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This Is Love

Call Me

We Be All Africans

Silent Days

Clarion Call

Traponga

Epiphany

Rhapsody In Berlin

Hawaiian funk rare groove from the Home Grown II LP, released on KKUA Records in Hawaii, 1977.

Nohelani Cypriano -Lihue-

Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC

El Is A Sound Of Joy (OVC Session)

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A year end present for everyone! 
read below for more info -- Agor & Ra *_*

2014 led Blue Hawaii around the world. Over multiple visits to Russia, China/SE Asia, Mexico, Japan, Europe and the US, it felt like everything was coming up opposite Untogether, the album we made. Instead of being secluded in a Montreal apartment writing a fragmented break-up record, we were travelling vast distances, rediscovering each other as close friends and tying together radically different cultures. Our music came to reflect that. Live, everything sounded more together and higher energy than the record in an effort to find common ground with all those different audiences. 

It's the end of the year, so to commemorate the global underground touring we did— to all the people who were interested in coming to and putting on a Blue Hawaii show in Bangkok or Vilnius— we decided to put together a free mixtape of edits —  somewhere between the dreamy record and the banging live show. 

In 2015, Ra will focus on her other band, BRAIDS, who have just completed a beautiful, deeply emotional, new record which I am very excited to see come into the world. I will use what I’ve learnt this year DJing and roaming the earth to produce more music this winter —  planning on releasing material in a similar vein to this mixtape and hitting SXSW this March as DJ Blue Hawaii.. holding down the fort until Ra and I can record another album…   something 4 y’all to look forward to! ---;)  Agor (the boy in Blue Hawaii)

Enjoy! 


All Of My Heart

Tender Leaf - Countryside Beauty

Opening track from the highly anticipated reissue of Mike Lundy's 1980 LP, The Rhythm Of Life. 

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Mike Lundy "Love One Another"

Taken from 'Aloha Got Soul'
Out February 19th 2016 on Strut
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New Strut Records compilation documenting the vibrant soul, AOR, jazz funk and disco scene across Hawaii in 1979-1985. Despite great musicianship and high quality studios, many of the recordings never made it to the mainland. Compiler Roger Bong of Aloha Got Soul brings together 16 rare tracks on one album for the first time.

One of the leading bands from Hawaii's 1970s scene, Aura rose through the ranks in military clubs and similar venues. A family band consisting of eight siblings at its core, by the mid-1970s they had become the first local group to perform at the hottest disco in town, The Point After, where they remained the club’s headlining act for the next 10 years. 

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Aloha Got Soul

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Aura - Yesterday's Love [from Aloha Got Soul]

Taken from 'Aloha Got Soul'
Out March 18th 2016 on Strut
Order: https://lnk.to/AlohaGotSoulSo

New Strut Records compilation documenting the vibrant soul, AOR, jazz funk and disco scene across Hawaii in 1979-1985. Despite great musicianship and high quality studios, many of the recordings never made it to the mainland. Compiler Roger Bong of Aloha Got Soul brings together 16 rare tracks on one album for the first time.

“I was out in Venice with DJ Harvey," says Mark Barrott, "and "Kona Winds" came on the radio whilst we were sat by the beach having breakfast, looking at the early-morning surfers. I actually rang US directory assistance for the first and last time in my life to get the number of the station to get a track ID. I NEVER get bored of the spoken intro; last summer I was a little worse for wear in the middle of a DJ set by Es Vedra and I just looped the spoken intro and left it running for 30 mins… it sounded fine to me.”

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Marvin Franklin With Kimo And The Guys - Kona Winds

The Magic Of The Blue: Greatest Hits

Welcome to the Club

Sun Ra - Take The A Train

We're Ready!

Space Is the Place (For Sun Ra)

The Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra at WUHY, 1978

Love in Outer Space (with Ra interview)

Solo Keyboard Minnesota 1978

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Crumar synth)

The Hawaiian version of Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Sparkle” was recorded by disco-soul group Greenwood in 1985. Greenwood started in 1972 as a group of 9th graders at Kaimuki High School. The guys are alive and performing today in Hawaii. Their main gig? Probably the 70s Night Club Reunion, a popular concert series that reunites well-known bands from Oahu’s disco days

Sparkle

Sparkle   GREENWOOD

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