Jeff Gere

PREPARE to get SCARED in Jeff Gere’s 2nd chilling collection of true supernatural contemporary islander tales. Hear about the disappearing rider on the Punchbowl Bus  (13:46). Meet a drunk uncle who dares to confront the Nightmarchers, spirits of the Dead Hawaiians (7:30), and what happened after (Uncle’s Epilogue 2:47). A “Sensative” (11:50) girl is possessed by spirits until the ti plant sets her free.Then come three disturbing tales of Samoa’s Teleasi “SPIRIT WOMEN” (Palangi Tale (8:35), Boy Bow Bird (10:30), Take Me To Afono (10:17) (see video).

In this exceptional recording,  Jeff’s dynamic telling merges with the eerie soundscapes of Les Adams (keyboards) and Sandra Lee Akaka (percussion). They’d never met Jeff and had not heard these stories, though they’ve recorded together many times since. Their spontaneous improvisation here are alarmingly, chillingly effective. This CD is NOT for young children. Really! And it WILL give you “chicken skin!”

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P.O. Box 37495, Honolulu, HI 96837, HI 96837
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ALSO AVAILABLE: Haunted Hawaii, Volume 1 & Volume 3 (all with different stories)., Written permission & credit is legally & ethically required when using this material. Eh, just write to Jeff!


ISLAND MELE: REVIEW by John Burger
Honolulu Star Bulletin, Saturday October 8, 2005

    Spooky tales represent only a fraction of storyteller Gere’s repertoire, however, and his recordings approach spooky material in a different way. Gere’s storytelling prowess adds comic shadings to the stories at times, despite the basically grim material. With his second album in the “Haunted Hawaii” series, Gere includes spooky stories from Samoa as well.

    Several were shared with him by local kids. There’s the tale of the bus driver who picks up a mysterious woman in the Punchbowl area, and another about a loudmouth uncle who dares to challenge the dreaded “night marchers”. A third describes a case of demonic possession. Two of the Samoan stories contain lessons for young listeners. A boy who kills birds and sasses his elders learns the error of his ways. A near-death experience teaches two men not to work when they should be in church.
   
    Les Adam (keyboard) and Sandra lee Akaka (percussion) embellish Gere’s work with just enough music to set the mood or underscore key moments in the narrative.

    While spooky stories come into vogue in the weeks leading up to Halloween, Gere’s tales have year-around appeal.

 

         "What a wonderfulstory CD visit to the island of my youth! The vivid visual images (onthe bus to Punch Bowl) and the Chinese Cemetery were so real: Irevisited my UH (‘56-60) days and the language of my friends. Thesounds you produce are amazing. How well you go from kid to parent, andthe chanting of ancient Hawaiian ghosts. Thank you- my memory of thespirits of those teenage Honolulu kids was beginning to fade. Throughyour voice, I relived them again."
     -Harold Wright, Illinois teller/author/ Japanese scholar