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Kailua Moon Porch Sessions • Sunshine On My Shoulders

By: John Denver

Mahalo for all the love for our porch session videos. We love making them. It’s even better when we have our friends over. Thank you to the guys for always being down to show up and jam.

Danny is a big time John Denver fan and was stoked to cover this song with a whole band. Let us know what song to cover next! We would love to try and make a video out of it!

Vocals/Guitar: @dannykihoalu
Vocals: @nani__carvalho
Bass: @wil_tafolo_music
Drums: @mlsmoothy
Pedal Steel Guitar: @jonnypartys
Electric Guitar: @paulkalikohou

#johndenver @johndenvermusic #hawaiimusicians #hawaii #music #oahu

Kailua Moon Porch Sessions • Blue Bayou

By: Roy Orbison and Joe Melson

All of this is recorded live and just having a good time with friends. Mistakes & All 😂Mahalo to @oliviazheng06 for being our sound engineer for the day and to @jonnypartys for playing with us for the first time on the porch.

Mahalo again to our friends for taking the time to set up and jam. Hope you enjoy our version of "Blue Bayou".

Vocals: @nani__carvalho
Acoustic Guitar/ Vocals: @dannykihoalu
Bass/Vocals: : @wil_tafolo_music
Drums: @mlsmoothy
Pedal Steel Guitar: @jonnypartys
Electric Guitar: @paulkalikohou

#bluebayou #oahu #hawaii #hawaiimusicians #cover

The next Musician's Lounge is two weeks away!

Our featured artist is multi-instrumentalist, Girish Varma. With house band @jonnypartys and @alikalyman

A rare occasion that each of our band members are also guitarist's/bassist's on this one 🎸

Mahalo to everyone who's been coming out and jammin with us 🙏 big S/O to @plantoemcafe for hosting every month 🌱 💜 🌱

@___floessence will be there for all your fragrant needs 🕯️

📍 @plantoemcafe • 7pm

See you there!

#musician #jam #honolulu

The next Musician's Lounge is two weeks away!

Our featured artist is multi-instrumentalist, Girish Varma. With house band @jonnypartys and @alikalyman

A rare occasion that each of our band members are also guitarist's/bassist's on this one 🎸

Mahalo to everyone who's been coming out and jammin with us 🙏 big S/O to @plantoemcafe for hosting every month 🌱 💜 🌱

@___floessence will be there for all your fragrant needs 🕯️

📍 @plantoemcafe • 7pm

See you there!

#musician #jam #honolulu

The next Musician's Lounge is two weeks away!

Our featured artist is multi-instrumentalist, Girish Varma. With house band @jonnypartys and @alikalyman

A rare occasion that each of our band members are also guitarist's/bassist's on this one 🎸

Mahalo to everyone who's been coming out and jammin with us 🙏 big S/O to @plantoemcafe for hosting every month 🌱 💜 🌱

@___floessence will be there for all your fragrant needs 🕯️

📍 @plantoemcafe • 7pm

See you there!

#musician #jam #honolulu

I was going to post a video of me lighting a fart on fire but the trades are back and I’m wearing board shorts (🔥hazard)

Honeyfinger’s Steel Guitar Spectacular
at the Green Lady Cocktail Bar 8-10p
White Sands Hotel
431 Nohonani street
Waikiki
Thank you to @strange.friends for the flyer!

An improvising trio made up of Jonny Lam on guitars, Randy Wong on bass and myself on drums, will be playing at the Curb Kaimuki on Thursday November 20th from 7 PM to 9 PM. Free!
We will be playing music from our imaginary album, Folk Melodies From The Mountains of Mars.
This is gonna be fun; maybe meaningful.
And it’s free! And in a neighborhood type spot! Easy.

Our endeavors will be completely improvised; made up on the spot.
My personal, and frankly, life long efforts, are to share some authentic emotions, pychic states, through sound.

@jonnypartys @wongaliu @thecurbkaimuki #jazzwrestling #punkjazz #goodtunesgonewrong #theweirdandwonderful #boozerandchicken
#honolulumusicscene #oahumusic #hawaiimusicians #oahulife #hawaiilife #hawaiiart #hawaiiartist
#experimentalmusic #freeimprovisation #freejazz #jazz

Tennesse to Hawaii✈️
Recorded this song in Nashville and tracked the pedal steel in Honolulu. Did we know that the steel guitar originated in Hawaii? It might be one of my favorite instruments to track. It’s like slicing through a tune in all the right ways.
Can’t wait for you to hear the finish on 11•21•25
“What I Call Living”

#tennessee #nashville #hawaii #honolulu #countrymusic #steelguitar

Some version of Honeyfingers is making its Hawaii debut this at the Green Lady cocktail room speakeasy in Waikiki, Tuesday, November 4th.Eric Nakamoto will be joining me on bass as I dig into the ol book and play some sweet steel for you! Beautiful flyer by @strange.friends

Be there, friends. #honolululivemusic #thebevy #originalsandcovers

We got to celebrate Henry Kapono Foundation month, a growing HKF organization, the brand new Home In The Islands series AND the man himself last night! Happy birthday Uncle Henry!

Broken Cassette, Vol. 1

Featuring @jessica_ackerley , @gahlord , @floteson , @maxhigh01 , @illnomadic , @jonnypartys and @laritzalabouche

All the album’s tracks were composed over an identical drone, which was created by using a few analog synth modules and then recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder.

None of the artists involved heard each other’s work during the course of production, so the resulting album was a surprise to everyone involved. A bit like variations on a theme, a bit like exquisite corpse.

On Side One the music ranges from Jonny’s psychedelic-ambient steel guitar exploration, to Max’s shimmering, flute-driven meditation with Floteson, and ends with Illnomadic’s minimalist, hip-hop inflected ode to a tree planted by Queen Lili’uokalani.

Side Two opens with a floating neo-soul chordal figure by Floteson, and a guitar improvisation for his late, jazz-trumpeter father. The drone continues into T.J.’s classically influenced reverie for solo piano (recorded on the gorgeous Yamaha grand at Island Sound Studios by the legendary Gaylord Holomalia). The album closes with Jessica Ackerley eschewing her guitar for the open space of field recordings and subtle sonic manipulations of the drone itself.

Gahlord created a number of pieces he describes as etudes, using command-line tools to randomly concatenate different length segments of the drones, mimicking old school tape processes. These serve as interstitial bridges between the tracks — on the cassette, they turn each side into one seamless experience (the digital version plays as discrete tracks).

It seemed only appropriate to honor the origin of the project by releasing a limited number of cassette tapes.

Coming September 26 on cassette and all streaming platforms

Pre-orders available now at loihirecords.com and loihirecords.bandcamp.com

Music: “Tidelines” by Floteson

New Release

Broken Cassette, Vol. 1 is a compilation album featuring @jessica_ackerley , @gahlord , @floteson , @maxhigh01 , @illnomadic , @jonnypartys , and @laritzalabouche .

Each artist composed their contribution incorporating the same drone — one created using a vintage four-track cassette recorder. The results are as varied and surprising as their talents.

The album will be available on all streaming platforms and in physical form — as a limited-edition cassette — Friday September 26.

This reel features video from Gahlord Dewald’s “Holoholo”, underscored by an excerpt from Jonny Lam’s track, “Is That a Caterpillar?”.

Album drops: Friday, 09/26
Live performance at @capitolmodern : Saturday, 09/27 from 2-4pm

Last minute show added! Excited to play duo with the amazing @jonnypartys Jonny Lam on guitar. Seating is limited in this very intimate space so reserve your seats now.

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