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“Liʻulā”
by Taimane
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ABOUT THIS ALBUM
Li’ulā takes its name from the Hawaiian word for twilight, the dusk hour when light bends and glitters into mirage, giving rise to visions and the sense that the ordinary world has quietly slipped somewhere else.
This is a seven-song album about that exact hour. Set against a deep indigo sonic palette built from ukulele, ambient pads, haunting vocals, and traditional Hawaiian instrumentation, including ʻuliʻuli and ʻohe hano ihu (nose flute), the album dwells in near-recognition: water that resembles a face, a voice that echoes someone gone, a road that isn’t quite the one you remember. It moves from a chant-born awakening through moonlit water into a reimagined “Waimanalo Blues,” stripped down and made ghostly, then into “Nightmarchers,” where conch shells sound through the dark with the same bone-deep intensity as the pū that once warned of the marching dead, and a “Hilo Night” steeped in the real sounds of the island after dark, coquí frogs calling through the humidity to root the mirage in a true sense of place.
A farewell built from the same ache at the heart of Queen Lili’uokalani’s “Aloha ʻOe,” inspired by a farewell embrace she witnessed at Maunawili, extends into “Until We Meet Again,” a love that cannot survive beneath a Hawaiian moon turned mythic. The album closes on its own name, “Li’ulā,” settling back into the very threshold it opened in, the mirage never resolved, only returned to.