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🌋❄️ Hawaiian Snow & Surf 🌊🌺
Final Days of Winter in Hawaiʻi
Curated by Kai Keahikekoa
This is not a vacation playlist.
This is Hawaiʻi between seasons.
Winter in the islands is layered. Kīlauea still breathes fire. Mauna Kea still holds snow. The North Shore still roars. Kauaʻi drips green. Maui hums with motion. Molokaʻi widens into silence. And through it all, Hawaiian artists carry land, memory, and forward motion in their voices.
🌋 HAWAIʻI ISLAND
Fire & Snow
1. “Kuʻu Home O Kahaluʻu” – Olomana
We begin with home. Before volcano or summit, there is belonging. Harmonies rooted in shoreline simplicity.
2. “Kuʻu Leo Aloha” – Josh Tatofi
A modern Hawaiian voice rising warm and steady. Aloha here is not softness — it is strength carried gently.
3. “Ke Aloha I Ka Puʻuwai / He ʻIli Ula Au A He Hawaiʻi” – Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu
Red earth. Red skin. Identity forged in lava fields. This is volcanic ancestry in chant form.
4. “The Beauty of Maunakea” – The Brothers Cazimero
We climb above the clouds. Snow glows against black rock. Awe replaces noise.
5. “Kaulana Nā Pua” – Mele ʻAi Pōhaku
Snow carries memory. Resistance travels in melody. Protection is sung, not shouted.
6. “E Hō Mai” – Kealiʻi Reichel
A request for wisdom before descending the mountain. Humility before movement.
🌊 OʻAHU
North Shore Swell
7. “North Shore Serenade” – Na Leo Pilimehana
Winter waves roll thick and heavy. Beauty with power behind it.
8. “She Was the Best” – The Green
Salt spray, reggae pulse, lineup energy. The ocean moves and so do we.
9. “Island Style” – John Cruz
After the swell, bare feet in the sand. Simplicity as philosophy.
🌺 KAUAʻI
Bloom & Rain
10. “Nani Kauaʻi” – Hema Paʻa
Red dirt roads and impossibly green cliffs. Pride in place.
11. “Kāhea O Kauaʻi” – Kūpaoa
The call of the island. Kauaʻi doesn’t whisper. It summons.
12. “Hanalei Moon” – Dennis Pavao
Falsetto drifting across taro fields. Moonlight settling over Hanalei Bay.
🏖️ MAUI
Motion & Warmth
13. “Drop Baby Drop” – The Manao Company
Windows down. Late-winter sun bright but not yet summer-hot.
14. “You Kuʻuipo” – Willie K
Blues-tinged island love. Maui soul in full voice.
15. “This Is the Life” – Kolohe Kai
Youthful optimism. Shoreline movement. The season loosening its grip.
🌌 MOLOKAʻI
Land & Solitude
16. “Molokaʻi Jam” – Kekuhi & Kaumakaiwa
Chant-rooted grounding. Fewer lights. More sky. The land first.
17. “Ka Nohona Pili Kai” – Kealiʻi Reichel
Living close to the sea. Quiet rhythm over spectacle.
18. “ʻĀina Molokaʻi” – Hoku Zuttermeister
Tender devotion to land. Nothing flashy. Everything true.
🌅 TURNING LIGHT
Mid-Pacific Reflection
19. “Hawaiʻi 78” – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
A question carried on ocean wind. What have we protected? What have we lost?
20. “Hoʻomau (How Long)” – Kolohe Kai
Perseverance as a season. Winter transforms — it does not disappear.
🌊 Final Reflection
This playlist moves geographically and emotionally:
Hawaiʻi Island → Oʻahu → Kauaʻi → Maui → Molokaʻi → Horizon
Fire to snow.
Wave to garden.
Crowd to open land.
Question to continuation.
Hawaiʻi between seasons.
Still breathing. Still enduring.
Hoʻomau.
Kai grew up surrounded by maps, gear, and pulse-pounding soundtracks, and by his mid-teens was documenting experimental subcultures, restoring drones, and pitching ideas most editors would consider too risky. He thrives in kinetic environments and isn’t afraid to leap first and learn midair.
