Ukelele master Jake Shimabukuro Goes Tranquil on Calm Seas, Echoes February CD of the Month.
In these troubled and turbulent times, we thought it might be right for a CD of the Month that will both sooth your senses, but also take your mind into new places. Today, I’ve got that album, Jake Shimabukuro’s Calm Seas. Jake is the Jimi Hendrix and Tommy Emmanuel of the ukelele. His playing can be fast and pyrotechnical, but not on Calm Seas. Jake Shimabukuro has heard all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho and Hawaiian music jokes about the ukelele. He isn’t that, although those are some of his roots. But Jake changed the way a ukelele is supposed to sound, the way Hendrix changed the way a guitar is supposed to sound. And sometimes, he attains Hendrixian levels of electricity. But again, not on Calm Seas. This is an album of meditations and contemplations. But also an album of sonic experimentation drawing upon inspiration from across the minimalist spectrum. There are only two sounds, if you will, on the album: Jake’s ukelele and the Hakalau Rainforest. We’ll hear several tracks from the album tonight on Echoes from PRX
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Rendering Time | Rendering Time |
| 0:06:00 | Jake Shimabukuro | Calm Seas | Calm Seas |
| 0:14:45 | Blue Tomorrows | Colorado | Weather Forever |
| 0:20:36 | Rebecca Foon | In a Time of Truth | Black Butterflies |
| 0:24:52 | STS9 | Portal to the Starry Path | Human Dream |
| 0:29:30 | Lisa Bella Donna | Future Moves (excerpt) | Counterpointsa |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Jake Shimabukuro | After the Rain | Calm Seas |
| 0:34:07 | Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore | Perpetual Adoration | Tragic Magic |
| 0:39:33 | Mirah | After the Rain | Dedication |
| 0:45:20 | Break | ||
| 0:46:03 | Jake Shimabukuro | Waterfall | Calm Seas |
| 0:49:03 | Florence and the Machine | Sympathy Magic | Sympathy Magic |
| 0:53:15 | Parallel Worlds | Timefilter | Transformation |
| 0:59:00 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing-Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Rasa | Adharam Madhuram | Temple of Love |
| 1:06:00 | Jake Shimabukuro | The Passing Storm (With Nature) | Calm Seas |
| 1:18:14 | Falling You | Ariadne | Metanoia |
| 1:24:49 | Barry Walker Jr. | Son Don’t Brighten The Bear Creek Rhyolite (feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon) | Son Don’t Brighten The Bear Creek Rhyolite |
| 1:29:30 | Message to Bears | Half Light (excerpt) | Tired Eyes Waking Hearts |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Jake Shimabukuro | Early Morning | Calm Seas |
| 1:32:42 | The Amercan Dollar | Star Stations – Andy Leech Rework | Lo-Fi Dimensions 3: Ambient Reworks |
| 1:37:08 | Rena Jones | Folding Grace into Empty Spaces | Love Letters |
| 1:41:57 | Azam Ali | No Longing for Home | Synesthesia |
| 1:46:34 | Break | ||
| 1:47:23 | Jake Shimabukuro | Sounds of Hakalau | Calm Seas |
Sit down at the ambient jazz nightclub when we hear Twilight Archive from the album, Dusk Line. Mixing trumpet, deep, slow electronica grooves and ambient lighting, it’s a psychedelic night time journey. It’s Echoes After Dusk from PRX.
| Start Time | Running Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIRST HALF HOUR | ||||
| 0:01:00 | 5:02 | Morcheeba | Cut My Heart Out | Blackest Blue |
| 0:06:00 | 2:41 | Barry Walker Jr. | Under Leaf Hill (feat. Rob Smith & Jason Willmon) | Paleo Sol |
| 0:08:30 | 6:00 | Tori Amos | Building a Mountain | The Music of Tori and the Muses |
| 0:14:19 | 5:02 | Kevin Keller | Reflections Below | Reflections Below (single) |
| 0:19:05 | 3:45 | Tycho | Boundary Rider (feat. Paul Banks) | Boundary Rider Single |
| 0:22:44 | 5:04 | Twilight Archive | Altitude Control | Dusk Line |
| 0:29:30 | 0:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Two Shores (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| SECOND HALF HOUR | ||||
| 0:30:00 | 3:29 | Gracie and Rachel | Underneath | Hello Weakness You Make Me Strong |
| 0:33:27 | 4:45 | Flore Laurentienne | Regate | Volume III |
| 0:38:03 | 7:32 | Twin Shadow | Real Enough | Cadet |
| 0:45:26 | 0:55 | Break | ||
| 0:46:22 | 3:14 | Jake Shimabukuro | Beneath the Waves Part 1 | Calm Seas |
| 0:49:20 | 3:43 | Madison George | Point Of View (feat. Maci Jackson) | Macrocosm |
| 0:52:50 | 5:35 | Where the Good Way Lies | The Wonder of It All | The Wonder of It All |
| 0:59:00 | 1:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| THIRD HALF HOUR | ||||
| 1:01:00 | 0:05:00 | Midori Hirano | Illuminence | Otonoma |
| 1:06:00 | 5:17 | David Moore | Graze the Bell | Graze the Bell |
| 1:11:03 | 4:42 | Near The Parenthesis | Angaharas | Relative Minor |
| 1:15:37 | 3:26 | Rebecca Foon | Her Eyes Were Telling Me | Black Butterflies |
| 1:18:56 | 5:12 | Primal Sky | Druid Grove | Druid Grove (Single) |
| 1:24:04 | 4:31 | Tonto’s Expanding Head Band | Cybernaut | Tonto Rides Again |
| 1:29:30 | 0:30 | Lisa Belladonna | Future Moves (excerpt) | Counterpoints |
| FOURTH HALF HOUR | ||||
| 1:30:00 | 5:52 | Robeone | Winter Dream | Winter Dream (Single) |
| 1:35:46 | 5:53 | Quiet Resonance | Alma Fuerte (Strong Soul) | Pathways |
| 1:41:17 | 12:13 | Jake Shimabukuro | The Passing Storm | Calm Seas |
| 1:53:06 | 4:53 | Twilight Archive | Somewhere Street | Dusk Line |