The Journey Continues
C&K fans have awaited this Hana Ola/Sony Records anthology ever since "Journey Through The Years" was released late in 1997. That album contained 13 songs from Cecilio Rodriguez and Henry Kapono's three Columbia albums ("Cecilio & Kapono" 1974, "Elua" 1975 and "The Night Music" 1977), two songs from an obscure C&K single, and an unreleased "lost" recording. "The Journey Continues," the second C&K anthology, contains two more never-released recordings.
Rodriguez's "You Are The Woman," recorded in 1976, is rock with a strong country edge, but the arrangement is built around the duo's strong harmonies.
Kapono sings lead on most of Wendell Ing's "Easy On My Mind" as strings, woodwinds, keyboards and the rhythm section supplants the duo's guitars.
Ing's long forgotten song is one of four songs on the new anthology not written by either Rodriguez or Kapono (The Columbia albums contained 25 originals and five songs by other writers; of the five additional "lost" songs Ing's was the only one not written by Rodriguez or Kapono). C&K's arrangements of Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" and Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair" are perfect examples of the difference between a cover band that copies a hit and a creative recording artist who brings an imaginative new perspective to it. When Cecilio & Kapono recorded another artist's material it always came out sounding like a C&K song.
Chucky Souza's "Railway Stations" captured C&K in a country rock mood with hints of Rodriguez's Hispanic heritage heard as ad libs during the bridge. Although the songs here are arguably not as big as the songs on "Journey Through The Years" there are a lot of great musical memories here -- "You And Me," "I Am The Other Man," "After The Omen" and "Here With You," to name four.
Five movies begin their Oahu run on Friday:
Forces of Nature: Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock and Maura Tierney star in a neo-screwball comedy. Affleck is a button-down dust-jacket copywriter just a few days away from marrying Bridget (Tierney) when his carefully laid plans begin to spin out of control. (PG-13)
The King and I: Voices: Miranda Richardson, Martin Vidnovic, Allen Hong, Ian Richardson. The first major studio animated feature adaptation of a Broadway musical. (G)
Ravenous: David Arquette, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones; This oddball period piece set at a remote fort in the Sierra Nevadas, circa 1847, is very loosely based on the Donner Party incident. (R)
True Crime: Clint Eastwood. Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods star in a study of the struggles of individuals to rise above their profound weaknesses and those of the society they've created. It follows two men, a black inmate scheduled for execution at midnight and a white newspaper reporter played by Eastwood who becomes convinced that the prisoner is innocent. (R)
Got a yearning for Celtic pipes, Chinese opera, Indian dance, a little Hawaiian puppetry? Explore 'Roots' at KCC
Kapiolani Community College offers four days of cultural immersion in an international festival called "Roots, " today through Friday on campus.
You get music: slack-key to taiko. Literature: poetry to student readings in Asian languages. Fashion: kimonos to traditional Chinese. Dance: flamenco to Cook Island classics. Also: art exhibits, film showings, demonstrations and more.
Activities continue all through the four days, ending around 9 p.m. The cafeteria will serve international cuisines throughout. Folk art demonstrations -- Indian hand-painting to lomi lomi massage -- take place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday.
"Roots" actually ends with the annual "A Night in India" dinner, 6 p.m. April 8 and 9 in Ka 'Ikena Dining Room. The $40 dinner will feature cuisine prepared by Kusuma Cooray and her students at KCC's Culinary Institute of the Pacific.
All other events are free. For a complete schedule call 734-9715.
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