Release Date: August 18, 2009 (In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Hawai’i's Statehood)
Adventures in Paradise, the debut album by The WAITIKI 7, is a contemporary re-imagining of the classic Exotica sound introduced on the islands in 1959 the year of Hawaii’s statehood. Martin Denny, a transplanted mainland pianist who tapped into the tropical zeitgeist, stirred together several disparate elements, and created a whole new sound in the process.“Exotica floats in the zone between soundscapes and an early world music hybrid,” Randy Wong, the bassist, music director and co-founder of The WAITIKI 7, rxplains.
