ossory
Honolulu means ‘sheltered bay,’ and two voices trade the city’s whole manifest at speed over pahu and ipu drums: the taro and pigs that came by canoe, a palace lit before the White House, the marsh under Waikiki, and the sand barged in for the beach that sells the island. Everything arrived by sea — so did we.
Everything Came On A Boat
Style
Fast Hawaiian island folk at 152 BPM, driven by pahu drum, ipu heke gourd and puniu knee drum with slack-key guitar and ukulele, sung by an alternating female alto and male tenor trading verses in relaxed local-accent phrasing and joining in close harmony on the choruses, with a falsetto break on the outro.