Aloha mai kakou! Contemporary Honolulu is such a vibrant mess! In this episode, you'll meet a musician who blends cultures and influences in a way that really gets at it. Multi-instrumentalist Ted de Oliveira is a performer, composer and music producer under the name: FRNT BZNZZ.

Ted's dad is legendary percussionist Carlos de Oliveira---who once bested 499 others to be crowned the champion Pandeiro, or tambourine, player in Brazil. You can imagine the competition.

Ted's mom is singer, ethnomusicologist, Sandy Tsukiyama, the host of Brazilian Experience, one of Hawaiʻi Public Radio's most popular programs.

Here, Ted describes his particular confluence of cultures, and takes music making apart, to how itʻs done collaboratively by guys with synthesizers. Fun! Ted hasn't scrimped on living, and he brings in aspects of culture so easily. Heʻs a communicator who has thought about things. And the music is great.

Hear the entire Festivao de Azeitona, Festival of Olives, recording

https://frntbznzz.bandcamp.com/album/festival-de-azeitona-olive-festival

Finding FRNT BZNZZ music online has gotten a lot harder in the last year, or is it just me? Glad I purchased all my downloads.

This is two good tracks and a Soundcloud interview

https://soundcloud.com/alohagotsoul/sets/ags-7009-frnt-bznzz

An example of the Aloha Got Soul releases

https://alohagotsoul.bandcamp.com/track/separation-anxiety-2  

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