This impressionistic portrait evokes images of the sea. Keola composed Blue Water Dolphin when the beauty of the water in West Maui inspired him to buy a boat. I'd work my gig at night, then go fishing in the day. The coasts of Maui, Lana'i, Kaho'olawe and Moloka'i are very close to each other. In these blue waters, dolphins are abundant.
Dolphins like to play.
After many delightful encounters, it's as if they become friends. Based on a traditional chant, He'eia describes Kalakaua surfing at the song's namesake location on the leeward side of the Big Island. They have so much soulfullness and nobility. They're over a hundred years old but they speak so strongly to us today. At the transition to He'eia , he quotes from the haunting traditional song, No Ke 'Ano Ahiahi .