Lead Me To The Garden, by ‘Āina

Lead Me To The Garden

by ‘Āina

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1.	The Harmony Song 02:30	buy track
2.	Shine On, Humble Home 02:29	buy track
3.	Your Light 03:10	buy track
4.	Insouled In You 03:06	buy track
5.	Path Of Heart 02:35	buy track
6.	Nuclear Power 01:59	buy track
7.	America, Be One Man 02:42	buy track
8.	Many Roads 02:40	buy track
9.	Winds Of God 03:05	buy track
10.	Morning Star 02:24	buy track
11.	Light Of Me 03:00	buy track
12.	Arms Of Soul 01:59	buy track
13.	The Road To Go 02:09	buy track
14.	Lead Me To The Garden 03:25	buy track

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A rarely seen LP from 1980, combining spiritually driven, conscious lyrics with AOR, folk, psych rock and flourishes of Hawaiian music.

The story begins in 1977. Two young men met in the town of Mākaha on the island of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.

Howard Shapiro and Michael Joao loved Mākaha’s beautiful surf, uncrowded beaches, and homegrown music. They discovered a shared passion for music, but also for pressing issues like environmental protection, human rights, Native Hawaiian rights, and hunger and homelessness.

Together they formed the band Earth, which they soon changed to ‘Āina, meaning land or earth in Ōlelo Hawai‘i, the Hawaiian language.

During the 1970s, Āina performed throughout O‘ahu at various gatherings that addressed environmental protection and Native Hawaiian rights. In 1978, ‘Āina recorded a 7-inch single for Greenpeace, entitled “Greenpeace: To Save the Whales”.

In 1980, the band entered Honolulu’s Audissey recording studio and released their only LP, Lead Me to the Garden. The resulting album is a pleasant, uplifting spiritual journey of AOR and soft rock with flourishes of Hawaiian music, reminiscent of artists like Seals & Croft, America, and Hall & Oates. Well-known Hawai‘i musicians like Nohelani Cypriano and Dennis Graue (the composers behing “Lihue”) performed on the LP.

Working directly with Shapiro, Aloha Got Soul has updated the release for 2018 with three new songs from the musician’s solo catalog to complement the album with timely messages of Native Hawaiian activism.

Today, Shapiro resides in the quiet town of Volcano, near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawai‘i Island. Sadly, Michael Joao passed away unexpectedly in the early 1990s and never got to achieve his full creative potential.

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released November 21, 2018

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Since its evolution from a blog into record label, Aloha Got Soul has committed itself to exploring every corner of Hawaii for the best music, regardless of genre or generation. The blog launched in August 2010. In 2015, we launched our record label. In 2021, we opened a brick-and-mortar record store in Honolulu. ... more

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