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Ula Hemla by SmokeyVW [Email]
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Last Played: Nov 19, 2008 - 11:06:35 AM
Downloads: 25
Fans: 5
Uploaded: Sep 08, 2007 - 03:12:44 PM
Last Updated: Sep 13, 2008 - 02:10:27 PM
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'Ohe'o (1), Koki'o 'ula'ula (1), Haleakala (1), Kipahulu (1)
Description:
album: After
track 1: 4:02 Feedback
track 2: 5:12 Breathing
track 3: 7:12 Marching Through The Visible Man
track 4: 3:52 Cleft Synaptic
track 5: 5:08 Sippin' From The Big Dipper
track 6: 5:08 Ula Hemla
track 7: 2:54 Yaa Yaya Yeya Yeyeah!
track 8: 3:03 Rolling Down
track 9: 5:29 Piano
track 10: 4:07 Lucky
track 11: 7:34 How Ah Ya
track 12: 5:07 Smokey's Embers
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Song Description

I once was deeply in love with Ula Hemla. Infatuated. Obsessed. But that was another lifetime. On a long and winding road.

For many years this place was called "The Seven Sacred Pools" a name that was actually a marketing gimmick intended to attract tourists to the area (the pools are not sacred and there aren't seven of them). It is a series of lovely waterfalls and swimmable pools that cascade until reaching the ocean at the volcano's base. The flow of water that made its way through volcanic rock and rain forest engulfs the place with lush vegetation. It's a very lovely spot.
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Take me to the volcano &mdash 09/08/07 - 05:06:39 PM
wash me in the water
washing me down - washing me down
Ula Hemla - Ula Hemla
tonight I'll dream of Ula Hemla

Masterful piece - beyond description really - I love it.

BTW - you're one twisted dude.


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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:01:29 PM
J vs T V

Talking Heads

Ula is way twisted - just look

but really, no idea where this one came from, it just happened.

thanks

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Exciting &mdash 09/08/07 - 08:36:31 PM
Great stuff, keeps the listener enthralled, ahh love that liquid sound

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:01:26 PM
not sure which part is liquid, but thank you

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:01:27 PM
not sure which part is liquid, but thank you

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when &mdash 09/09/07 - 01:30:46 AM
i was there, i drove up from Hana and couldn't go in the water. it had raines so much, they wouldn't let you in. man was i pissed. this is a great piece. love when the drums drop out and the choir and strings come in.

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:04:08 PM
for a while, my wife and i were going to move to Maui.

but it didn't happen. mostly because of family ties...

but for a while, we had island fever big time.

thanks for listening

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groovy &mdash 09/09/07 - 05:41:36 AM
like a skewed version of the Batman theme - this is a rollercoaster ride - nice work , Bill.

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:10:49 PM
thank you

i guess it might possibly become a Hawaiian Superman theme ?! :D

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one big waterslide &mdash 09/09/07 - 08:32:27 PM
just slips you through the tune. Like all the shifts this goes through.
splashingly good.

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.. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:18:16 PM
i had fun with the chromatic descending steps in this - that became the falling water idea once i got around to mapping the music to words...

thanks


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ula &mdash 09/11/07 - 02:58:01 PM
I was once hopelessy in love with uma thurman. I know that doesn't count. Still your track conjures up those embers of desire as well as create imagery of an exotic locale. well done

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. &mdash 09/14/07 - 09:16:59 PM
wow thanks for reminding me of Uma

Ula Hemla came from the few syllables the voice synth could produce - it all spun out from there

i put that strings interlude in there at first only for contrast, but it grew on me as i worked on this, and i stretched it out and embellished it. it does have some sort of glowing embers thing going, doesn't it?

eventually that part became the "island fever" concept i suppose...

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Man alive! &mdash 09/19/07 - 12:54:08 AM
Couldn't sit still listening to this Bill! Bass and percussion are awesome...Your piano playing blows me away, and the production really messes with my head (in a good way). Well done!

Be well!

http://www.macjams.com/song/35310 (It won't trouble your waters!)



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. &mdash 09/24/07 - 07:25:34 PM
thanks MW - glad you enjoyed this little ode to another place and time...

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