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HY’s New Single “LOVE”
HY recently released a new digital single “LOVE” on 11/6! The single has been chosen to be the theme song for the Haisai Project (ハイ祭プロジェクト) which is a collaboration between entertainment professionals creating an event together with children. The name of the project is a play on the word haisai using hai in katakana and…
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Miura Daichi Participates in Sada Masashi Tribute Album
Released on 10/25 is the tribute album “Minna no Sada” to Japanese folk singer Sada Masashi and Miura Daichi is one of the artists featured on it! Daichi covers the song “Kaze in Tatsu Raion (The Lion Standing in the Wind)”. Speaking of new releases, Daichi announced that his next album, “OVER”, his first original…
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MONGOL800 Tribute Album 800TRIBUTE
Released on 10/25 (so many amazing released on this day!) is a tribute album for our favorite punk rock band MONGOL800. The new album is called “800TRIBUTE-champloo is the BEST!!2-“ and has a total of 9 tracks featuring Okinawan artists Awich and Mitsushima Hikari (we love that she returned to being a singer!). As far…
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Awich. The Union. New Album is Out!
Wow. She released the amazing “Queendom” just last year and here is Awich with a brand new album “THE UNION“! It was released last night and we’ve been listening to it non-stop. One song that’s missing that we thought she would include is her remix of MONGOL800’s “Ryukyu Aika” (it can be found on her…
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Ishimine Airi’s Memorial Song “Minazuki no Hana”
Having recently performed with her group Aimamire, to an enthusiastic crowd at this year’s HUOA Okinawan Festival, singer Ishimine Airi (who we proclaimed to have one of the best voices in the industry) released a beautiful single on 6/23 as a tribute to Irei no Hi (Okinawa’s Memorial Day) titled “Minazuki no Hana” (June’s Flower).…
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Anly’s 5th Album “26ml”
Our beloved singer-songwriter from Okinawa’s Ie Island Anly is set to release her 5th album “26ml” on 10/18! 🎉 We don’t have any links to streaming platforms at this time but we’re pretty sure we’ll get them soon. For now, physical copies of the album are being sold on online retailers with special limited edition…
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YU-KA on The First Take (YouTube)
Singer-songwriter YU-KA continues her dominance on the new music scene with an appearance on the prestigious YouTube channel The First Take! YU-KA performs her song “Hoshizukiyo (Starry Night)“. Episode 330 welcomes YU-KA, a singer-songwriter fluent in both Japanese and English, to THE FIRST TAKE for the first time. She will sing “Starry Night,” a song…
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Two New Nendoroids from Okinawa Anime to be Released
We believe this is a first. The popular hobby series Nendoroid always has a lot of upcoming releases and fans of the series and of anime may have felt snubbed that only Miyazawa Fuuka (from the anime Aquatope on White Sand) was released instead of the Okinawan character Misakino Kukuru. So in Quarter 3 they…
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Parsha cluB to Release New Eisaa Collection Album
Longtime readers of Karakui/Riccin know that we’re BIG fans of Parsha cluB. We view the band as a bridge between Rinken Band and BEGIN, and also as a link to new music created by Yonaha Toru and others. So it’s with great pleasure that we see a new 30th anniversary album from them of eisaa…
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Nakasone Hajime’s Amazing 2023
One of the nicest and humblest humans we’ve met, Nakasone Hajime is having an amazing 2023 and it’s much deserved. He recently announced his marriage and now he has a new album “En” that will be released on June 3rd. Can you believe that it’s already been 7 years since his previous album “Ten” was…
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