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Kahuna Kawentzmann
Surf / Lounge / Dub

"Kohls Kinder"

Berlin, Berlin
Germany

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Last Login:  9/5/2008
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   Kahuna Kawentzmann: General Info
Member Since5/23/2005
Band Websitekawentzmann.de
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Influences

A few people that influenced Kahuna Kawentzmann’s approach towards his music are of course the classic surf and rock’n’roll heroes like Elvis, Link Wray, Dick Dale and Cliff Gallup, but also guitarist/producers like Les Paul, Vincent Bell, Al Caiola and Ladi Geisler.
Long running influences on the German guitarist’s production-style come from Joe Meek and Phil Spector on one side, and Jazz (f.e. Cal Tjader) and 60s big bands (f.e. Bert Kaempfert) on the other. The naturally balanced soundscapes of the latter two are increasingly reflected in the more recent recordings, while The Tiki & The Guitar sculptures each individual track more freeform.

Reinhardt, Moore, Gallup, Dale, Edwards, Ogerman, Kaempfert, Rehbein, Setzer, Dickerson, Lyman, Denny, Müller, Meek, Morton, The Lively Ones, The Sandals, Almeida - just too many to name here, here’s more.




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Biography

- Kahuna Kawentzmann has been recording surf music since 1988
- the album Cool Surfin’ was released in 1994 with The Looney Tunes band (Hamburg, Germany)
- two more albums followed: Modern Sounds of…and Beyond The Dune (’95 and ’97 respectively)
- various line-ups of the band made small tours in Germany, until the summer of 1998, when the band broke up
- in the summer of 2002 Kahuna Kawentzmann moved to Berlin from Hamburg

The Looney Tunes were more or less a traditional surf-band, featuring the proper vintage equipment and line-ups from three to five members.The material was about one third Kahuna Kawentzmann tunes, one third surf classics and one third oddities, like german 60s soundtrack themes channeled through Kahuna Kawentzmann’s reverbed Fender Jaguar guitar.The range of influences in Kahuna Kawentzmann’s solo projects is a good deal wider.While always aiming at an early/mid 60s sound impression, he incorporates spaceage-bachelor-pad-music and exotica, soul and funk, and modern touches of breakbeats and dub echos.The Tiki relation in this whole project (The Tiki & The Guitar), apart from the obvious Exotica based title track, is regarded to Kahuna Kawentzmann’s time as a DJ. In those days his Tiki Lounge nights in Hamburg’s bars (the Meanie Bar and the Komet), were melting pot style events. With the same wide scope of music that today reflects in Kahuna Kawentzmann’s own music. Tiki being the god of the artist, and thus creativity, he was the charm, the bond to 60s Easy and Surf, 50s Rock’n’Roll and Jazz, as well as Bossa Nova and any tropical music that suited the particular hot summer night in Hamburg’s red light destrict, from Dub to Limbo, from Exotica to Steeldrums.



Discography

Tiki Traveling with Kahuna Kawentzmann 8 track album
The Tiki & The Guitar 12 track album
Je t’aime (moi non plus) on Beyond The Sea, V.A. (Cordelia)
Good Morning Starshine on Hair, V.A. (Omom)
Gogo Sitar on Oriental Club, V.A. (Universal Music)
See You In September on American Graffiti Re, V.A. (Omom)
Gogo Sitar on Soul Shaker Volume 2 V.A. (Record Kicks)
Gogo Sitar b/w Road to Estoril 7'' single on Stark Reality
Gogo Sitar on Mojo Club Volume 9 V.A. (Universal Music)

You see, the opener of The Tiki & The Guitar, Gogo Sitar, got it’s due recognition, with the other tracks waiting unpatiently in row.



Filmography

Prüfstand 7
(Next Film Filmproduktion, Robert Bramkamp, VCC Perfect Pictures AG)
used Sunrise Surf

Autobahnraser
(Constantin Film, 2004)
used Gogo Sitar

The DVD of Tiki
(Armchair Travelling, september 2007)
the 8 tracks on Tiki Traveling with… were composed for this DVD release




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Sep 4 2008 10:13 AM

LP Poster

Keep surfin' Kahuna! All the best from King Kandy! x
King Kandy





Sep 4 2008 5:04 PM

LP Poster

Thanks for adding us. Stay Kandy! From all at the 'Acid Beach Party' soundtrack team.

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Sep 3 2008 8:07 PM

Brandnew LP, Out now on Oetstar Rekkers:
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Sep 3 2008 12:45 PM

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Sep 3 2008 9:00 AM

This is not Jacques Dutronc on bass... he was guitar player with "El Toro et Les Cyclones" and gave "Les Fantômes" two songs he wrote but wasn't in this band.
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Sep 2 2008 7:50 AM

Same here my friend.
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Sep 2 2008 8:05 AM

Hope we can hook up for some future guitar work! Thanks.....HANS KARL - Film and instrumental composer www. hanskarlmusic. comPhotobucket
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Aug 29 2008 6:37 PM

Hello, thank you for the friendship and stopping by, I appreciate it and it is a pleasure to welcome you!

love the guitar music!

Have a nice weekend!

Jan :)
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Aug 25 2008 8:08 PM


NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!!

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Aug 25 2008 8:18 PM

Very nice to meet you! Greetings from Russia!
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Aug 19 2008 8:30 PM


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Aug 14 2008 8:42 AM

Retro-Sci-Fi meets modern Dancefloor: our new album Traveler is now available worldwide on CD and as MP3. Visit us and enjoy the trip through time and space.
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Aug 13 2008 12:12 PM

Welcome aboard!



Keep up the beat!







..

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Aug 13 2008 12:57 AM


just got back from testing the new koa board at honolii
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Aug 11 2008 6:52 PM

Thank you for my BD wishes!!

Have a great, SUNNY day!!

xoxo ~ T
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Aug 10 2008 10:45 AM

hey kahuna , thanks for the b-wishes , hope your well , cheers from aus , p.
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Aug 10 2008 1:20 PM

Thank you for the birthdaywishes :)!

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Aug 8 2008 5:29 PM

Hey!


WIR haben zu danken! ;)


lg Rike von AN-AUS-AN
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Aug 8 2008 5:41 PM

Ciao,
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Aug 8 2008 5:17 AM

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