The second CD from Jim West is a collection of pieces commissioned by the National Tropical Botanical Garden for the dedication ceremony of the new McBryde Garden on Hawaii's Garden Isle of Kauai. The music can be described as a hybrid of Hawaiian slack key guitar and other world influences and is thematically based on the history of this beautiful paradise. Two bonus cuts from "Coconut Hat" are also included. The National Tropical Botanical Garden was, until recently headed by Dr.Paul Cox, a world reknowned ethnobotanist and author of the wonderful book, "Nafanua" which documents he and his family's experiences in American Samoa. His research on the use of native plants by Samoan healers has led to the discovery of some promising new pharmaceutical compounds and because of Dr.Cox's efforts, a large portion of American Samoa's most important rainforest has been saved forever from being decimated by logging. One of the NTBG's important missions is saving Hawaii's endangered species from extinction. Hawaii has the largest number of threatened plant populations of anywhere in the U.S. We highly recommend visiting any of the NTBG gardens McBryde, Allerton and Limahuli on the island of Kauai, Kahanu Garden in Hana, Maui and The Kampong in South Florida.

McBryde

Pump Six

Allerton

Dedication

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