Album Tracks:

1. Mona Lisa
2. Kaleohano
3. 'Ulili E
4. Medley:  Hanohano Wale No Na Cowboy/Ka Huila Wai
5. Hi'ilawe
6. Henehene Kou 'Aka
7. Medley:  Ahi Wela/Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
8. 'Opae E
9. Starting All Over Again
10. Over the Rainbow
11. Panini Puakea
12. La 'Elima
13. In This Life
14. "Oxygen"

"Two classic greatest hits compilations re-released in compact disc document the history of one of the seminal groups of the Hawaiian Renaissance. The discs are available separately, and each contains a cross-section of material from the groups' landmark Hula Records albums of the late-60s; Hawaiian music fans will want to collect both." – John Berger, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12/18/88

Album Tracks:

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1. Kawika
2. Uwe Ka Wao
3. 'Ohi'a Hua Palaku
4. Only You
5. Sunday Manoa
6. Maika'i Ka Makani O Kohala
7. Pua Tuberose
8. Kalakaua
9. Kaulana Kawaihae
10. Heha Waipi'o

"The Sunday Manoa philosophy has been simple enough: Take some modern influences, blend with the traditional, serve with sizzle and style. Gather musicians of diverse skills and artistry, and you get a hybrid. In the annals of Hawaiian music, The Sunday Manoa clearly can be credited with providing the roots for the renaissance among the young music-makers.

This compilation is a brief examination of earlier moments and imprints placed on the musical landscape. Sometimes you have to look back and appreciate history, to see and shape the future." – Wayne Harada, Entertainment Editor, The Honolulu Advertiser

 "The Best of The Sunday Manoa, Volume II" features Peter Moon, The Cazimero Brothers, Palani Vaughan, Cyril and Bla Pahinui, and Albert "Baby" Kalima, Jr.

Album Titles:

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1. He Hawai'i Au
2. Kapalaoa
3. Kaulana 'O Waimanalo
4. Wai O Minihaha
5. Ka Lai Opua
6. Ka Moa'e
7. Lei Ona Ona
8. Kaikai Waimea
9. Poli Pumehana
10. Akaka Falls
    
    

"Center Stage" is multi-talented and multi award-winning, Nathan Aweau's debut CD. Nine original songs (including two he co-wrote) and four definitive covers highlight his musical range. Reggae, hip-hop, romantic ballads, rock, inspirational, Hawaiian and jazz - it's all here. Armed with liner notes from the "Godfather of Hawaiian Soul" – Don Ho, Nathan, a longtime studio musician finally takes center stage...

Album Titles:

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1. Latitu
2. All This Time
3. My Heart
4. What I've Been Goin' Through
5. Take My Hand
6. Don Ho Shuffle
7. Maui Smiles
8. Hawaii Aloha/Rising Sun
9. Is it Love
10. Cisco Kid
11. Open Your Eyes
12. Goin' Home
13. Talk with Me, Waikiki
    
    

Album Tracks:

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1. Hawai'i '78 (Introduction)
2. Ka Huila Wai
3. 'Ama 'ama
4. Panini Pua Kea
5. Take Me Home Country Road
6. Kuhio Bay
7. Ka Pua U'i
8. White Sandy Beach of Hawai'i
9. Henehene Kou 'Aka
10. La 'Elima
11. Pili Me Ka'u Manu
12. Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man
13. Kaulana Kawaihae
14. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
15. Hawaii '78

According to ancient Hawaiian oral history, the island of Moloka‘i is the birthplace of hula. John Ka‘imikaua – noted Hawaiian scholar, singer, composer and kumu hula (hula instructor), has spent a quarter century preserving the undocumented history of pre-Western Moloka‘i through numerous activities including cultural workshops, film, the annual celebration and his halau (dance academy).

Some songs on "From Deep Within..." were written to preserve ancient mo‘olelo (stories), place names and mana‘o (thoughts); other compositions were born of personal and reflective moments; still others capture moments in time of the halau. All were infused with love and the spirit of Hawaiian culture, expressed in music.

The 24-page booklet that accompanies each CD, documents – for the first time ever – many elements of the ancient history of Moloka‘i.

Album Titles:

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1. He Kama A Hina
2. Kaulana Wale No 'O Moloka'i
3. Dreary Afternoon
4. Hilo I
5. Hilo II
6. Rain
7. Ka Beauty Poepoe Lani
8. Sugar Mila
9. Fly Away
10. Hale Likikini
11. Hope for Morning Soon
12. 'Alohilohi 'O Ka La
13. Kahuna 'Ana'ana
14. Wil's Song
15. Ka'ana
    

"The Sunday Manoa didn't intend to start a revolution. But when the group released "Guava Jam" in 1969, it did." – Honolulu Magazine, June, 2004

"Guava Jam" introduced a trio of musicians that have been called the "Fathers of Contemporary Hawaiian Music" – Peter Moon, and brothers, Robert and Roland Cazimero, collectively known as The Sunday Manoa.

