| Kawaihae Kawaihae |
Group of the Year |
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| Track Listing: (click links for audio samples) | |||||||||||||
| 1) Volcano 2) Kona Skies 3) Just To Be With You 4) One For The Bottle 5) She Go |
6) Message
In A Bottle |
Product Description
Kawaihae's debut album Kawaihae is almost like a showcase
of Hawaii's top artists and hit
makers. Aside from the amazing performances of Jeff, Vance, Scott and Jimbo,
you can hear
a wealth of talent of the Island's best. Guest artists include: former percussionist
for Pure Heart
and Colon – Lopaka Colon (on 9 tracks on the album!), Herb Ohta Jr.
(on Small Kid Days),
and former Hapa lead vocalist - Keli'i Kaneali'I (on Falling In Love).
Hawaii's top producers and hit makers mixed every song on the album. They
include: Steve Kramer
(Pure Heart and many others) - mixing Volcano and Small Kid Days; Kenneth
Makuakane (Na Leo
and many others) - mixing Just To Be With You, One For The Bottle and Falling
In Love;
Tim Young (Cecilio and Kapono and many others) - mixing Kona Skies and Sumo
Man;
Gaylord Holomalia (Kalapana, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and many others) - mixing
Message In A Bottle and Million.
The album went through many phases. Our first demos for the album was submitted
in November
of 2001. We recorded 16 rough demos for our producer George Cockle to hear.
From the 16 we
picked 9 songs to record on the album. The 10th song (Message In A Bottle)
was decided later.
The first song we recorded was Kona Skies. It was recorded in December 2001.
This song
was to be featured on a popular compilation album, but we did not meet the
deadline therefore
it was not included. However it turned out for the better, because we had
the opportunity to
remix the song to our liking. Tim Young added his magic to the tune and
it turned out pretty cool.
From there we concentrated our efforts to recording the other songs from
Feb 2002 to April 2002.
We spent almost every weekend for two months in the studio. A lot of hard
work and long
hours went into the recording, but we all enjoyed the process.
Once all the tracks were recorded, we sent the data to Hawaii to be mixed,
and to have the
additional tracks added. We were definitely blessed to have Hawaii's best
help us out on this
album. Everyone was so cooperative and enthusiastic to help us out. They
all showed us the
true meaning of Aloha. Mahalo - Steve, Kenneth, Tim, Gaylord, Lopaka, Herb
Jr., and Keli'i.
From there it was just a matter of finding people to distribute the album
and of course getting
radio airplay. The first stations to play our music in Japan include InterFM
and FM Yokohama.
Mahalo nui loa, and thank you so much to all the other radio stations, producers,
directors,
and everyone also who support our music.