Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music) Newsletter

Jane's Pacific Islands Radio Newsletter (Island Music)
Vol. 1, Edition No.6, November 2004
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/

I N T H I S I S S U E _______________________________________

Objectives
News and Views
Pacific Islands Radio
Feature Artist
Suppliers
Links
Letters

Welcome everybody to our November edition
of Jane's Pacific Islands Radio Newsletter
(Island Music). I do hope that this Newsletter
finds you all well and that you are enjoying
the beautiful and enchanting sounds of
Pacific Island music.

I would like to extend a very warm and sincere
Pacific Island welcome to all our many new
members who have chosen to join us since our
last Newsletter. Welcome on board, please
make yourselves feel at home, relax and enjoy
the enchanting, vibrant, exciting yet soothing,
melodious and magical sounds of the Pacific
Islands!

OBJECTIVES

The objective of this Newsletter is to provide
supplementary information to the listeners of
our four Internet Radio Stations. These being
the two Pacific Islands Radio Stations as well
as Pacific Music Radio and Micronesia Music
Radio. This information will embrace some of
the exciting changes taking place in the
Internet Radio Revolution as well as updated
information on our Pacific Island Artists, as
well as Programming and Playlists.

NEWS AND VIEWS

MICRONESIA MUSIC ANTHOLOGY

Firstly, I would like to thank all those
wonderful and good people who have taken the
time and opportunity to enjoy the anthology
of Micronesia music which is available on
Micronesia Music Radio:
http://www.live365.com/stations/jane_resture

The anthology can be accessed by clicking on the
Broadcast Schedule after logging in to Micronesia
Music Radio. This should allow you (and our other
listeners worldwide) to determine when the anthology
is available in your beautiful part of the world. For
example, on the Australian Gold Coast, the anthology
is available at 12 noon each Saturday and Kiribati at
2 pm each Saturday afternoon. In California, the
anthology is available at 7 pm each Friday evening,
New York at 10 pm each Friday evening along with
Florida and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. etc.

The Broadcast Schedule can also be accessed at
the following URL:
http://www.live365.com/broadcast/scheduler/?stationname=jane_resture

The supporting Web site to the anthology
is as follows:
http://www.janesoceania.com/micronesia_music_anthology/index.htm

GOSPEL MUSIC

Pacific Islands Radio is very pleased to be able
to advise that a collection of some of the most
exciting and absorbing gospel music from the
Pacific Islands is now being featured on Pacific
Music Radio (FM mp3PRO Stereo), Pacific
Islands Radio 33K (24 kbps) as well as Pacific
Islands Radio 28K (16 kbps)

With an extended running time of three hours,
the gospel collection has proved to be extremely
popular and features the music of a number of
extremely talented artists and groups such as
Vanessa Quai (Vanuatu), Bata Teinamati,
Betania Gospel Singers and Emmaus Family
Singers (Republic of Kiribati), Lia Osborne
(Fiji), and The Auckland Pacific Gospel Choir.

Please monitor the Broadcast Schedule of the
above three Pacific Islands Radio stations for
the availability and time for the Gospel Music
collection. At present this exciting collection
is available at 12 midday Australian eastern
time.

PACIFIC ISLANDS RADIO

Pacific Islands Radio continues to offer a range
of broadcasting formats in order to allow a wide
range of listeners to enjoy our beautiful island
music. These formats, in terms of Connection
Speed and Sound Quality are basically as
follows:

STATIONS

Pacific Music Radio with a connection speed of
32 kbps is FM Stereo - FM mp3PRO;

Pacific Islands Radio 33K and Micronesia Music
Radio 33K with connection speeds of 24 kbps are
AM Quality; and

Pacific Islands Radio 28K with a connection speed
of 16 kbps is AM Quality.

Perhaps I should mention also that the previous
practice of specifying a minimum connection speed
has now been upgraded. Now, instead of specifying
a bitrate, our broadcast formats are specified in
terms of a combination of bitrate, sampling rate,
stereo mode and codec.

These changes have allowed the introduction of
Pacific Music Radio (FM mp3PRO Stereo)
broadcasting in high fidelity FM stereo as well
as allowing an upgrade in the fidelity of Pacific
Islands Radio 33K and Micronesia Music Radio
33K while still broadcasting at the same bitrate
(24 kbps).