The album's liner notes say: "Listen, as The Sunday Manoa wrestles with the roots of a musical heritage that goes back hundreds of years, while trying to bind together yesterday and today with dignity and style." By combining traditional music and lyrics with musical innovation and their unique and energetic style, they reinvented the songs and left their imprint on Hawaiian music. This is the album that launched the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s. More recently, it was listed among the 50 Greatest Hawaiian Albums, compiled by a panel of judges for Honolulu Magazine.

Album Tracks:

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1. Kawika
2. Only You
3. Heha Waipi'o
4. Kaulana 'O Waimanalo
5. Ka'ililauokekoa
6. Mehameha
7. He Hawai'i Au
8. Maika'i Ka Makani O Kohala
9. Ka La'i Opua
10. Poli Pumehana
11. Guava Jam
    
    

Wayne Harada of The Honolulu Advertiser calls the music "Traditional Hawaiian performed with a contemporary twist." He goes on to say that "Lopaka (as Kaumakaiwa is widely known) has ancestral ties to island music; his great-grandmother was the eminent hula and chant chiefess, Edith Kanaka‘ole; his grandmother is Pualani Kanahele, revered kumu hula (hula master) and Hawaiiana expert; his mother is Kekuhi Kanahele, a distinguished singer-composer in her own right. So he has a lot of tradition to uphold, yet he is framing his own destiny with a style that bridges the past with the future." Harada goes on to declare this debut CD a "wondrous, satisfying excursion into (Lopaka's) ‘ohana (family)" and "a stunning debut," calling the artist "one to watch, now and in the future."

 Information concerning all the songs, and lyrics and translations for most, are included.

Album Titles:

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1. Kokolo Au I Hilo Hanakahi
2. Na Kulukulu Ka Nalu
3. Ali'i'aimokuoka'u
4. 'I'iwi Leo Kolonahe
5. Nani Ahiahi
6. Ke One Kaulana O Hawai'i
7. O Mai Hawai'i
8. Na Hilo
9. Ke 'Ala 'Ehu Kai O Hana
10. Mele Ha'i Kupuna
11. Hula Kolani/'O Lono 'Oe
    

“Loyal Garner was called ‘The Lady of Love’ for good reason – her music embodied goodness, her performance radiated with heartfelt emotion, her voice projected the aloha from the heart. She may be gone, but her legacy is the vast riches of song that continues to tick like a heartbeat within us all.” – Wayne Harada, The Honolulu Advertiser

Loyal’s fans have requested that we re-issue “Hawai‘i Today” in CD format and we are happy to comply. Although she left us all too soon, at the age of 55, we have her music to remind us of her stellar career, her moving stories told through song, the contemporary flair she brought to Hawaiian favorites, and her exceptional showmanship – her smile, that voice, fingers “tickling the ivories,” the banter, and most of all, the love she shared with her audiences.

Lyrics and translations are included for the four Hawaiian language songs.

Album Tracks:

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1. Hawai'i Today
2. Maui Waltz
3. You Are the Sun, Hawai'i
4. Shores of Haleiwa
5. Morning Dew
6. City Lights
7. Hanalei Moon
8. Ka'aahi Kahului
9. Medley:  Iesu Me Ke Kanaka Waiwa/Just a Closer Walk With Thee
10. Hawai'i Aloha
    
    

Palani Vaughan has been known for so many years as a pioneer of modern Hawaiian nationalistic music, and most of all for the four "Ia ‘Oe E Ka La" albums he recorded in honor of King Kalakaua in the 1970s and early 1980s, that the music on this album will come as a surprise to anyone who knows him for only "Ia ‘Oe E Ka La."

Palani’s debut album, "Meet Palani Vaughan and The Sunday Manoa" [Hula Records, 1967], showed his strength as a contemporary Hawaiian artist, this one reinvented him as a potential successor to the late Alfred Apaka as a peerless romantic crooner of Hawaiian and hapa-haole classics set to sophisticated orchestral arrangements. Hawai‘i has changed tremendously since these recordings were made in 1970, but beautiful music is timeless,
and this album is a perfect antidote to the stress of living in modern, congested, over-built and over-developed Hawai‘i nei. 

