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TRIPLE-P
One of the many indies music artists (I’ll blog about the others in the coming weeks) that caught my attention this past March in Okinawa is the hip-pop (hip-hop, rap, J-pop) duo TRIPLE-P. The duo of SHUN and Alice is on the same indie record label as the popular mixture band HY, Climax Entertainment Inc.,…
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Not Your Father’s Sanshin Uma
Continuing with the sanshin-related posts… Driving your family or neighbors (or both – yikes!) nutty with your late night sanshin practicing? There’s a uma (the free-standing bridge for the sanshin) that greatly mutes your playing no matter how heavy your picking style is and can be purchased for around ¥800. As pictured above, the uma…
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Other Ways to Tune Your Sanshin
Here’s additional information on gear you can use to help with your sanshin tuning. AW-1 Micro Tuner from Korg — all the cool kids are using it. TU-12 Chromatic Tuner from BOSS — the ol’ standby which I’ve owned for over 15 years but used mostly for guitar/bass tuning. Pitch Instrument (P-13E) from Tombo —…
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Searched Again on Karakui: Tuning Your Sanshin
Looks like there are still a lot of you who are finding us through a search for learning to tune your sanshin. We posted an entry about a neat little freeware app called Sankichi-kun at the beginning of the month. The only thing is that the app is in Japanese so here’s a quickie explanation…
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Karakui Passes the 3,000 Hits Mark
Coming home from my vacation (where I basically stayed away from my ‘Book and the internet) and finding that we hit the 3,000 mark (we were close to 2,000 hits in the beginning of the month) made me feel like getting back to blogging sooner than the we’ll be “back in time for April Fools’…
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okinawaBBtv International
OkinawaBBtv has been a pretty nifty place on the web to get your Okinawa fix i.e., if you can read Japanese. (I’ve given them quite a bit of hits for their Miuta Taishou videos although they have yet to upload the artist I’m really waiting for, Akane Murayoshi.) And while the majority of their site…
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Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
We’re going on vacation and will be back in time for April Fools’ Day. Till then, enjoy our “classic” posts and visit our sister site, Internet-Okinawa.com too. 😀
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Keith Nakaganeku and Calabash at Borders This Week!
Want to hear one of the most beautiful voices on the island? How about a chance to listen to Hawaiian, Japanese and Okinawan music at the same place? Well, you’ll get all of those great things if you step away from your Mac/PC and head on over to the Borders at Victoria Ward Centre this…
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Tune Your Sanshin with Sankichi-kun
Looks like one of our visitors found Karakui through a search with the keywords “okinawan sanshin tuning”. I could possibly upload an mp3 (or m4a) file of my tuning of a sanshin but it’ll be a whole lot cooler to download this wonderful freeware app called “Sankichi-kun” (available versions for Mac OS 9, Mac OS…
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Rimi Natsukawa’s ‘Video Clip Collection’ and ‘Umuikaji’ Hits Stores on March 9th
Victor Entertainment will release a new Rimi Natsukawa DVD on March 9th titled “Video Clip Collection” which will be her third DVD release but her first collection of PVs (promotion videos). Beginning with her first single (under the Victor label) “Yuubae ni Yurete” on to her latest “Furusato”, there are a total of 11 videos…
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