About This:
WAITIKI is a new Boston-based tiki-tainment group that takes audiences on an exotic, South Pacific sound adventure like no other. Along with their own library of original exotica music, WAITIKI also plays tribute to the classic tiki tunes of Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Les Baxter... basically, anything that permits the frequent use of bird-calls, the guiro (chi-yah chih chih chi-yah chih chih) or the melodica! WAITIKI's first record is seasoned with traditional, and contemporary flavors found only in the village of Okonkulukú - from the classic Denny tunes "Manila" and "Primativa," to the twisted antics of "Satyritar," and the wacky stories told in "March of Chief MauMau" and "Fuzzy Mammoth Breath." WAITIKI also debuts the first ever "Alo-hop" song with Mr. Ho's Yummy Hut Yee-Haw. And, as any of the villagers from Okonkulukú will attest, no WAITIKI show would be complete without everyone's favorite song about pandas and punctuation, "Pan-XOTIK-Da." Charred Mammal Flesh features the zany antics of WAITIKI at full throttle. Complete with the never- before-heard sacrifice of a live watermelon, it's the first of a new tidal wave of exotic tikitainment that's popped up at the '05 and '06 Hukilau Festivals in Florida, the 2005 Hawaii International Jazz Festival, and in 2006 at the Festival de Mexico (Mexico City) where their 20-piece "Orchestrotica" goes space-age and plays their own transcriptions of Juan Garcia Esquivel!