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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Sunday, May 2, 2004
Japanese Music Special including an interview with
Celebrate Golden Week in Japan with
our approximately annual Japanese Music Special.
Japanese roots
and neotraditional music, world music and ethno-grooviness, enka, quirky pop,
etc. Special focus on the islands south
and north‚ Okinawa and Hokkaido, including an interview with the innovative Ainu (northern
indigenous) musician/producer Oki
Kano in the last half-hour.
Oki Kano homepage
/ song clips at http://www.tonkori.com; info in
English and cds at http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/OKI.html
.
Farside music is an excellent
English-language source for exploring (and acquiring) Japanese and Okinawan
roots and world music and for East Asian music in general. Great capsule descriptions of the cds
by proprietor (and Resonance FM,
London dj) Paul Fisher. http://www.farsidemusic.com/
Other online sources we
came upon while researching this show: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/
and http://us.yesasia.com/en/Japanese/Music.aspx
Our favorite Japanese cd
(and book) shopping outlet in NYC is Book-Off at 14 E41 St.
The shop's large and varied selection
of used Japanese cds includes a good deal of indie-label material not found at
the few other Japanese cd shops in the NYC area. Click here for a blurb.
This Week's Playlist:
(* = new)
Happy End:
Kaze Wo Atsumete
/ Various Artists: Lost in Translation Soundtrack
/ Emperor Norton
Featuring Haruomi Hosono
Happy End:
Shin Shin Shin
/ Hosono Box
/ JVC
Featuring Haruomi Hosono
El -Malo: Ice Cream / Super Heart Gnome / Toy's Factory
Fairchild: Broken Children / Comme a la Radio / Pony Canyon
Rip Slyme: Track 9 ("Spinning Wheel") / Five / WEA
Kikusuimaru: Tansu de Dansu / Hore Hore Hare Hare / Triad
Sandii and the Sunsetz: Alive / Heat Scale / Alfa
Ry Cooder: Going Back to Okinawa / Get Rhythm / Warner
Rinkenband:
Nenjyukuduchi
/ Rikka
/ Wave
With Three Mustaphas Three
Hirayasu Takashi: Kozarenka / Various Artists: Island Music Collection Volume One / Respect
Kina Syoei: Track 11 (Live) / Okinawa Minyo Nasake Uta Special / Mu Paradise
Ryukyu Underground: Mo Ashibi / Mo Ashibi / Respect / *
Shang Shang Typhoon: Do Do Do / Shang Shang Typhoon 9 / M & I
Soul Flower Mononoke Summit: Kaigara Bushi - Aran Peni / Asyl Ching-Dong / Respect
Haruo Minami: Aizu Bandai-san / Teichiku NL-2034
Misora Hibari: Track 20 / Denon AL-4070
(?):
Daigaku-no-onechan
/ Various Artists: Cutie Dolls in University Soundtrack
Contributed by listener Julian in Japan
B & B 7: Ivy Tokyo / Hit Songs in Folk Style / JVC
(?):
Seven O'Clock
/ Various Artists: A Slope in the Sun Soundtrack
Contributed by listener Julian in Tokyo
Haruomi Hosono: Roocho Gumbo / Bon Voyage Co. / Crown
Akanars: Go Go Chinbora / Various Artists: Rough Guide to Okinawa / World Music Network
Umeko Ando:
Track 20
/ Upopo Sanke
/ Chikar Studio
/
*
Produced by Oki Kano
Oki Kano:
Kane Ren Ren
/ No One's Land
/ Chikar Studio
/
*
Vocals by Rekpo
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