Also, in the longer term, 33K will be referred
to as 24kbps and 28K will become 16 kbps -
please keep an eye out for these changes.

As usual, Pacific Islands Radio is always keen
to promote our talented island musicians
worldwide in order to satisfy the continuing
demand for our beautiful and distinctive Pacific
Island music! In this respect, should you know
of any island artists whose talents you would
like to see promoted, please contact me on:
jane@pacificislandsradio.com

Our four Pacific Islands Radio Stations play the
enchanting music of the Pacific Islands 24 hours
daily.
www.pacificislandsradio.com
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm
http://www.janeresture.com/radio/index.htm

Pacific Music Radio (mp3PRO)
http://www.live365.com/stations/drjaneresture
Pacific Islands Radio 33K (24 kbps)
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeresture
Pacific Islands Radio 28K (16 kbps)
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeres
Micronesia Music Radio 33K (24 kbps)
http://www.live365.com/stations/jane_resture

FEATURE ARTISTS

VANESSA QUAI

Congratulations must go to the remarkably talented
sixteen-year-old artist, Vanessa Quai from Vanuatu,
on winning the prestigious International Teenagers
Singing Competition at the Golden Star Music Festival,
held in Bucharest, Romania, from the 30th September
2004 to the 3rd October 2004.

Vanessa Quai won the First Prize out of 20 finalists!
Well done Vanessa! Pacific Islands Radio and all of
us are very proud of your outstanding achievement!
We wish you every success in the future! May God
bless you!

Vanessa Quai received her Golden Star Award from
Ms. Figen Cakmak, a Jury member, Composer/Lyricist/
Singer and Founder of the International Pamukkale
Festival in Turkey. All the Jury members comprised
international song writers, composers, singers, and
movie actors. The Jury was composed of the following:
USA-2; UK-1; Romania-2; Ireland-1; Malta-1; Turkey-1;
and Egypt-1.

The President of the Jury was Mr. Lane Davies from
the USA, a well known actor who has performed in
movies such as Hamlet, Good and Evil, The Crew
and many more...

Vanessa's three CDs - 'Pacifika', 'The Untouched
Paradise' and 'Beautiful Pacific Islands' are highly
recommended by Pacific Islands Radio and all tracks
are proudly featured on Pacific Islands Radio Stations!

For some beautiful photographs of Vanessa performing
and accepting this very important award in Bucharest,
Romania, you are invited to visit the following Web sites:
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/profiles/vanessa_quai/index.htm
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/profiles/vanessa_quai/pictures.htm

RSA BAND - APIA, WESTERN SAMOA

A truly talented and gifted group of Western
Samoan musicians and composers, feature
popular favourite songs from Samoa in their
own inimitable style with beautiful harmonies
and vocals. RSA Band music was recorded
LIVE at the RSA Nite Club in Apia, Western
Samoa, and remastered by Patrick Phan of
Accent Recording Studio, Auckland, New
Zealand. RSA Band is extremely popular
throughout the Pacific region and elsewhere
along with many listeners of our Pacific Islands
Radio Stations!

The RSA Band CD can be viewed at the
following Web sites:
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/profiles/polynesia.htm

THE MARSHALL ISLANDS NAVIGATORS

This band comprises nine female performers
along with five male musicians, vocalists and
composers. Their music embodies the very
best of Micronesian/Marshallese harmonies,
melodies and lyrics presented in a modern,
refreshing and very stylish manner. Their
magical Pacific Island sound is warm, bright
and uplifting. A listener is lured by the
enchanting and compelling sound and wants
to listen to it over and over again. Highly
recommended listening!
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/profiles/index.htm

COOK ISLANDS CULTURE

If there is one outstanding ability which appears to
be shared by all Cook Islanders, it is music and song.
Close harmony singing is highly developed in Church
music and the power and emotional impact of chants
and hymns at weddings and funerals is well known to
visitors who attend. The range and talent of popular
singing can be seen at the numerous festivals
throughout the year. Each island also has its own
songs and the various island groups compete fiercely.
There are numerous Polynesian string bands who play
at restaurants, hotels and concerts and they use
combinations of modern electronics with traditional
ukeleles fashioned from coconut shells.
http://www.ck/culture.htm
http://www.janeresture.com/cookislands/index.htm

