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The "Lavapalooza" CD includes a full-color 12-page booklet inside! Here are images from the album artwork, the jacket art by SHAG, and more photos from Johnny Aloha.
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JOHNNY ALOHA "LIVE" PHOTOGRAPH
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JOHNNY ALOHA "BEACH" PHOTOGRAPH
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JOHNNY ALOHA "LAVAPALOOZA" COVER ARTWORK BY SHAG
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JOHNNY ALOHA "DRINK TO HAWAII" SHEET MUSIC
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► "Lavapalooza" Takes A Turn On "Tiki" Sound
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, November 26, 2010
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine have enjoyed at least a decade of success reworking pop and hip-hop hits as cocktail lounge music — imagine how, say, “Me So Horny,” “She Hates Me” and “Smoke Two Joints” would have sounded if recorded by Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. As one decade nears its end and another is but weeks away, Cheese is now introducing a protégé “tiki culture” entertainer Johnny Aloha, who plans to do to hapa-haole music what Lounge Against The Machine has been doing to mainstream pop.
Aloha’s vision of “tiki culture” music is ukulele, bongos and steel guitar rather than the complex “exotica” arrangements of Martin Denny, but the concept is an imaginative alternative to Denny tribute bands. His best choices are songs that somehow fit a tropical resort context — “Vacation” (Go-Go’s), “Cruel Summer” (Bananarama) and “Paradise City” (Guns ‘N’ Roses) are three. All fit surprisingly well and are much more interesting than straight remakes would be.
There are other good ideas. Bongo drumming and a chorus of faux-Hawaiian chanting add a frenetic “exotic” edge to “Last Resort.” Steel guitar, ukulele, percussion and “hula narrator” Olena Heu are the keys to an imaginative makeover of Will Smith’s “Summertime” that owes nothing to the original hit but the lyrics. “Gangsta’s Paradise” worked well for Cheese, and it works well for Aloha, too.
There is one new song, “Drink to Hawaii.” Written by producer Mark Jonathan Davis and project musician Sage Guyton, it’s an imaginative hapa-haole number that mixes and matches the names of exotic drinks with Hawaiian place names — “I’ll take a Chi Chi to Waikiki/And a Zombie to Ka‘anapali” is a verse that actually rhymes reasonably well. Some of the other pairings don’t rhyme, but the idea carries them through.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser, November 26, 2010
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine have enjoyed at least a decade of success reworking pop and hip-hop hits as cocktail lounge music — imagine how, say, “Me So Horny,” “She Hates Me” and “Smoke Two Joints” would have sounded if recorded by Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett. As one decade nears its end and another is but weeks away, Cheese is now introducing a protégé “tiki culture” entertainer Johnny Aloha, who plans to do to hapa-haole music what Lounge Against The Machine has been doing to mainstream pop.
Aloha’s vision of “tiki culture” music is ukulele, bongos and steel guitar rather than the complex “exotica” arrangements of Martin Denny, but the concept is an imaginative alternative to Denny tribute bands. His best choices are songs that somehow fit a tropical resort context — “Vacation” (Go-Go’s), “Cruel Summer” (Bananarama) and “Paradise City” (Guns ‘N’ Roses) are three. All fit surprisingly well and are much more interesting than straight remakes would be.
There are other good ideas. Bongo drumming and a chorus of faux-Hawaiian chanting add a frenetic “exotic” edge to “Last Resort.” Steel guitar, ukulele, percussion and “hula narrator” Olena Heu are the keys to an imaginative makeover of Will Smith’s “Summertime” that owes nothing to the original hit but the lyrics. “Gangsta’s Paradise” worked well for Cheese, and it works well for Aloha, too.
There is one new song, “Drink to Hawaii.” Written by producer Mark Jonathan Davis and project musician Sage Guyton, it’s an imaginative hapa-haole number that mixes and matches the names of exotic drinks with Hawaiian place names — “I’ll take a Chi Chi to Waikiki/And a Zombie to Ka‘anapali” is a verse that actually rhymes reasonably well. Some of the other pairings don’t rhyme, but the idea carries them through.
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