catalogue

BLUE HAWAII

TENDERNESS (ARBUTUS RECORDS)

BLUE HAWAII - TENDERNESS 116162
format:
1 CD
release:
20.10.2017
label:
ARBUTUS RECORDS
item ID:
116162
barcode:
0061297554775
Blue Hawaii's Tenderness searches for the meaning of closeness in our highly-connected world. Central to the record is the contradictory power of technology: people are at once alienated and brought together by its use.

With immediacy of communication we can feel close without ever having to be truly tender to each other.

After taking a 4 year break from writing and producing with each other, Ra and Agor rekindled their creative flame in 2016, writing music about an unrequited relationship Ra was experiencing with someone mostly online, constantly battling these contradictory feelings of distance and closeness.

As record flows from one song to the next with skits, phone calls, acoustic demos, real life samples and quiet left-turns, she discovers that happiness is derived not from others but from something immaterial within herself.

She finds validation without the need for the other - a valuable lesson whether in real or virtual reality.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. FREE AT LAST
  • 1.2. NO ONE LIKE YOU
  • 1.3. PREGAME
  • 1.4. VERSUS GAME
  • 1.5. BELONG TO MYSELF
  • 1.6. PREPARE FOR FLIGHT
  • 1.7. YOUNGER HEART
  • 1.8. STRUMMIN'
  • 1.9. MAKE LOVE STAY
  • 1.10. BIG NEWS
  • 1.11. BLOSSOMING FROM YOUR SHY
  • 1.12. SEARCHING FOR YOU
  • 1.13. DO YOU NEED ME?
  • 1.14. TENDERNESS
  • 1.15. GIGGLES
  • 1.16. FAR AWAY SOON