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Cyril Pahinui — Panini Pua Kea
Album: 6 & 12 String Slack Key
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Released: 1994
Length: 3:51
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 carolynjo21 wrote:

I'm floating across the ocean with the sun on my shoulders when I hear this song :)



Aloha nui loa
Posted 7 months ago by Sunflowering    [ Reply ]
 nigelr wrote:

Da kine!



Da kine kine!!
Posted 7 months ago by Sunflowering    [ Reply ]
I could do with another Hawaii trip and listen to more music like this
Posted 9 months ago by smartn1    [ Reply ]
 MoxyP wrote:

And one of the strings is slightly out of tune. To the person who asked "Is it just me or is this annoying?" yes, it's annoying because of that tuning issue (and I don't mean slack key in general).


I think you are both missing the point, Aloha. 
Posted 1 year ago by surfool    [ Reply ]
 Stephen_Phillips wrote:

You might think it was Leo Kottke except... without the technical superiority of LK but with stutters, fluffed notes and loss of tempo every now and then.

Still, without being too unkind, it is nice music and evocative of the 50th State of the Union.

And one of the strings is slightly out of tune. To the person who asked "Is it just me or is this annoying?" yes, it's annoying because of that tuning issue (and I don't mean slack key in general).
Posted 1 year ago by MoxyP    [ Reply ]
I had the pleasure of getting to know Cyril Pahinui.  Big heart and big talent.  I still get to see his wife now and then at events. 
Posted 1 year ago by hawaiiboy    [ Reply ]
I could have sworn it was doc watson.

But I like to swear on  Saturdays. 
Posted 1 year ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 laverdakeith wrote:

is it me or is it a bit annoying ?




Your comment is annoying!!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Aloha kakahiaka, y'all!
Posted 1 year ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
I'm floating across the ocean with the sun on my shoulders when I hear this song :)
Posted 1 year ago by carolynjo21    [ Reply ]
Never even heard of 'slack-key tuning' until RP. 
Discovering I love it!
Thanks yet again, RP...
Posted 1 year ago by RazzCat    [ Reply ]
 laverdakeith wrote:

is it me or is it a bit annoying ?



As previous responses. Its nobody but you. 
Posted 3 years ago by MysteryMan    [ Reply ]
 laverdakeith wrote:
is it me or is it a bit annoying ?
 
Definitely YOU!
Posted 4 years ago by sqqqrly    [ Reply ]
Would love some Panini right about now

Hey Cyrli here's a solid 8 from yo boy
Posted 4 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
 laverdakeith wrote:
is it me or is it a bit annoying ?
 
It's you.
Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
Pobre vino, vino un feliz pintor.

Vino González
Posted 4 years ago by Strada4Ever    [ Reply ]
is it me or is it a bit annoying ?
Posted 5 years ago by laverdakeith    [ Reply ]
 jimtyrrell wrote:
Whoa,  nice guitar. I thought it was Leo Kottke. 7.5

 
You might think it was Leo Kottke except... without the technical superiority of LK but with stutters, fluffed notes and loss of tempo every now and then.

Still, without being too unkind, it is nice music and evocative of the 50th State of the Union.
Posted 5 years ago by Stephen_Phillips    [ Reply ]
R.I.P. Cyril. 
Posted 6 years ago by kazoo    [ Reply ]
Beautiful song on an Aloha Friday afternoon while reviewing contracts. #smilin
Posted 6 years ago by lrep    [ Reply ]
Doc Watson's Hawaiian Vacation! Very nice. 
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 jimtyrrell wrote:
Whoa,  nice guitar. I thought it was Leo Kottke. 7.5

 
Ditto- Raise you an 8{#Bananajam}
Posted 7 years ago by Faithful_Fool    [ Reply ]
Whoa,  nice guitar. I thought it was Leo Kottke. 7.5
Posted 8 years ago by jimtyrrell    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Taj Mahal, Queen Bee.  Keep waiting for Taj to start singing{#Surprised}
Posted 8 years ago by Stephenater    [ Reply ]
Try not to say if you try to say Panini Puker.
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
a Hawaiian Leo Kottke! Aloha
Posted 9 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Way to go Bill. Love it whenever you play Hawaiian slack key guitar. Had to stop work and turn up the volume for a couple of minutes.
Posted 9 years ago by stangalbraith    [ Reply ]
I am sure this is technically brilliant but it sure sounds awful
 
Posted 9 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
Inspired by 1980s childrens TV programmes perhaps?
Posted 9 years ago by xanda    [ Reply ]

MORE PLEASE!