Lyrics and translations for Hawaiian language songs are enclosed.

Album Tracks:

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1. Honolulu
2. Waikiki
3. South Sea Island Magic
4. My Little Grass Shack
5. 'Akaka Falls (Ka Wailele O 'Akaka)
6. Lovely Hula Hands
7. Kainoa
8. My Isle of Golden Dreams
9. Blue Hawai'i
10. Beyond the Reef
11. Kaua I Ka Huahua'i
12. Sweet Leilani
    
    

Another in the Hawaii Calls Collection is "Hawaiian Wedding Song – Songs  For A Hawaiian-Style Wedding" – a recording specifically designed for weddings, from procession to reception – and the memories they evoke. "Hawaiian Wedding Song" is a compilation of the most requested love songs and features the extraordinary vocal stylings of the stars of Hawaii Calls, all backed by the incomparable Hawaii Calls Orchestra and Chorus. It is the only recording available with both vocal and instrumental versions of the ever-popular "Hawaiian Wedding Song" ("Ke Kali Nei Au"). This recording also includes the "original" Hawaiian wedding song "Lei Aloha Lei Makamae" (Forevermore).

To assist you in planning your event, we've included the English lyrics of all of the wedding songs.

Album Tracks:

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1. Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au)
2. I'll Remember You
3. 'Mapuana
4. Paoakalani
5. Moon of Manakoora
6. Beautiful Kahana
7. Beyond the Reef
8. Lei Aloha, Lei Makamae (Forevermore)
9. Beyond the Rainbow
10. Sweet Leilani
11. 'Makalapua (Profuse Bloom)
12. Lovely Hula Hands
13. Pua Mae 'Ole
14. Hawaiian Wedding Song (Ke Kali Nei Au)
    

"Honihoni" features the popular Kona, Hawai‘i band Mele, G, & Company, past winners of Steinlager's Big Island Battle of the Bands. Lead singers Mele Delaries and Gerald Farm, Jr., (a.k.a. "G"), both from musical Island families, have paid their dues, entering - and often winning - karaoke competitions, including KHON-TV's Hawai`i Stars.

"Honihoni" introduces non-Kona party animals to three Island-flavored originals and seven spiced-up cover songs. "Mele, G, & Company's sound is a fresh mix of contemporary pop and island reggae that will have you up and dancing. The party starts here and now!" – John Burnett, "Island Beat," Hawai‘i Island Journal.

Album Tracks:

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1. Honihoni
2. Come Hula With Me
3. Push Push
4. Mr. Reggae (I Hear Music)
5. Lava Lava
6. Groovin'
7. Pretty Little Sugar Pie
8. I Can See Clearly Now
9. Under the Boardwalk
10. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
    
    

Here, on his debut recording, Keali‘i Blaisdell unveils twelve new Hawaiian compositions. Contemporary sounds blend with ancient themes in songs which express the depth and breadth of love for one another (kekahi i kekahi) and for the land (aloha ‘aina).

Hawaiian and English lyrics are included along with translations and detailed explanations.

Album Titles:

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1. Kipuka Ki
2. Ho'oheno Kalama'ula
3. For Only You
4. Wailuanuiaho'ano
5. My Baby Sleeps
6. Lei Wai'ale'ale
7. Ku'u Manu Hiwa
8. Still Be There
9. Ka Ulu Mae'ole
10. Eia Nei's
11. Makalei Nani
12. Mama, I Miss You
    

"Thoughtful, Expressive, and Timeless perfectly describe the music of Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner, Aaron J. Sala.

Album Tracks:

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1. HaleaLaka
2. Melekakepakepaaloha
3. Leiana'oMnoaikananionapua
4. Eho'ikealohaiRa'iatea
5. NaniKaluako'i
6. Ehuehumainei'oManoa
7. MyRomance
8. He'ono
9. 'A'oia
10. HanohanoManoa
11. Novaiteiereo
12. Ka'upualoha
    
    
    

Hula Records presents "Kamakele," the first solo effort by "Bulla" Kailiwai, 1997 winner of the Aloha Festival's Clyde "Kindy" Sproat Storytelling and Falsetto Singing Contest held each year on the Big Island. A well known Kona hula dancer, "Bulla"  is fast becoming known as a singer and songwriter. "Kamakele" showcases his beautiful falsetto voice as he performs his own compositions along side old favorites and previously unrecorded songs by former Miss Aloha Hula, Kealoha`aina Simeona. "Bulla" is backed by some of our state's finest musicians: Matt Manewa and Dwight Kanae (guitars), Kehau Tamure (upright bass), "Baba" Alimoot (electric bass), Greg Sardinha (steel guitar), Michael Lowe and slack-key master, Raymond Kane (slack-key guitars).

