{"id":2296,"date":"2011-08-26T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T04:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dionysusrecords.com\/home\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2011-08-28T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T23:31:50","slug":"tiki-oasis-11-the-best-one-yet-some-words-and-lots-of-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dionysusrecords.com\/home\/tiki-oasis-11-the-best-one-yet-some-words-and-lots-of-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiki Oasis 11 – the best one yet! Some words and lots of video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another Tiki Oasis<\/a> has come and gone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having been to all 11 Tiki Oasis weekenders, I can without a doubt say that this year’s event was in many ways better than the previous 10, and that my friends is not an easy accomplishment. For instance, Tiki Oasis\u2019 musical line-ups have always been magical but this one was that much more over-the-top<\/em>. Some of the musical highlights from Tiki Oasis 11 include the legendary “Mr. Bongo,” Jack Costanzo<\/strong>‘s superb Latin Jazz ensemble who just freakin’ NAILED<\/em><\/strong> it, tight and tough instrumental insanity from Los Straightjackets<\/strong> who were joined by our pal Big Sandy<\/strong> for a round of rock ‘n’ roll songs en Espanol, an excellent set of Herb Albert tunes from the tribute group\u00a0Herb,<\/strong> exotic and percussive Latin Jazz\u00a0sounds from Orchestra Superstring<\/strong> featuring some truly amaazing play between the percussionists as well as DJ Bonebrake\u2019s brilliant performance on the vibes,<\/strong> and the spooky exotic meets surf sounds of our own Creepxotica<\/strong> who played poolside, at the art show and wandered around the event dressed as Dia De Los Muertos mariachis with portable pig-nose amplifiers strapped to their outfits. To cap it all off, for the first time, Tiki Oasis extended through Sunday Night with a most entertaining show including two perfectly paced sets from exotica legends Don Tiki<\/strong> who filled the stage with exceptional musicians on their very first performance in California.\u00a0 As stated, these were highlights for me – the rest of the music? Two thumbs up!<\/p>\n

I’d have to write over a thousand words to truly cover the event from start to finish, so instead of going into detail about how great the symposiums, art,\u00a0 debaucherous room crawls,\u00a0 LuxuriaMusic.com<\/strong> and poolside DJs, the fabulous King Kukulele and Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid, marketplace, Otto’s muschache and Baby Doe’s circle skirt <\/strong>were,<\/strong> I’ll just load up this post with Tiki Oasis videos from our friends at Lost in Paradise<\/a><\/strong> and other various sources on YouTube so you can see for yourself the color and fun that this event represents and gives to its attendees. Don’t miss Tiki Oasis 12<\/strong>… Stay tuned for the scoop!<\/p>\n

I shot a video of Creepxotica playing outside the elevators as the room crawl action was going full steam with my iPod Touch – will post as soon as I upload and edit as I’m still catching up on work here. As more Tiki Oasis 11 videos pop up on YouTube I’ll put those up as well.<\/p>\n

Lee
\n(Photo:<\/strong> Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid<\/em> –\u00a0 by Scott Evanskey)<\/p>\n

Tiki Oasis Flicker Photo Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiki Oasis Facebook Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lost in Paradise videos<\/em><\/h3>\n


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