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Season 2 of “Toki no Suisaiga”
New episodes of “Toki no Suisaiga” season two started airing at the beginning of the month. The new season brings back Miyazawa Kazufumi (The Boom) as narrator and Ryukyu classical music performances by Oyakawa Haruka. Check out their YouTube channel for the latest clips.
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Remote Eisaa Festival 2020 Rebroadcast
With the cancellation of this year’s eisaa festivities, Campus Records is rebroadcasting their Remote Eisaa Festival 2020 on their YouTube channel! They have also launched a Remote Eisaa Festival website with an online store (sadly, no overseas shipping) and are accepting donations (“throwing money”). Speaking of Campus Records, they’ve been releasing a lot of great…
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Gori Shares His 8 Favorite Songs from Okinawa
His staff had to get his favorite awamori into his system and once that was done Gori was ready to announce his 8 recommended songs from Okinawa (Uchinanchu artists). So without further ado, here’s his list in the order that he announced it (links go to YouTube videos): Ahane Ayano’s “Ookina Kaze“ BEGIN’s “YOU“ Parsha…
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The Sanshin Cafe Orchestra’s “Okinawan Cafe Music”
On August 11 The Sanshin Cafe Orchestra’s “Okinawan Cafe Music” album was released on music streaming services. The 2001 album is from a label created by Takara Records Store and they plan to release more of the catalog! The instrumental album is described as traditional meets ambient music — it’s definitely chill cafe music and…
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Miura Daichi to be Featured on AI’s “IN THE MIDDLE”
Miura Daichi is on a roll for 2021 and is featured on J-pop singer AI’s single “In The Middle”. Daichi also helped pen the lyrics and compose the music for the song so it definitely works to both singers strengths. Available on Apple Music on other music streaming services.
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Miura Daichi’s “Colorful” for Team Coca-Cola Reaches 1M Views
Miura Daichi participated in a group project for Team Coca-Cola with other pop artists and the song “Colorful” has reached over 1 million views on YouTube. The music video had its YouTube premiere on 7/19 along with a single that’s available on all streaming platforms. He’s the first artist on the video so you can’t…
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Live Camera Views in Okinawa
Missing Okinawa and looking for something to waste your time watch on YouTube? Search no further as we’re sharing three live camera views from Okinawa. The first live camera is a view of Kokusai-dori in Naha from the Ryukyu Shimpo building. Link. The second live camera is a view of the underwater observatory “real aquarium”…
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Shimabukuro Hiroko’s New Single “Something Great”
Coming ahead of SPEED’s 25th anniversary tribute album, Shimabukuro Hiroko released a new single on 8/5 “Something Great”. The digital single is available on all streaming platforms (gotta love it). She mentions in a tweet that it’s a strange feeling to have released a new song in the 25th year (her last release was in…
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First SPEED Tribute Album Celebrating Their 25th Anniversary
We can’t believe that this is the group’s first tribute album but what better time than during their 25th anniversary? Set to be released on 11/11, “SPEED SPIRITS” will feature fellow Uchinanchu ISSA (DA PUMP) and BENI. The entire list of artists hasn’t been revealed yet so hopefully we’ll see more artists from Uchinaa.
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HY Releases The First Take Singles
HY have done two The First Take videos with their song “366days” being the channel’s 100th and it also happens to be during the band’s 20th anniversary. The second video was for their song “Good Bye“. Now both songs are available on music streaming services! It’s amazing knowing that the recordings are live and in…
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