These Tralis Leave The Island

Born out of the 60's hippie movement and rooted in the lush landscapes of Hawaii, These Trails were never really a band as much as they were just a collective who wrote songs. Their sole record, issued in 1973, never made any huge ripples outside of their native Kuai but thanks to the fine folks at Drag City, the album has now been polished and reissued.

Never have an ARP, Hawaiian percussion, and other folk instruments combined to create a psychedelic island experience that sounds like something out of the original Dharma Initiative. It's hippified, peaced out, mellow, and lost in its own little world. And quite honestly, it's half crazy as well.

If you read this section regularly you know that I'm not a big fan of folk, and this does kind of wear thin after a while, but I can appreciate how this is "original" folk done by hippies on an island in the 70's and where they're coming from. If you love folk and psychedelia, you'll fall in love with the gentle strums and island breezes of These Trails.