Auntie Irmgard and Puamana - Palehua Recording Sessions (Circa 1998)
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Auntie Irmgard and Puamana - Palehua Recording Sessions (Circa 1998) with tags rmgard farden aluli, hawaiian music, hula, traditional hula, hula dance, hawaiian hula, puamana, mountain apple company, hawaiian culture, hawaiian heritage, hawaii, mele hawaii, oli, island music, hawaiian song, live recording, archival footage, 1995, vintage hawaii, hawaiian legacy, aloha spirit, hula performance, hawaiian dance, polynesian dance, cultural preservation, hawaii history
Around 1998, a few months before we released the Puamana record, Irmgard and her daughters moved into Mountain Apple Company Studios at Palehua for an entire week, completely uninterrupted, isolated from the distractions of daily life. Our only purpose was the music.
Each day had a natural rhythm. We'd record through the morning, pause for lunch, talk story, then return to the studio and record again through the afternoon and into the evening.
I almost always had a digital video camera in my hand. The footage was never meant to be formal documentation, just home video. But looking back, those recordings preserved something far greater than the sessions themselves. They captured the feeling of that week.
There was storytelling, laughter, and reflection. Personal memories, family memories, cultural history. And hours and hours of music.
Something important happened at Palehua that week, not just the making of a record, but the preservation of a legacy, lived in real time.
- Jon de Mello producer, The Mountain Apple Company
00:01 Session 1
05:03 Break and Chat Before Session 2
05:20 Session 2
06:29 Auntie Irmgard Working out Lyrics
07:17 Session 2 Continued
08:46 Session 3
9:44 Auntie Irmgard Talking Story During Rehearsal
10:24 Session 4
11:20 Session 5
14:59 Auntie Irmgard Solo
18:38 Auntie Irmgard Talking Story with Jon de Mello During a Rain Break
22:25 Session 6
26:34 Session 6 Continued
29:03 Session 7
30:25 Auntie Irmgard Doing Dishes
31:05 Auntie Irmgard dancing Hula to Puamana
35:27 Auntie Irmgard Listening to playback for One More Round
37:01 Auntie Irmgard Talking about her Father and Growing up
49:30 Session 8
55:04 Session 9 - Auntie Irmgard listening to the Girls