Posted 10 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
 jablan wrote:
I won't buy this record, it is scratched. :(

 
John Cleese as Hungarian with faulty Hungarian-English phrasebook: "My hovercraft is full of EELS"

"Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch--a classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao

"Az én mellbimbók felrobban örömében!" 

Posted 10 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
This is beautiful. 
Posted 11 years ago by grant    [ Reply ]
 onerb wrote:
Man, have you ever tried finger picking a 12-string? Kudos!

 
Actually, yes. Hence my appreciation for someone who can really do it well!
Posted 11 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]
Man, have you ever tried finger picking a 12-string? Kudos!
Posted 12 years ago by onerb    [ Reply ]
 ScottN wrote:
Nice. enjoyable.  But simple; nothing extraordinary. 
 BiilG , Why not play something from the roots of slack key—Gabby Pahinui and his "Brown Album"?  Upload someone?
 

I've got some, if I ever get a free slot again I will.{#Yes}
Posted 13 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Nice. enjoyable.  But simple; nothing extraordinary. 
 BiilG , Why not play something from the roots of slack key—Gabby Pahinui and his "Brown Album"?  Upload someone?


Posted 13 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
Was thinking Leo Kottke at first. Nice string work!
Posted 13 years ago by nmcvaugh    [ Reply ]
It's pretty good.  Too repetitive to warrant anything higher than a 6 though.
Posted 14 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
Wow, that's a lot of picking and strumming! Not a good hangover song. :(
Posted 14 years ago by voicers    [ Reply ]
I actually had to look up "Slack Key" or "Slack String" - very interesting to learn about something new.
Posted 14 years ago by happyattorney    [ Reply ]
I won't buy this record, it is scratched. :(
Posted 14 years ago by jablan    [ Reply ]
Very sweet and laid back. Nice to be reminded that not everything has to be harder, better, faster and stronger. Rats, now I want to hear some Daft Punk.

Posted 14 years ago by Businessgypsy    [ Reply ]
Good transition... Thanks...
I lived in Hawaii when the traditional Hawaiian beach boy music was dying out and the more traditional slack key was growing popular...

Lots of good music in both styles. Both reflect aspects of Hawaii that are warm and wonderful, inviting...

Keep em coming...


Posted 14 years ago by AndyJ    [ Reply ]
Wow, before I looked I said to myself, "this sounds like a 12-string."  It felt nice to be right.  :)
Posted 14 years ago by twitterpated    [ Reply ]
 jools wrote:
Is this about a panini or does it mean something in Hawaiin dialect?!

Nice anyway 
 
See https://www.huapala.org/P/Panini_Pua_Kea.html for the lyrics

 



Posted 14 years ago by imklammer    [ Reply ]
dig it!
Posted 14 years ago by LongGoneDaddy    [ Reply ]
 d00kie wrote:
YAWN!!!!
 
An excited yawn?
Is that like the roaring silence?


Posted 14 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
 jools wrote:
Is this about a panini or does it mean something in Hawaiin dialect?!

Nice anyway 
 
lol.

Posted 14 years ago by DDB61    [ Reply ]
Beautiful music.  Painful album cover.  The truth is not always pretty.
Posted 14 years ago by DDB61    [ Reply ]
Is this about a panini or does it mean something in Hawaiin dialect?!

Nice anyway 
Posted 14 years ago by jools    [ Reply ]
Perfect for a Friday afternoon.
Posted 15 years ago by mikedarookie    [ Reply ]
Amazingly beautiful... Thanks BILL!
Posted 15 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/slack_key_guitar
Posted 15 years ago by casey1024    [ Reply ]
 AlienRelic wrote:
Do any of you musicians out there know what 'slack key guitar' is, exactly? I'm curious.
 
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_key_guitar


Posted 15 years ago by Jive    [ Reply ]
Do any of you musicians out there know what 'slack key guitar' is, exactly? I'm curious.
Posted 15 years ago by AlienRelic    [ Reply ]
Gorgeously perfect.
Posted 15 years ago by alux    [ Reply ]
Nice Bill! More Hawaiian music please!
Posted 15 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
YAWN!!!!
Posted 15 years ago by d00kie    [ Reply ]
Heard this come on and raced over to the web site to find out where this lovely Kottke song came from —- well, blow me down.  Nice stuff.
Posted 15 years ago by twp    [ Reply ]
That guitar has a beautiful tone. Anyone know what it is?
Posted 15 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
I like it but it sounds pretty elementry.....sort of like Kotke at 3?
Posted 15 years ago by Randomax    [ Reply ]
This is some very pretty picking...
Posted 16 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
 Misterfixit wrote:
Love that 12-string .... Slack is Da Bomb!

