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1. What is your relationship to the Tiki music genres of Exotica, Hawaiin, Ultra-lounge and so on?

I first encountered Exotica at the quite young age of 5.  My mother had Arthur Lyman's "Bahia" LP.  The cover was so exotic and inviting. When I put the LP on for the first time, it was the title track on side 1 "Bahia" that starts with bass and jungle birds. I was immediately hooked. I played that album every day.  Today, 40+ years later, I still have that same LP. I am also a musician and have studied Latin jazz and fronted my own salsa band for years.  In my late 30s I rediscovered Exotica and picked up the vibraphone.  I was in the original incarnation of Tikiyaki Orchestra and Tiki Joe's Ocean.  I performed at Tiki festivals in both bands and fronted my own bands as well.  I began heavily collecting Exotica LP's in 2000.  It is the LP collecting that opened me to more "traditional" Hawaiian music and ultra-lounge which I just love.  

2. You also run a podcast series called "The Quiet Village Podcast" and have recently put out your 100th recording, can you tell us a bit about how that started? 

Actually, the whole podcast show started as a technical exercise.  I'm a git of a computer geek as well.  I wanted to see if I could technically create a podcast with the RSS feed.  The recording wasn't an issue, as I am also an audio engineer.  The RSS feed programming was the challenge.  It turned out not to be as hard as I thought.  But when planning it, the obvious choice of topic was Exotica and Tiki culture in general.  I never thought I'd see 100 episodes, but here I am and still going.  To be honest, at the time I started the podcast in 2008 there wasn't any Tiki music out there on the internet, except for one guy--Vegas Vic.  I loved his podcast and internet radio station.  He disappeared right before I started mine, so I kinda think that I took up where Vegas Vic left off.

3. There was a Felonious Monk remix of the famous track "Exotica" in your mix, do you have many remixes or covers in your library? And how do you feel about classics being sampled, covered or remixed?

I absolutely love the Felonious Monk remix of "Exotica".  I found it quite by accident on YouTube.  I have a few remixed Exotica tunes, but they are sadly very few and far between.  There is a band called Monster Rally that uses sample mashups of old Exotica and Hawaiian records in many of their tunes.  But to be honest, remixes of Exotica are rare.  I'm a big fan of remixes and mashups. I also love ambient and chill beats as well. To me, Exotica is the ambient-chill of its day.  I really enjoy the creativity of artists who can take something old and make it new.  I hope that more remix artists will look to Exotica.  For me, it's an untapped genre.

One thing I think is important to understand is that Exotica and Tiki bars in the 60's were pure escapists.  Escape from the very modernizing and rapidly changing world that was constantly under the theady of the Cold War.  Tiki bars and the Tiki lifestyle offered a chance to escape all that to a tropical paradise with no cares.  Today, I see the resurgence of Tiki having the same pull for similar reasons.   Especially with the last year+ of events, escaping to a tropical island where it is perpetually sunset, and a bare breasted beauty brings you your mai tai in a hammock on the beach isn't such a bad fantasy to pursue.

While I'm not a DJ in the sense that I try to meld beats together (Exotica rarely lends itself to that type of mixing), I hope you enjoy this little slice of paradise.  I hope it conjures up the same images for you as it does me--dimly lit thatch hut bars with the smell of rum and fresh but bamboo and every drink has a little umbrella in it. Cheers!

Paradisco 006 // Digitiki

Tribute 2012

ANGRY DUO - 'Lies' (C.Olson, Rob Strange 1983)

Played by Audrey Valentine on a MIDI keyboard hooked to a simple synth program I wrote in Python.

BP improv 2 Apr 11 2013

(letra de Hell Ravani - voz: Luciana Lazulli)

Eu sou um antissocial sentimental 
nao acho todo mundo interessante ou legal
os manos falam que sou pessimista
mas na verdade mesmo acho que sou um budista

A gente quer se rotular
Antes de aprender a andar
Minha vontade eh propria, 
mas nao pode me representar
O autoconhecimento 
Comeca e termina dentro
De meu breve desenvolvimento

mano arthur mano arthur
sabe tudo dos outros e nada de tu
mano arthur mano arthur
se fecha demais e parece um tatu

Eu sou  um antissocial sentimental
nao acho que tudo vale a pena,
principalmente se a alma for pequena 
um fulano indelicadamente anormal

Tenho preguica de interagir
nao vou ser agradavel por educacao
ou pra fazer rir
nem colecionar amigos sem nocao
so pra competir

 A mente que mente
Quer suprimir o desejo latente
De ser autosuficiente
Ou talvez seja mais uma mentira
Dessa essencia suja e traira
Dentro de mim e da minha pira

mano arthur mano arthur
teve algumas amantes e ficava nu
mano arthur mano arthur
nao lia quadrinhos e nem era otaku

A arte eh o paliativo da dor de ser 
de existir e de crescer
Ja suprimir aquele desejo que nunca chega
se chama prazer
Porque quem nao sabe ser triste 
nao sabe ser feliz também

Eh preciso  o equilibrio
entre o mal e o bem
Quem quer alegria o tempo inteiro
Nao consegue’evitar a desilusao 
E eh por isso que quem ama’  a liberdade
Ama tambem a solidao

mano arthur mano arthur
quem sabe demais ta sempre em dejavu
mano arthur mano arthur
as vezes arrogante mas nao luta kung fu.

Animal Antissocial (em Bohlen-Pierce)

Quero estar presente na Dança do Saddam
Você que experimente a Dança do Saddam
O Temer tá maduro pra Dança do Saddam

Tem Sanjamba Artista na Dança do Saddam
O Trump já tá Putin com a Dança do Saddam

Oi, eu quero um
pra dançar o Ziriguidoom

Pernóstica Zazu faz a Dança do Saddam
Juca do Caju faz a Dança do Saddam

Encontrei o Shiva na Dança do Saddam
Queime o carma aqui com a Dança do Saddam.

Dança do Saddam 1o Take (em Bohlen-Pierce)

Trilha sonora do filme de Piqueras Carango, "Desde que não se fale nada sobre isso".

Qual a representatividade da Internet? - Instrumental em Bohlen-Pierce.

BIAB demo of RP-walz.sty
Ray Price shuffle waltz, for a song like “24th hour”.

24th Hour RP-walz

Classical/Broadway show music played on a pedal steel guitar

Something's Coming (From West Side Story)

Tikiyaki Orchestra. 8 string C6th with the 5th on top.

Sneaky Tiki

I'm new to home recording, so this is just an experiment. Done with BIAB and played on E9 tuning pedal steel. I would normally play a song like this on C6 tuning, but this was a challenge to just use 2+2 and two fingerpicks and a Thumb. (the last few bars I add my ring finger an a couple more KLs. ..I also didn't use the low strings on my Extended E9) I have a ways to go, but I'm having fun getting techno headaches.....

24th Hour RP-walz

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