Album Titles:

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1. Chant:  He Oli Lei No Kamakele
2. Ka Nani O Na Pali
3. Honu
4. Ku'u Pua O Ke Aumoe
5. Honaunau Paka
6. Keolalaulani
7. Sweet Wehi O Samoa
8. Kahi Kapu O Ho'ona
9. 'Ano'i Pua
10. Hula O Makee
11. Mahalo E Hilo Hanakahi
12. Ku'u Manu Hoa Aloha
13. Kamakele
    

Album Tracks:

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1. Kawaipunahele
2. In My Life
3. Hanohano Ka Lei Pikake
4. If We Hold on Together
5. E Ho'i Ka Pili
6. Wanting Memories
7. Kauanoeanuhea
8. Ku'u Wehi O Ke Aumoe
9. 'Akaka Falls
10. Pua Mikinolia
11. Come Sail Away
12. He Mele Inoa No Kawaipunahele

Meet Akoni: Big Island chanter, kumu hula (hula instructor), song writer and winner of Aloha Festivals' Annual Kindy Sproat Falsetto Singing Contest. The story behind this album is extraordinary - a promise to his grandmother "Mama" in his youth that someday he'll record an album of their music.

Hear Hawaiian Falsetto sung Big Island style and follow along with the lyrics and translations that are provided for you.

Album Titles:

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1. Waipi'o
2. Kaulana Uapo O Hilo
3. Pua Loke
4. A Here to Aia Tumu
5. Aloha, My Love
6. Malihini O Waimea
7. Hawaiian Rumba
8. Wai'anapanapa
9. Mokuoeo
10. Kilakila 'O Maui
11. Kumu 'Ohi'a
12. Dreams/Hurt
    
    

The vocal ensemble Manoa Voices are the winners of the 2007 Ka Himeni Ana acoustic traditional Hawaiian vocal competition.  Its members are all University of Hawai‘i - Manoa student/musician/singers. Led by their teacher, Chadwick Pang, Mamina Koga, Rosanna Perch, Sophronia Smith and Justin Ka‘upu explore Hawaiian and Oceanic music. Former Royal Hawaiian Bandmaster, Aaron Mahi, says "The music of Manoa Voices reaches back to when the simplicity of the accompaniment was served in gentle portions, allowing the voices the liberty to delight and allure the listener on this aural voyage..."  If you're looking for a group that "captures the energy of Hawai‘i's youthful present by simultaneously bearing both mind and heart from its past – when Hawai‘i stood at the threshold of swing and rich harmonies – then look no further.  Eia ka mea waiwai no ‘ia (The value is here, right here)."

Album Tracks:

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1. E Nani E
2. Palisa
3. Pua Mae'ole
4. Beneath the Maori Moon
5. E Koa'e E
6. U'ilani
7. Te Atairangikaahu
8. Ka Ua Loku
9. Manu 'O'o
10. Manoa Te Manu
11. Aloha No
12. Ho'onani Ka Makua Mau (The Doxology)

The Sunday Manoa debuted in 1967 as a quartet featuring a young singer named Palani Vaughan, along with founding members, Peter Moon (‘ukulele and slack-key guitar), Cyril Pahinui (‘ukulele and slack-key guitar) and Albert "Baby" Kalima, Jr. (bass). Ranging in age from 18 -25, these young artists went on to become established musicians, each in their own right.

The music on this album represents the emergence of contemporary Hawaiian music and The Sunday Manoa would go on to become one of the main architects of the Hawaiian Renaissance. Palani Vaughan went on to become a pioneer of modern Hawaiian nationalistic music.

Song lyrics and translations are included.

Album Tracks:

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1. Kaulana Kawaihae
2. Lei Onaona
3. Sweet Lei Lehua
4. Kawohikukapulani
5. 'Ohia Hua Palaku
6. LEi Loke O Kawika
7. Sons of Hawaii (Ring Kalihi)
8. Hanohano Wale No Na Cowboy
9. Maika'i waimea
10. Maika'i Waipi'o
11. Kalakaua
12. Ka Makani Ka'ili Aloha
    
    

Album Tracks:

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1. No Ka Mokukiakahi Ke Aloha (Chant)
2. Mele A Ka Pu'uwai
3. Ipo Lei Momi
4. I Will Be Here
5. Melelana
6. Hanohano 'O Maui
7. Maunaleo
8. Lei Hinhina
9. Pule Ho'ao (Wedding Chant)
10. The Road that Never Ends
11. E Ala E