FANG presents...
Artist.......: Blue Hawaii
Album........: Tenderness
Label........: Arbutus Records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: ABT061
Source.......: CD
Rip.date.....: 2017-10-04
Str.date.....: 2017-10-06
Quality......: 233kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://arbutusrecords.com
track title time
1. Free At Last 4:42
2. No One Like You 5:06
3. Pregame 0:19
4. Versus Game 3:52
5. Belong To Myself 3:43
6. Prepare For Flight 0:26
7. Younger Heart 3:30
8. Strummin 0:36
9. Make Love Stay 4:28
10. Big News 1:08
11. Blossoming From Your Shy 2:50
12. Searching For You 3:44
13. Do You Need Me 4:25
14. Tenderness 4:03
15. Giggles 0:17
16. Far Away Soon 1:34
Runtime 44:43
Size 80.84
Release Notes:
Blue Hawaii is the songwriting, production, and DJ project of Raphaelle æRaÆ
Standell and Alexander æAgorÆ Kerby. After some four years apart, the duo
rekindled their creative flame in 2016 and begun writing music about an intimate
relationship Ra was experiencing mostly over instant messaging, sparking ideas
about the meaning of closeness in our highly connected world. Tenderness is a
concept album which brings forth the challenges of handling relationships
online. Maintaining closeness over distance and a need for more tenderness
between each other - both in real and virtual life - are important themes in the
album's progression. The album draws upon influence from 90's dance tracks and
deep disco cuts, often mixed with RaÆs acoustic guitar playing. It unfolds like
a play and each song being supported by shorter interlude pieces: skits, phone
calls, acoustic demos, real life samples and quiet left-turns. "Free At Last"
opens as a smooth house jam with a half-spoken vocal, rasping out the
bittersweet tear between the end of RaÆs last relationship and her budding
self-confidence. The listener is guided through the many other phases of letting
go: pining, anger, nostalgia, forgiveness, and abandonment, until reaching the
title track, ôTenderness". Here the strength which Ra has been searching for is
boldly stated: ôI learn to greet the day, with as much tenderness as if I were
laying in your arms, learning how to be alone without you, and happy to be with
meö.
Blue Hawaii have traced a unique path. They made a splash back in 2010 by
releasing the sun-soaked EP Blooming Summer, following their loving, dustyrose
coloured travels through Central America. Three years quickly passed and they
suddenly found themselves touring a break-up record called Untogether (2013),
dealing with complex issues surrounding technology & their relationship, living
apart while creating together, and seeing their local community torn apart by
success and jealousy. Since then, Ra spent much of her time with her band
Braids, while Agor has lived in LA and Berlin developing a deeper understanding
of dance music production and DJing ù something the two are well known to bring
to their heavy-hitting live show & DJ sets.
The cover image of Tenderness is shot in AgorÆs ex-living room in Glendale, CA -
it depicts a couple close to each other, ironically tender, communicating
primarily on their phones. This speaks to the contradictory power of technology,
wherein people are both alienated and brought together by its use. It offers one
view on our preferred method of staying in touch, but not an altogether
depressing one for it is somehow also rose-coloured and loving, with room for
personal growth. By the end of the record Ra has dismissed her absent lover and
finds validation without a need for them - investing newfound energy in being
tender to herself.
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