Date: September 27th 2009

Aloha WAITIKI Fans!

... and a special welcome to those of you who are new to our Newsletter!

THANKS for supporting us on the road

Our CD Release tour in support of "Adventures in Paradise" has wrapped up... it really went well. Many thanks to the hundreds of fans who came out to support us along the way. It was great to finally meet you in person. Your love for live exotica and hunger for our music is quite humbling! To those of you who weren't able to catch us this time ... have no fear, we hope to be back on the road again soon! Stay tuned to waitiki7.comfor pics, videos, and more from the tour...

WFMU Re-Broadcast at 6PM ET TODAY

Last Saturday, following a taping for Armchair Travelling's DVD of TIKI we found ourselves sitting in 5 hours of NJ traffic thanks to some bonehead construction just a half mile from WFMU. We never thought we'd make it to the station. But when we did, the time was ripe for us to play some ultra slick live exotica.

If you missed last week's broadcast of our live performance for WFMU, you can catch it again today! It airs at 6 PM. Tune into WFMU on the ray-dee-oh or online at wfmu.org. Or, if you really can't make it, check it out later: The show will be permanently archived online a few hours after it airs.

Our thanks to Gaylord Fields and Glenn Luttmann for making this show possible.

P.S.: We followed up our WFMU show with a trip to Sabor Peru in Rutherford, NJ. That place was incredible... man, the tako ceviche... you should check it out if you're ever in the area!

"If there’s room for a postmillennial exotica revival, this is the band to beat." -- Nate Chinen

Nate Chinen, the New York Times's preeminent jazz critic has posted his poignant and earnest sentiments about exotica music, referencing The Waitiki 7 as "the band to beat."

Please read it and feel free to respond to his comments with your own at: http://thegig.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/exotica-takes-a-village.html.

More Radio News...

For you radiophiles: Per the 9/22 College Music Journal charts, we debuted at #30 on the CMJ World Top 40 and were the CMJ #4 Most Added (Jazz). Also, NPR's Morning Edition has really taken a liking to us for their interlude music! Over at JazzWeek World, we peaked at #3 a few weeks ago but have been holding steady at #8. Many thanks to our radio promoter Mitchell Feldman for these excellent results.

Mahalo for your support of The Waitiki 7 and live exotica!