Ka Honua Maluhia: Peaceful World By Jim Kimo West

 

Ka Honua Maluhia: Peaceful World

By

Jim Kimo West

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

Jim Kimo West has been bringing us smooth chilled acoustic compositions for some years now, and it is always a pleasure to kick back and listen to the wonderfully calming performances of the guitarist. Born in Canada, Jim lives in the US, but his heart is most certainly in Hawaii, where he spends several months each year and is a place that is a constant source of inspiration for the musician. Once more we get to take a musical holiday with West, as we listen to his latest offering Ka Honua Maluhia: Peaceful World.

This new offering is packed with healing vibes and such chilled refrains; one cannot help but be relaxed by the content within the album, like the opener Frangipani, a piece that is full of happiness and light, then my personal favourite, the quite gorgeous Cloud Forest, a track with an almost eastern ethic, and one very transcendent flute too.

Tradewind Serenade is typical West territory, slow, laid back and easy on the ears, and those of us that live in really warm countries appreciate this, I can honestly tell you.

Another picturesque portrait of perpetuity was the boundless beauty of The Sleeping Waterfalls, a simply idyllic track that offers up so much tranquillity from a wonderfully serene and masterfully calm performance on guitar by the artist.

This is most certainly one, if not the most personable and listenable albums I have had the pleasure to encounter this year so far, it has 12 tracks of idyllic beauty and one fine example of that is the penultimate offering Tropicbirds. Only last night in our pool, we watched with awe a flock of beautiful sea birds heading for home at sunset, this song would have been the perfect soundtrack for that event.

West is joined on the album by bassist Jimmy Johnson, violinist Ben Powell and George Abe who plays Japanese flute and bells.

Ka Honua Maluhia: Peaceful World by Jim Kimo West is going to be a constant on my player this summer and I hope it will be on yours too, each and every track is a world of tranquillity all of its own, each and every song has been manifested into this world by a man who clearly knows how to give the people exactly what that want. I would recommend this album to anyone, it is blissful beyond comparison.