| Opihi Pickers All For You |
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| 1) Meant To Be 2) What Did I Do? 3) When Eye Meets Eye 4) Ever Since 5) Every Love Song 6) All For You 7) Girl Can I |
8) Remember
When? |
Product Description
The Opihi Pickers – Imua Garza, brother Hoku Garza,
cousin Kahele Morales, Kevin Okimoto
and Shawn Ishimoto – exploded onto the local music scene following
the release in October
of 2001 of their 2nd album, Beginnings. Hits from the album such
as Old Fashion Touch and Victim
soon became local radio staples, launching the group into the local music
mainstream.
Like Beginnings, their new All For You album
offers the listener many songs of optimism, hope
and innocence. The album begins with the exuberant passion of Meant to
Be, which includes some of
Imua’s most charming lyrics, "I smile when I sleep, Because I
think of you, I dream that when you sleep
you are smiling too." This yearning can also be heard in the playful,
When Eye Meets Eye, the
Paul McCartney/Wings-esqe Ever Since, the whimsical Destiny
and the smooth groove
of the title song.
But there is also innocence lost here. The singer’s
stunned rejection in What Did I Do? is
dramatically underscored by the controlled dynamics of the band. The sad
loss expressed
in Remember When? is beautifully conveyed by Kevin’s vocals
– a song which Kevin says
reminds him of how he felt after losing his beloved mother. In the song,
I’ll Be Around –
has the singer found a lost love or is he in a fantasy obsessing over a
complete stranger?
The project ends with two tracks of purpose. The beautiful
instrumental Cristofori’s Dream
was a piece of music taught to Imua on the piano by one of his closest friends.
It was important
to Imua to include this piece of music as a remembrance for his lost friend.
One of Seven
began as a poem written by Hoku, Imua and Kahale’s Aunty Monica for
her brother Wayne,
a retired Honolulu police officer, stricken with terminal cancer. Imua was
given the heartfelt
poem and brought it to the studio where he set music to it. It was performed
at Uncle Wayne’s
funeral just a few weeks later. The version of One of Seven heard
on All For You is the
original demo recorded for the project. It didn’t feel right to change
it.