publix store. It’s a combo pack with a bottle of Tommy Bahama Sand (aka light) rum and the 12 oz. ceramic tiki mug.
The best part: it was on sale for $19.95, normally $39.00. Your price may be different, but for [...]