Mello Exotica

24/10/2025

✨ Molly Lewis — Whistling in the Key of Paradise 🪶🌴
If Martin Denny conjured jungles from pianos and Arthur Lyman painted them in vibraphones, Molly Lewis breathes them to life with nothing but air and lips — a siren’s call from some imagined South Pacific dream.

The Los Angeles whistler, composer, and muse of the modern lounge revival has become one of the most quietly spellbinding figures in today’s Exotica lineage. Her songs feel like postcards from a film that never existed — one part Blue Hawaii, one part La Dolce Vita, and one part fevered daydream from a record collector who’s fallen asleep beside a tiki torch.

From her collaborations to her soundtracking of candlelit hotel bars and velvet-curtained theaters, Molly carries the essence of that lost art — elegance, melancholy, and mystery wrapped in tropical heat.

Her debut LP drifts between worlds: old Hollywood sophistication, Polynesian fantasy, and a humid, hypnotic kind of beauty that would make Les Baxter blush.

So pour yourself something over crushed ice, put the needle down, and let her whistle carry you beyond the palms — to the place where dream and desire blur into one long exhale.

🎶 Available now at Mello Exotica — where rum, rhythm, and reverie meet.
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www.MelloExotica.com

24/10/2025

Laguna Beach Tiki Trip 🌴
Headed out for the Cabali & The Tiki Mug Obsession screening at the Newport Beach Film Festival + the after party at the Royal Hawaiian. Laguna was the perfect setting for some Polynesian Pop escapism.

23/10/2025

🌋💀After Party: Cabali & The Tiki Mug Obsession 🥃🔥
Tiki Illuminati Meeting at The Royal Hawaiian.

22/10/2025

🗿Cabali & The Tiki Mug Obsession 🌋
The 2nd screening at the for an incredible documentary by director Josh Dragotta. The documentary follows Fini Finical as he sets out to build a tiki bar dedicated to tiki mugs. What unfolds is a story of community, artistic vision in a commercial reality, friendship, loss and a brilliant glimpse into the subculture of Tiki, Polynesian Pop, and of course Tiki Mugs.

Every bit as compelling as George Butler’s 1977 documentary “Pumping Iron” which followed Arnold Schwarzenegger and provided a look into early bodybuilding. Cabali & The Tiki Mug Obsession brings to life Fini and a cast of Polynesiacs that are unforgettable including BigToe, Ken Ruzic, Kate Flannery, BeachBum Berry, Sven Kirsten, Holden Westland, Tiki Rob and many others that make this community so vibrant and unique.

The soundtrack was put together by Tony Marsico and the Martini Kings.

An exciting film from Josh Dragotta and an accomplishment golf a lifetime for Fini Finical. The city of Tucson is fortunate to have such tiki visionaries.

21/10/2025

🥥🌴 “Mana Flow” Pendant Necklace by JaTiki 🗿🌋
Limited to just 20 hand-carved pieces, each necklace carries the spirit of Mana — the creative energy that flows through all living things.

This is the first in a series of JaTiki x Mello Exotica exclusives. Each tiki pendant will be a limited edition not to be repeated.

Every pendant is signed and numbered by JATIKI, co-signed by Mello, and hand-strung with beads. Each one holds its own energy.

As JATIKI says:
“Authenticity is essential in everything you do. Mana is the creative energy that flows within us all — take the time to discover yours.”

⚡️ Limited edition of 20 – Available now exclusively at www.melloexotica.com

20/10/2025

🌴 The “Mana Flow” Pendant Necklace🗿
🌺 Mello Exotica x JA TIKI 🌋
Limited to just 20 hand-carved pieces, each necklace carries the spirit of Mana — the creative energy that flows through all living things.

Every pendant is signed and numbered by JA TIKI, co-signed by Mello, and hand-strung with beads. Each one holds its own energy.

As JA TIKI says:
“Authenticity is essential in everything you do. Mana is the creative energy that flows within us all — take the time to discover yours.”

⚡️ Limited edition of 20 – Available now exclusively at www.melloexotica.com

18/10/2025

Cabali & The Tiki Mug Obsession 🗿
This weekend is the debut of Fini’s new documentary film about his tiki mugs and the tiki bar created to house them. The film sold out of its first two screenings at the Newport Beach Film festival so they added another showing. Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Newport Beach with the after part at The Royal Hawaiian in Laguna.

16/10/2025

🌺 Malihini • Fresh Aloha 🥥
The Mello Exotica Bamboo Closet just added this vintage 70s Malihini Hawaiian Shirt to our private collection.

15/10/2025

🪐 COSMIQUE HYNOTIQUE 🌴 EXOTICA CLASSIQUE

New single from Michigan based Exotica ensemble: A Lust Beyond (on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple, Qobuz). Hypnotic grooves, velvet arrangements, coral soul.

The group prepares for the release of their full debut album this coming February with a new song today.

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14/10/2025

Cosmique Hypnotique - A Lust Beyond

Michigan based exotica ensemble Cosmique Hypnotique are gearing up for their debut self titled album on Mello Exotica. The newest single "A Lust Beyond" is live now on Bandcamp and DSPs.

Pre-Order the album and add it to your tiki playlist!

11 track album

05/10/2025

🌴 Orrede “Vibrant Paradise” 🌺
The Mello Exotica closet is full of vintage and fresh Aloha shirts. Everyone in tiki seems to have their favorite style and for us it’s often tropical flowers that draw us in. We just picked up Orrede’s new “Vibrant Paradise” shirt for our collection because of its over the top colors.

The Vibrant Paradise aloha shirt from Orrede is hibiscus, ginger, and jungle leaf — a full technicolor tropical dream.

Natural shell buttons, soft drape, and a print dense enough to get lost in. Orrede’s approach is a nod to classic island tailoring - comfortable and 100% cotton.

A slice of paradise, stitched for the modern wanderer. 🌋

15% off code: TIKI15
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