MIKE HANAPI WITH KALAMAS QUARTET - s/t LP Folk Rock It’s also really easy to

It’s also really easy to tell that these guys love their noise and dissonance with noise on just about every track as well as with a noise only track “French Kissing Alexander Hamilton” that gets a heavily distorted beat going with glitches and swells thrown in to berate your ears

The opening bass line of "Water" sets a definitive melodic mood over which aquatic textures wash in and out and inevitably set sail on staccato squelches

“singing their songs

With its array of field recordings

yet offering up hope with the dreamy vocals and effect-heavy chiming guitars

MIKE HANAPI WITH KALAMAS QUARTET - s/t LP Folk Rock It’s also really easy toMike Hanapi was a brilliant steel guitarist and vocalist from Honolulu, whose recordings with Kalamas Quartet and the Ilima Islanders remain among the highest peaks of early 20th century Hawaiian music. Truly peaceful, tranquil and unique. Hanapis gorgeous falsetto voice is backed by lush harmony vocals, like a lonesome yodel floating above an oceanside choir. The purely acoustic instrumentation of lap steel guitars, ukeleles and harp guitars weaves