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Is this the first cocktail blog I mention here? Hard to believe. This link goes to the receipes tagged Tiki. Obviously Beachbum Berry is a contributor.
I’m a really unlucky fela with my internet service provider (Freenet). Since about a month or so I can’t listen to Luxuriamusic.com anymore. I can tune-in via iTunes as usual, but the stream re-loads at least every 20 seconds. It’s insane. I would do everything I can to support them, except report on shows I have heard – just because that’s not possible for me anymore… They have such great people, who really are into the best music that deserves a place in the spotlights, if not the sun.
If somebody in Germany still can get their program as before, I would be really interested in the kind of connection that you have. Please, please leave a comment here and help me find out what’s wrong. Possibly it’s iTunes, maybe I can listen via VLC Player or something else? I’d appreciate any helpful advice or even just an explanation why I’m having this annoying tech problem.
Here’s the latest news from Luxuriamusic.com (for those happy people who can get it alright):
Had he not passed away earlier this month, Louis Teicher would have turned 84 on Aug. 24. In this Sunday’s special Beyondophonic Action Hour, F&T’s long-time manager Scott W. Smith will join your host Tothar to celebrate Mr. Teicher’s legacy.
Via phone, Scott will share swell stories about the twin piano team, including an inside scoop on the duo’s dazzlingly visionary and futuristic ‘prepared piano’ recordings. (Tothar sez, ‘Ten of the most uniquely innovative, ingenious LPs ever made.’) Tothar and Smith will also share some of the F&T tracks that most left them awestruck.PLUS, the Lux F&T memorial extends at 8pm PST/11:00pm EST with a rebroadcast of a 2001 LuxuriaMusic interview with Ferrante & Teicher conducted by The Millionaire!
Check out http://www.luxuriamusic.com for some jaw-dropping YouTube footage of F&T performing their ‘prepared’ technique live on the Ernie Kovacs Show. Remember yesterday’s Sound of Tomorrow this Sunday night at 7:00 PST/ 10:00 EST on LuxuriaMusic Internet Radio! Please spread the word to anyone you think should know about it! – Michael ‘Tothar’ Toth
The exhibition I wrote about in the early days of this blog is now partially online. I like that!
visit Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific
The thing I like about old surf instrumentals is that it was all about the theme. Strong themes carried it.c
Slacktone Interview
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Legendary Surfers made me aware of the Wax Cylinder Preservation Project, which features many a hawaiian recording from back in the days.
Hawaiian Guitar cylinders
Ukulele cylinders
Xylophone cylinders
Marimba cylinders
Hawaii topic cylinders
while we’re at it:
Japanese cylinders
Guitar cylinders
And they sent this article right along, which describes the dawn of modern surfing in the islands, in the 1910s.
Atomic Cocktail At 40: Fit, Trim & Brimming With Bossness!
Time has certainly crept up on Atomic Cocktail. The popular online radio show celebrates its 40th episode this Wednesday, August 6, with a plethora of pop, soul and rock ’n’ roll. The all-live extravaganza gets under way at 6 p.m. California time at Luxuriamusic. Join resident mixologist Vic Tripp as he counts down the Frostbite 5000 (“the coolest records ever made”), reads your personal dedications and spins more songs about love, dancing, protest and pro wrestling. Re-rebroadcast Saturday, August 9, from 2 to 3 p.m. Forty: It’s the new twenty.
from LuxuriaMusic
Darrell Brogdon writes:
To celebrate the 500th broadcast of The Retro Cocktail Hour, Kansas Public Radio presents Waitiki, the Boston-based tiki-tainment band, in concert at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall.
It’ll be an exotic, once-in-a-lifetime South Pacific sound adventure like no other, featuring classic music by Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Robert Drasnin, Augie Colon, Gene Rains and others, plus original tunes by the band. Besides the unforgettable music, there’ll be a full service Tiki bar and a dance floor, so come early and party all night!
go to the Retro Cocktail Hour website here
Virani from Paris has a nice Flickr photostream with pics form Berlin Wassermusik 08 here.