Post #609247 by emspace on Thu, Oct 6, 2011 9:38 AM

Sounds gorgeous, mahalo for the heads up! I'd heard of her through her work with Keola Beamer, this is different for sure. And yeah, I could go on all day about what has happened to Hawaiian music...I've been to Jamaica twice, great place - with the third-highest murder rate in the world. Spent a lovely afternoon with a bunch of thugs who wanted to show me their gun collections (I'd been offered the services of a "guide", who ended up with $100 of my money for carrying my groceries part of the way up the beach, worth it to get rid of him and his demented buddies after hours and hours of wasted time) - never again.

What's my point? I guess maybe that Hawaiians don't understand Jamaica and should lay off the reggae. Hawaiian and Jamaican culture couldn't be more different. Whadda they think, they both live on islands so that gives them a lot in common? Wrong! Jamaica is all about parasitic hustling, you can forget about any kind of aloha. Still, I am an old reggae fan, it's a very vital and deep music and what inspired me to visit in the first place. "Jawaiian" - what a sad joke. Sorry for the downer comment, but lame, watered-down reggae will never find a place in my collection. SO glad there are still people like Raiatea holding fast to the roots.