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1-2 Weeks
01. HAKU - Introduction
02. HAKU - Hawaii Pono'i (Hawaii's Own)
03. HAKU - Kapu
04. HAKU - (Story) King Kal. and Mr. Emp.
05. HAKU - Manok
06. HAKU - Japanese narration: poetic excerpts from "For Me, the Rays of the Sun"
07. HAKU - Eia Wau, Halekala (I am Haleakala, House of the Sun)
08. HAKU - Mai Opio, Mai Ka Makua
09. HAKU - Na'u, Ke Kukuna O Ka La
10. HAKU - Ho'omana'o (Remember Song)
11. HAKU - Mamina (Regretful)
ARTIST
TITLE
Na Mele A Ka Haku (Music of Haku)
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1136CD EM 1136CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/27/2015

Synthesizers and the human voice. Hawaii. The 1970s. Haku, aka Frank Tavares, a writer and musician, had a deep respect for the multiethnic character of his native Hawaii, and composed a number of theater pieces and songs to highlight this culture. However, he avoided many of the standard musical tropes, choosing to build his own studio and make all the music on synthesizers, a first for Hawaii. New age musical elements, traditional Hawaiian music, and unclassifiable madness, all played on glorious analog synths, are the foundation for songs and stories delivered in Hawaiian, Japanese, and English, reflecting Hawaii's multiethnic nature. Developed and recorded over several years, released in 1975 on vinyl, and woefully hard to find, it is now reissued for the first time.