BOOKS WITH CD'S

  Chaloookyu Eensai (Try Look YOU Inside)
A 2002 reprinting of the original 1972 version. Includes translations of the title piece in the five languages from which Pidgin (Hawaii Creole English) is derived. This piece is followed by “Ma Ket Stenle” (My Cat Stanley) and “Da Beegeeneen” (The Beginning) the story of Bradajo’s awakening experience in the wilds of Waimea Canyon. Calligraphically rendered, with nine photographs and a CD of the poet’s narration.
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  Foreeel (for Real), 2002
A collection of forty-eight calligraphically rendered single-page poems in Bradajo’s old-style Kaua’i Pidgin with CD narration.
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  Avebade Bade (Everybody’s Body)
Released by Mutual Publishing in 2002, this is the poet’s response to the events of 9/11. Hadley’s phonetic cursive is translated in English and is supported by 18 of his photos and a nine track CD. Jane Hopkins won the coveted Pele Award for the design of this beautiful hardback gift book.
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CD RECORDINGS

  Beya Fooots Days (Barefoot Days), 2002
This fourteen-piece narration by Bradajo in grassroots Hawaii pidgin tells the retrospective stories about growing up in the jungles of Kaua’i in the 1940’s. Will evoke the “Remember when…?” response for locals.
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  Soopa Hero Monsta (Superhero Monster), 2000
Influenced by comic books and scary movies of the 1940’s, Bradajo poses these sixteen true-life dramas as a “vehicle for deeper things to come through.” Sound effects and music by John Heartson.
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  Da Kapenta (The Carpenter) 2000
A collection of nine stories in grassroots Pidgin talk inspired by the Life and Teachings of Jesus from the Urantia Book. Original slack-key guitar compositions by Vinny Bryan and Will Wright.
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  Da Masta (The Master) 2000
“Triggered by the Urantia Book, I felt moved to scribe a sequel to Da Kapenta, to me the most significant of supernatural events, the Resurrection. Aware of John Heartson’s mastery of keyboard, I asked him to play what came to him as I narrated. That first take is what you hear.”

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  Supernatural Tales by Bradajo, 2002
A third generation Kaua’ian with a lifelong interest in things beyond appearances, Bradajo’s collaboration with the late “chicken skin” storyteller, Glen Grant, results in thirteen tales that pose the question: Is there more to life than what you see? Sound design by Kit Ebersbach.

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  Creecha Creecha (Creature, Creature) 2005
Referring tot he twenty one pieces that compose this recording as “Haiku Pidgin, ” Bradajo shares that the term Haiku “fills my need to highlight the sense of quiet that permeates this collection,” much of it written during an early 70’s sojourn at a beach cottage in Anahola, ease shore Kaua’i… “Have you ever dropped out of the rush of your daily life to simply sit there watching the natural creatures of our island home?” So, kick back and enjoy.

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