KIRIBATI MUSIC

The people of Micronesia have a deep love of
music from contemporary to traditional. Music can
be heard in the early morning, while the toddy cutters
are at work until late at night to the accompaniment
of the traditional dance. Small children as young as
two years of age will sing songs many of which are
both difficult and traditional. Old people can often
be heard singing to their small grand children while
they are minding them.
http://www.janeresture.com/kiribati_music/

KIRIBATI MUSIC DOWNLOADS
http://www.indianvideozone.com/Ritati/

SUPPLIERS

The following are some of the main specialist
suppliers of our music from the Pacific Islands,
which are now being used and are highly
recommended by Pacific Islands Radio.

KINGMUSIC - AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Kingmusic offers a wide selection of Pacific
Island music which is available on the Internet.
Their mail order service is very responsive
with orders generally being dispatched on or
about the same day! I am very impressed by
Kingmusic's excellent service and I would
highly recommend a visit to their extensive
and excellent Web site:
http://www.kingmusic.co.nz/

ISLANDMELODY.COM

Pacific Islands Radio would like to
recommend Islandmelody.com for a
selection of traditional and contemporary
music with an emphasis on Micronesian
music.
http://www.islandmelody.com

BWANARAOI MUSIC SHOP -
TARAWA, REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

For Kiribati music, along with music from
other Pacific Islands and elsewhere, you are
invited to contact the following exclusive
distributor:

Bwanaraoi Music Shop
C/- Angirota Enterprises
P.O. Box 299
Te Ununiki
Bikenibeu, Tarawa
Republic of Kiribati
Phone/Fax (686) 28236
E-mail: angirota@tskl.net.ki

LINKS

A COMPARISON OF
AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES

The Austronesian language group probably
enjoyed the widest physical dispersion of a
single language family prior to the European
colonial expansion following Columbus. From
the island of Madagascar, off the east coast
of Africa, all the way to tiny, isolated Easter
Island (Rapa Nui), and extending into Taiwan,
Vietnam, Northern Australia, New Zealand
and most of the Melanesian and Polynesian
islands, the languages in this single family
show the common ancestry by the many
cognates (words in common) present.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8908/firemount/austron.html

I WRITE THE MUSIC

Micronesia music resources for composers:
http://www.iwritethemusic.com/micronesia.html

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LETTERS

The following are extracts from a few
of the interesting and most welcome
letters that I have recently received
about our four Pacific Islands Radio
Stations. I would very much like to
share them with you as I find many
of these letters to be most gratifying,
motivating and touching. Please join
with me in thanking these wonderful
people for sharing their thoughts
with us all.
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I was very fortunate to come across your
website now I would be able to send this
link to alot of my friends and family over
in the mainland to get island music blasting
out of their computers. Great work keep
it up

Dear Jane,
I've been meaning to write this for some time
now. I just want to let you know how much I
enjoy your Pacific Islands station on live365.com.
The music you play "talks" to me and is a super
way to pass the day while I'm working.
Have a wonderful day.
Best regards

Jane,
I thank you for this online radio station you
have, it's beautiful and now I can listen to
my Islands music from here in USA. I listen
to it every time I'm on net. I wish you put
more Chuukese and Yapese on and I also
like your music especially the church music.
So please keep it up and take care.

Hi Jane,
I have just found your website on Tonga. I
have found it very interesting and have
enjoyed the music playing in the background.
My son and I will be visiting Tonga in a few
months to visit my father's gravesite and we
look forward to enjoying some of the sights.
I did live in Tonga until I was 6 years old
and must admit I do not have many recollections
of the place but I look forward in anticipation
to at least walking where me and my family
did over 50 years ago.Regards

Just like to say good bands and music on your
station, nice to hear Fijian and south seas
music!!!!! Thanks again.from England.

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COMMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

These are always most welcome and can be
e-mailed to me at:
jane@pacificislandsradio.com

As usual, it has been my great pleasure to be
able to share this edition of our Pacific
Islands Radio Newsletter (Island Music) with
everybody.

Let us all hope for continuing peace and
harmony everywhere as well as for the people
of the Pacific Islands. As always, I look
forward to enjoying the pleasure of your
company next month. Thank you.

Best Wishes and take care everybody!
May our God bless us all!

Jane Resture