 
Such a cool sound, the slack key.

Posted 16 years ago by birdland    [ Reply ]
Having a KPIG moment! 7, thanks Bill.
Posted 16 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
Dear god make this circus music stop.
Posted 16 years ago by Manbird    [ Reply ]
Cyril Pahinui .... it sounded like Leo Kotke at first, I like it.
Posted 16 years ago by a_genuine_find    [ Reply ]
This is quite lovely.
Posted 17 years ago by rbigelo    [ Reply ]
Is this related to Dobro somehow? I love the texture of the tone.
Posted 17 years ago by cavalaxis    [ Reply ]
LOVE this. More of this style on RP, please!
Posted 17 years ago by Alafia    [ Reply ]
Love that 12-string .... Slack is Da Bomb!
Posted 17 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
makin me homesick.
Posted 17 years ago by dreadpixie    [ Reply ]
Da kine!
Posted 17 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
Mari wrote:
... I relate well with this ANNE_MARIE, a walk in the woods, lovely really luv slack-key
But the wood should be a tropical rain forest with a volcano as backdrop :-)
Posted 17 years ago by rklein    [ Reply ]
Love Hawaiian slack key guitar. Very beautiful and Cyril's one of the gods.
Posted 17 years ago by teapot    [ Reply ]
This blows.
Posted 17 years ago by drtjdel    [ Reply ]
trekhead wrote:
SIMPLE: Panini = that bread Pua = the honey-lovin' bear Kea = cool Norse furnishings ________________________ Crusty Omnivorous Ploeg sure.
Panini puking!!!?? And I was just getting hungry thinking about a Panini!
Posted 17 years ago by strick    [ Reply ]
jruhnke wrote:
Somebody bump the record player--the needle's stuck!!
Posted 17 years ago by strick    [ Reply ]
ANNE_MARIE wrote:
nice!...it meanders like a walk in the woods. a soild 9!
... I relate well with this ANNE_MARIE, a walk in the woods, lovely really luv slack-key
Posted 17 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
Duffalo wrote:
Never heard the genre... This is very cool.
I would definitely suggest hearing the whole album, because I was in the same boat when I first heard it. A mixed bag of musicians, but a great intro to Slack Key.
Posted 17 years ago by leoparadise    [ Reply ]
Quite Kottke-esque.
Posted 17 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Quite likeable picking in the Key of Slack!
Posted 17 years ago by dionysius    [ Reply ]
mahalo for the slack key!
Posted 18 years ago by rtkmusic    [ Reply ]
DrLex wrote:
That was just the perfect background music for manually deleting a bunch of files in a repetitive directory structure via the command-line!
What you said !
Posted 18 years ago by MJB    [ Reply ]
Sweet. 8.
Posted 18 years ago by AlienRelic    [ Reply ]
trekhead wrote:
SIMPLE: Panini = that bread Pua = the honey-lovin' bear Kea = cool Norse furnishings ________________________ Crusty Omnivorous Ploeg sure.
Hear what you are saying but suggest you change Norse for Swedish - might cause offence !!!
Posted 18 years ago by scozzie    [ Reply ]
fahartle wrote:
Amen brother. Feel like I'm in a Hawaiian Groundhog's Day...
he he good one
Posted 18 years ago by navonodt    [ Reply ]
Never heard the genre... This is very cool.
Posted 18 years ago by Duffalo    [ Reply ]
That was just the perfect background music for manually deleting a bunch of files in a repetitive directory structure via the command-line!
Posted 18 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
... Cyril you rock in a slack sort of way and I dig it! ... ...
Posted 18 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
oscar_driver wrote:
nice but tooo much repetition Oscar
Amen brother. Feel like I'm in a Hawaiian Groundhog's Day...
Posted 19 years ago by fahartle    [ Reply ]
nice but tooo much repetition Oscar
Posted 19 years ago by oscar_driver    [ Reply ]
I highly recommend this entire CD. Hawaiian music isn't for everyone, but if you want to explore more (contemporary and traditional) check out mele.com.
Posted 19 years ago by elrod    [ Reply ]
Somebody bump the record player--the needle's stuck!!
Posted 19 years ago by jruhnke    [ Reply ]
beelzebubba wrote:
Why does it have to go anywhere? You ever get in your car and drive through the countryside with the windows down just for the hell of it?
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but a song should take flight, not just taxi down the runway all day, Know what I mean?
Posted 19 years ago by Drummer4soul    [ Reply ]
SIMPLE: Panini = that bread Pua = the honey-lovin' bear Kea = cool Norse furnishings ________________________ Crusty Omnivorous Ploeg sure.
Posted 19 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Drummer4soul wrote:
