Another Lecuona, Another Classic

The Breeze and I by Kahuna Kawentzmann artwork

The Breeze and I is now available here (as usual in the highest possible LAME-MP3 encoding), at CD-Baby, Amazon MP3 and at iTunes. Tell me how you like the overall sound, if you may. And if you’d prefer another format for download please tell me, too.

New Single! Yaqui Joe

This melodramatic piece came together with Stratocaster/echo sound and strings and all kinds of theatrical stuff. This is the first mix in that video. The 2012 mix is the one for sale here and in various download stores. Buy right here in my online store!

Update!
Now also available at the iTunes Store (also August 1st scheduled at CD-Baby)

290 Years ago Today Easter Island was “Discovered”

The culture was already in a state of decline. I find this text by Jared Diamond on the topic very interesting.

I suspect, though, that the disaster happened not with a bang but with a whimper. After all, there are those hundreds of abandoned statues to consider. The forest the islanders depended on for rollers and rope didn’t simply disappear one day-it vanished slowly, over decades. Perhaps war interrupted the moving teams; perhaps by the time the carvers had finished their work, the last rope snapped. In the meantime, any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would have been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation.

Here’s the full text: Jared Diamond, Easter Island’s End