Label: Lehua Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 790474044722
EAN: 0790474044722
ASIN: B000001056
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Artist:
Marlene Sai
Label: Lehua Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 790474044722 EAN: 0790474044722 ASIN: B000001056 Release Date: 1998-05-19 |
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Great material, poor CD.......2003-08-07
I can't complain about the music. Marlene Sai has an old-school voice that is beautiful and very effective. Her songs are an excellent collection of traditional Hawaiian songs. The musical arrangements are hard to describe - chamber-poppish, perhaps? However you describe the arrangements, they're light, they're pleasant, they use a lot of xylophones, and they let her rich voice stand out in the song.
So if I have no complaints about the music, I do have a complaint about the CD's sound. It just wasn't mastered well at all. It must have been recorded off a 2" tape that was lying around in somebody's attic - there's a very large amount of tape hiss, and even the occasional warble. It's worse than a cassette tape. I wish the original source had been cleaned up with a computer or equalizer.
It's still worth getting the album, but if you have a record player and live in Hawai'i or the SF Bay Area, I'd recommend digging around in used-record stores and finding the original LP's, rather than getting this CD.
Music CD:
Music CD
The Colour of Spring ~ Talk Talk
Battle of the Birds ~ Anthony Phillips
The Selfish Mirror ~ Vanishing Kids
Geld und Mehr ~ Ragga Fraenkie
Double Feature: The Dirty Dozen (1967 Film) / Dirty Dingus Magee (1970 Film) ~ Frank DeVol , Jeff Al