Some of our favorite local hapa bands :
San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland

The Hapa Haole Boys
Jeff Kazor, Kurt Stephenson, Erik Pearson

The Swerve Beats

These following albums are recommended by our staff and arranged in aphabetical order by the artists' names. To best serve you, we have teamed up with Amazon for shipping and payment. If you have any question or suggestion, please contact us. Thank you.

Maui
by Hapa

Blending jazz, blues and even slam poetry influences into their Hawaiian based music, HAPA fuses Hawaiian music with the influences of other Polynesian cultures.
Sample other great albums by HAPA: Collection, Hapa, In the Name of Love, Namahana, and Holidays.

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Fighting Style Killer Panda
by Mommy and Daddy

Vietnamese and Caucasian Vivian Sarratt, plays bass and sings while her husband, Edmond Hallas, provides punk-style vocal and keyboard electronic trickery. "Turbo-speed drumbeats, jagged bass lines, and half-sung, half-shouted vocals... altogether enticing musical orbit. It's a place where instrumentation veers sharply toward the minimal..." – Remix

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California
by PC Munoz and the Amen Corner

"Everything from (muñoz's) colorful clothes to the exotic Chinese drums he records with and his complicated cultural background screams variety...." –- Delfin Vigil, San Francisco Chronicle

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Pepe & the Bottle Blondes
by Pepe & the Bottled Blondes

An eclectic, 'Copacabana style' ensemble of saxophones, congas and percussion, trumpets, and three-part harmonies combines the talent and visually arresting performance that echoes the indulgence of the 1950's nightclub chic.

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Sympathique
by Pink Martini

Hang on Little Tomato includes songs in French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Spanish and English, features mostly original songs written by the band and its extended family.

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Sympathique
by Pink Martini

Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brasilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini.

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World Lounge
by various artists

Putumayo's music collections bring cultures together through music. The world record label takes people on a global journey to countries such as Cuba, Senegal, Ireland and Mexico. As members of Social Venture Network, Putumayo contribute a portion of their proceeds to support non-profit organisations that do good work in the communities where the music originates.

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World Playground
by various artists, Putumayo Series

Putumayo's music collections bring cultures together through music. The world record label takes people on a global journey to countries such as Cuba, Senegal, Ireland and Mexico. As members of Social Venture Network, Putumayo contribute a portion of their proceeds to support non-profit organisations that do good work in the communities where the music originates.

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