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--from the Walter Ehresman album "Monkey Paw Situation" (2009).

Purchase download of whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-paw-situation

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"Deep Tiki" is another piece in the Ehresman discography that reflects his love of retro tiki culture. An owner of countless strange tiki mugs, masks, lights, shirts, mixology books, etc., he warms enthusiastically to the subject. “I’ve been a tiki nut for many years now, and have been fascinated with the idea behind the original Exotica genre of music…..The whole notion of creating what is essentially a fake world music, all about an exotic lounging soundtrack.” Not entirely happy with music he’d heard that attempted to bring Exotica into the 21st century, Ehresman has occasionally tried his hand at creating such music himself. “When I wrote and recorded the song ‘Only On Islands Like This’ for the No Unifying Theme album (2004), I was taking my first stab at Exotica, and I’m fairly happy with how it came out except that I had a hard time finding a female vocalist to sing it and ended up going with someone who had no experience and was very reluctant to do it,” he says. Clearly that was not a problem with “Deep Tiki,” because the vocals here by Patricia “Pele” Jacobs-Munoz are stunning. “I had known Patricia for years and had known she was a singer, but hadn’t actually heard her voice before until she came over, put on the headphones, and started to sing on this track…..Wow! I was totally knocked out by not only her wide vocal range, but also just the beauty of her tone and how well she captured exactly what I wanted for the song,” he explains. The music itself is Ehresman’s attempt at melding the elements of traditional Exotica with more modern downtempo electronica sounds. The impetus for the song was Ehresman’s desire to write and record a theme song for his theme camp’s tiki bar at the Burning Flipside festival in Austin, May 2008 (the Austin regional Burning Man event).

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Deep Tiki
(© 2008 Walter Ehresman)

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​Chill, released August 1, 2017
Walter Ehresman--keyboards & keyboard percussion, tiki god vocals, sequencing.

Special guest: Patricia "Pele" Munoz-Jacobs--wahine vocals.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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