Mike Kahikina, Ka‘ala - Keiki O Ka ‘Āina (2024)

Procured from two reels belonging to Mike Kahikina, these songs were part of the sessions that Kahikina and his band Ka‘ala recorded in 1983.

In 1983, two of the songs here released on Protea Records as a 7-inch single: "Ocean Rider" and "Show Me". When we restored the tapes with the help of audio engineer Jessica Thompson, we found three different versions of "Ocean Rider".

There were also two versions of "I Am A Native", both of which could easily serve as long-lost anthems, speaking just as powerfully today as they did when Kahikina and Ka‘ala first committed it to tape.

The vocal and instrumental versions of "Hawai‘i's Beautiful" were pressed to vinyl in March 2021 as AGS-047.

Tracklist:
1-1 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Ocean Rider (Short Version) [1:24]
1-2 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - I Am A Native (Version 1) [4:01]
1-3 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Ocean Rider (Version 1) [3:52]
1-4 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Hawai‘i's Beautiful [3:33]
1-5 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - I Am A Native (Version 2) [4:02]
1-6 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Ocean Rider (Version 2) [4:00]
1-7 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Show Me [4:09]
1-8 Mike Kahikina;Ka‘ala - Hawai‘i's Beautiful (Instrumental) [3:36]