HONOLULU - Two of Hawai'i's multi-talented musicians and composers - Bryan Kessler, formerly of the Hawaiian-Style Band, and Steve Jones, well-known local jazz musician and producer - have spent the past two years nurturing the development of a uniqu [+]HONOLULU - Two of Hawai'i's multi-talented musicians and composers - Bryan Kessler, formerly of the Hawaiian-Style Band, and Steve Jones, well-known local jazz musician and producer - have spent the past two years nurturing the development of a unique and special CD that should quickly find its niche - "Hawaiian Healing Journey." Unique, because this is the first Hawaiian CD specifically created to accompany and enhance the experience of a one-hour massage, meditation and relaxation. It is special because "Hawaiian Healing Journey" creates an experience for the listener to join an inviting 'i'iwi bird on its journey through Hawai'i's beautiful landscape - from the heavens at dawn to the pristine shore, from hidden valleys to a sacred heiau, into the womb of the island's magical and mystical, mist-laden rainforest, and then soaring back into the heavens over majestic mountain peaks into the light of a new day.
"My wife, Lee Ann Jones, is the general manager for the Hawai'i office of RAJA International Hawai'i, Inc. which teaches the Hawaiian art of lomilomi to Japanese students," said Steve. "She said there were so many New Age CD's out there, but nothing that was truly Hawaiian and specifically meant to accompany lomilomi. And that's how the seed of this idea was planted."
Jones and Kessler started brainstorming and decided that if they were going to do this, they were going to do it pono, the right way, and they embraced the project with a passion to create something truly unique, Hawaiian, and healing. It was also important, according to Kessler, to remove the "human element" as much as possible to keep the project one that focused on nature in its pristine glory. The idea of following the flight of the 'i'iwi came from a meeting with local artist Patrick Ching. The paintings of Hawai'i landscapes and native birds in Ching's studio captured the duo's attention immediately as having exactly the right "feeling" of what they were trying to convey with music. The CD cover features the 'apapane, an endemic species of honeycreeper that inhabits Hawai'i's forests, one of the landscapes we visit on our musical journey. Ching also introduced Jones and Kessler to the adaptable 'i'iwi, another honeycreeper that travels throughout the islands' vast terr
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