![]() My mom used to listen to her brother's music a lot and they used to have a traditional Hawaiian group that they toured in. I wanted to interpret it like the music that I grew up with. On the song "I Killed Captain Cook" It's my approach to Hawaiian music. Ruban Nielson's mother, Deedee Aipolani Nielson, performs hula dance to Unknown Mortal Orchestra's "I Killed Captain Cook." YouTube I think that that we have that in common. Then, everything that happens when she's not dancing is kind of like her waiting to dance again. Another thing about mom, that when she's dancing, that's her real self. ![]() It's what she lives for, you know? I think the feelings and everything that we experienced in Hawaii kind of ended up being the thread that kind of like tied all of the songs together and made the record make sense. ![]() I think it was quite a big deal for her to come back because she was a big deal in the hula world. I moved my mother back to Hawaii, back to the big island where she was born. So I had to put music aside and stop thinking about it for a while. ![]() Because there's like a laundry list of tragedies that hit my family all at once. After a few years my family became much more important than the band, and I hadn't been on the road for a long time, so I started to focus more on things that were happening in my family. I was interested in the really epic, pop rock songs from '70s and '80s bands like Toto and Journey. To listen to the audio version, click the link above. The following interview has been condensed and edited.
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