MIKE HANAPI WITH KALAMAS QUARTET - s/t LP Atmospheric and Mickey Hart and Spencer

and Mickey Hart and Spencer Dryden (percussion)

“Her up-tempo keyboard work here is the most exciting of her commercial career

Although starting off as a side-project for the members’ hardcore bands

Soundgarden) and features a mix of noisy

Gnarly guitar work and bruising beats (think Jesus Lizard and Rapeman)

MIKE HANAPI WITH KALAMAS QUARTET - s/t LP Atmospheric and Mickey Hart and SpencerMike Hanapi was a brilliant steel guitarist and vocalist from Honolulu, whose recordings with Kalamas Quartet and the Ilima Islanders remain among the highest peaks of early 20th century Hawaiian music. Truly peaceful, tranquil and unique. Hanapis gorgeous falsetto voice is backed by lush harmony vocals, like a lonesome yodel floating above an oceanside choir. The purely acoustic instrumentation of lap steel guitars, ukeleles and harp guitars weaves