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Miyazawa Kazufumi’s New Album “35” and Its Beautiful New Version of “Shima Uta”
Speaking of Oyakawa Haruka, here we find her on Miyazawa Kazufumi’s new album “35”, celebrating his 35th anniversary as a musician. Of course, no music of his is without heavy Okinawan music influences (he’s from Yamanashi in Japan), and this album showcases his sanshin talents and collaborations with HoRookies (the next generation BEGIN!) and Ryukyuan…
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Oyakawa Haruka Releases First Album “Aya-Modoro, Tsichi nu Wakachura”
Ryukyu classical music artist, Oyakawa Haruka, released her first album! The album is titled “Aya-Modoro, Tsichi nu Wakachura”, and contains a total of 14 tracks. She’s one of a few graduates of the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts who have been really active in performing in and out of Okinawa. Haruka also happens to be…
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Sorry Sho, It’s Kiyosaku for Us
Ok. So we’re going to cheat and say we like both Yonashiro Sho’s and Kiyosaku’s versions but, whoa, when Kiyosaku first starts singing it’s like goosebumps and the feels. We’re calling it for the next collab: Awich. Make it happen HY!
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Shimabukuro Masaru (BEGIN) MV for “Yorokobi no Blues”
If you haven’t heard it yet, stop reading this and open up your favorite streaming platform and give Shimabukuro Masaru’s first solo album “55rpm” a listen because it’s so beautiful. And because the album is beautiful, expect a music video for one of the tracks off of the album, “Yorokobi no Blues”, to be just…
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Nakasone Hajime’s “Yumangwi”
Wow. This video clip was an impromptu one that Hajime uploaded to his YouTube channel after feeling good vibes while taking a stroll on Henza Island. It could totally be an actual music video as everything was timed perfect. Enjoy!
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Coffee & Okinawa? Yes, Please!
We’ve seen coffee (albeit already ground and not whole beans) from Okinawa for sale in Japan, but did you know that there’s an official project under way to make large scale coffee production from Okinawa a reality? What is the Okinawa Coffee Project? The “Okinawa Coffee Project” started in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture in April…
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Rude-α’s “Perfect Chemical”
Speaking of Rude-α, in addition to his new band Bubble Baby, he’s still releasing new songs as a solo artist! How amazing is that?! His new track “Perfect Chemical” was released last month and a music video was made for it — he’s in the snow. In. The. Snow. ⛄️ The song is available on…
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HoRookies’s New Single “Kaerimichi no Theme” for Okinawa Gas
If you’ve been looking for the next generation BEGIN, look no further than HoRookies (not to mention that Shuntaro is the son of Eisho from BEGIN), and here they are with a brand new single “Kaerimichi no Theme”. The song is currently being heard on Okinawa Gas’s new commercials. Interestingly, the cover art was done…
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Rude-α’s New Band Bubble Baby is 🔥
After being humbled by Rude-α’s emotional song “Umui” for Okinawa’s Irei no Hi, we were wondering what would be next for the talented rapper. Perhaps taking a cue from this experience of creating music with a full band (the song featured an all-star team with Masaru from BEGIN, Yuki and Shuntaro from HoRookies, and hometown…
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Seven Oops “Seven Pops” Album Music Video features Utasha Nishihara Kazuki
On its own, Seven Oops‘s “Seven Pops” MV (yup, a music video of their entire new album!) is amazing enough but adding an appearance from Yaeyama utasha Nishihara Kazuki is icing on the cake. He appears on the second song “Play Ball”. We don’t recall ever seeing a band do this before and the result…
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