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Aloha Got Soul

by Various Artists

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1 Tender Leaf - Countryside Beauty
    A2 Aura - Yesterday's Love
    A3 'Āina* - Your Light
    A4 Lemuria - Get That Happy Feeling

    B1 Roy & Roe - Just Don't Come Back
    B2 Hawaii - Lady Of My Heart
    B3 Hal Bradbury - Call Me
    B4 Mike Lundy - Love One Another

    C1 Nova - I Feel Like Getting Down
    C2 Nohelani Cypriano - O'Kailua
    C3 Brother Noland - Kawaihae
    C4 Marvin Franklin With Kimo And The Guys - Kona Winds

    D1 Greenwood - Sparkle
    D2 Chucky Boy Chock & Mike Kaawa With Brown Co. - Papa'A Tita
    D3 Steve & Teresa - Kaho'Olawe Song
    D4 Rockwell Fukino - Coast To Coast

    Includes unlimited streaming of Aloha Got Soul via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    1 Tender Leaf - Countryside Beauty
    2 Aura - Yesterday's Love
    3 'Āina* - Your Light
    4 Lemuria - Get That Happy Feeling (Instrumental)
    5 Roy & Roe - Just Don't Come Back
    6 Hawaii - Lady Of My Heart
    7 Hal Bradbury - Call Me
    8 Mike Lundy - Love One Another
    9 Nova - I Feel Like Getting Down
    10 Nohelani Cypriano - O'Kailua
    11 Brother Noland - Kawaihae
    12 Marvin Franklin With Kimo And The Guys - Kona Winds
    13 Greenwood - Sparkle
    14 Chucky Boy Chock & Mike Kaawa With Brown Co. - Papa'A Tita
    15 Steve & Teresa - Kaho'Olawe Song
    16 Rockwell Fukino - Coast To Coast

    Includes unlimited streaming of Aloha Got Soul via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
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      €12 EUR or more 

     

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €11 EUR  or more

     

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New on Strut for March 2016, ‘Aloha Got Soul’ encompasses a vibrant era of contemporary music made in Hawai’i during the 1970s to the mid-1980s as jazz, rock, funk, disco and R&B co-existed alongside Hawaiian folk music.

Hawai’i’s identity had undergone huge change: statehood into America in ‘59 and the Vietnam War were the backdrop as Hawai’i’s youth found inspiration in a new wave of international music led initially by The Beatles and Stones and, later, by US R&B bands like Earth Wind & Fire and Tower Of Power. Garage bands flourished during the ‘60s and, by the ‘70s, live music was at its peak. Waikīkī was filled with clubs: The Point After, Infinity’s, Hawaiian Hut, Spats and more.

For the ‘70s generation of artists, some came through the talent contest ‘Home Grown’ and its accompanying compilation LP. Singer Nohelani Cypriano won it with her instant radio hit, ‘Lihue’. Other winning songs, like Marvin Franklin’s soul surfer jam ‘Kona Winds’, burned more slowly but have endured with DJs today. Many records also packed a powerful message. In 1978, Hawaiian was made the official state language and a huge movement arose to revive hula and traditional music. Steve & Teresa’s ‘Kaho’olawe Song’ longs for an island long gone: the US military had used Kaho’olawe as a bombing range since Pearl Harbor. Nohelani Cypriano sang about the once sleepy town of Kailua, now a popular tourist destination: “Kailua needs no high-rise with her blue skies, not for our eyes. Can you realize?”

Leading Hawaiian artists like Aura, Mike Lundy and keyboardist Kirk Thompson’s Lemuria took time in high quality facilities like Broad Recording Studio to make albums. Others grabbed studio time when they could: Tender Leaf’s Murray Compoc worked for the city bus by day and recorded an album during night sessions. Other albums were spontaneous. In 1983, Steve Maii & Teresa Bright recorded an acoustic set in just 3 hours after being invited to a studio following a gig.

For the artists of the ‘70s, the climate for music changed rapidly during the mid-‘80s as DJ culture grew and live venues shut down. Hawai’i’s R&B era shone brightly and relatively briefly but, despite brilliant musicians, regular gigs and LP releases, most of the music barely made it to the mainland. Thanks largely to Aloha Got Soul’s Roger Bong, a new interest in this fertile era of Hawaiian music has grown, culminating in this new compilation of overlooked gems. ‘Aloha Got Soul’ is compiled and annotated by Bong and features rare photos and original artwork.

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released March 18, 2016

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Strut is known as one of the leading labels worldwide for reissues, compilations and new studio albums in the field of African, Latin, and Caribbean music, soul, funk, jazz and disco.
Established 1999.

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