It was nice for the first 2 minutes, now it is really bugging me. Where is this song going? Maybe it needs some drums or something interesting.
Why does it have to go anywhere? You ever get in your car and drive through the countryside with the windows down just for the hell of it?
Posted 19 years ago by beelzebubba    [ Reply ]
It was nice for the first 2 minutes, now it is really bugging me. Where is this song going? Maybe it needs some drums or something interesting.
Posted 19 years ago by Drummer4soul    [ Reply ]
I thought it was the Radio Hula song again ;) I like the sound as well...
Posted 19 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
very nice 12 string.
Posted 19 years ago by Drunkenlilacwine    [ Reply ]
>>> MORE 12 STRING! <<< ...............Please..............
Posted 20 years ago by diane    [ Reply ]
shiraz wrote:
Thought it was Leo Kottke
I was sure I was hearing Gordon Bok. This guy can play!
Posted 20 years ago by Lazy8    [ Reply ]
Being Hawaiian, it puts such a huge smile on my face that RP plays Hawaiian music on the rotation – from Brudda Iz to slack key guitar, mmm, mmm, mmm...it's a great way to let people on the mainland know Hawaiian music is more than Don Ho or just cheesy, background party music – yes there is that but so much more... :D
Posted 20 years ago by tomnam    [ Reply ]
With the opening notes, I recognized Cyril's playing. Beautiful. I'm a big fan.
Posted 20 years ago by Dais    [ Reply ]
noladq wrote:
Me too. That's a good thing in my book.
Same here.
Posted 20 years ago by Pyro    [ Reply ]
Oh please make it stop. This is the sound KPIG used to play when they had dead air, - just before they did the subscription thing. It sounds great the first thousand or so times times but after that it was just *really* annoying.
Posted 20 years ago by Coppertop    [ Reply ]
nice. but the beginning is slightly out of tune and make my ears bleed.
Posted 20 years ago by bsaunders    [ Reply ]
Sweet and intoxicating.. what a dangerous combination..I am alrady sailing awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :fever.gif: ...
Posted 20 years ago by masterhead    [ Reply ]
shiraz wrote:
Thought it was Leo Kottke
Me too. That's a good thing in my book.
Posted 20 years ago by noladq    [ Reply ]
Always can dig some cool aloha. Excellent follow up for Bare Naked Ladies.
Posted 20 years ago by Peyote    [ Reply ]
sweet...i love qood 12-string
Posted 20 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
Bravo RP. This set has really represented what thoughtful radio/music programming is all about. It elevates instead of playing to the lowest-common-denominator. Most commercial programs are so compromised that, no matter the format genre and even though some stations at least try to be better than the rest of their commercial competition, they just cannot approach the nuance and eclecticism of well-informed and skilled programming as presented by what we are hearing here.
Posted 20 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
Thought it was Leo Kottke
Posted 20 years ago by shiraz    [ Reply ]
jayladdin wrote:
Radio Paradise never ceases to amaze me. Here's a song that I listen to often (I have both of the Slack Key masters CDs) and I never thought I'd hear it outside of my iPod. Thanks Bill!
Me too (well, the car CD player)... Then again, the person who turned me on to these albums also turned me on to RP, so I guess it just figures.
Posted 20 years ago by Pez    [ Reply ]
what a pretty song.....
Posted 21 years ago by mikael    [ Reply ]
Happy happy joy joy! It's my happy Hawaiian music! Here on RP!
Posted 21 years ago by Pez    [ Reply ]
Radio Paradise never ceases to amaze me. Here's a song that I listen to often (I have both of the Slack Key masters CDs) and I never thought I'd hear it outside of my iPod. Thanks Bill!
Posted 21 years ago by jayladdin    [ Reply ]
This did remind me of something from Led Zeppelin\'s Physical Graffiti also. Someone said something about slack key? I guess thats a good way to describe the way it sounds. :)
Posted 21 years ago by ladyj    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by aharamanx: Excellent - absolutely excellent!! Thanks once again, Bill for mixing it up so well.
I think I love you!
Posted 21 years ago by Pipes    [ Reply ]
Nice picking.
Posted 21 years ago by MsJudi    [ Reply ]
Very nice sound. I wouldn\'t know this was Hawaiian music, but I guess I\'ve never heard Hawaiian music to make any sort of comparison. It\'s just very pleasant. RP exposes me to such diverse talent. Thanks for everything!!
Posted 21 years ago by farleym    [ Reply ]