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In 2003, when Randy Wong and Abe Lagrimas Jr. established their musical partnership, they were motivated by a feeling familiar to many far-flung transplants: homesickness. The two friends were studying in Boston at the time\u2014Lagrimas at the Berklee College of Music and Wong at the New England Conservatory\u2014\u201cexperimenting as musicians with different concepts for being local boys away from home,\u201d says Wong, who plays bass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two projects formed out of that experimentation, an ukulele-forward trio called Akamai Brain Collective, and Waitiki, an exotica quartet inspired by Arthur Lyman, Les Baxter, and other forefathers of the genre. They launched the two acts on the college l\u016b\u2018au circuit, performing at Hawai\u2018i Club events at Boston University and Harvard, then observed which was more popular. \u201cWaitiki is the concept that won,\u201d Wong says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the next two decades, Waitiki emerged as one of the preeminent acts in the revival of exotica, a form of tropical lounge music that emerged post-World War II in the U.S. and peaked in popularity leading up to Hawai\u2018i\u2019s statehood. \u201cExotica music became so popular in the \u201960s that it became clich\u00e9,\u201d Wong says, adding that genres like surf rock came to replace exotica in appeal. Today, it\u2019s music you\u2019re most likely to hear in a tiki bar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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