“OKI” released the new music song “UTUWASKARAP”

“OKI” just dropped the new and hot song “UTUWASKARAP”. It will contain the song 'UTUWASKARAP' . Enjoy the Electronic sound from the far east Asia.

This song is included in the OKI's first album[KAMUY KOR NUPURPE].It means "Let's understand one another".

You can find and check the “UTUWASKARAP” at 'Apple Music', 'Spotify', 'iTunes Store', 'LINE MUSIC', 'Amazon Music Unlimited' etc. Click here to see. UTUWASKARAP

• 1： UTUWASKARAP

  OKI

Relase date：2022-06-03

CHIKAR STUDIO

Genre： Electronic / Folk /

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OKI

OKI, born to a Japanese mother and an Ainu father, is a tonkori performer, bassist and visual artist. After graduating from the Department of Crafts at Tokyo University of the Arts, he moved to New York in 1987, where he worked as a special effects artist on film productions. Upon his return to Japan in 1992, he first encountered the tonkori-a traditional stringed instrument developed by the native Ainu people of Karafuto, an island now known as Sakhalin located to the north of Japan's northernmost prefecture, Hokkaido. Those days, the instrument was known as an unusual object that was displayed in museums but not actually played, as virtually no performers had inherited the traditional instrumentation skills. OKI developed a technique to play this forgotten instrument, and soon began to create his own music. In 1996, he released his first album Kamuy Kor Nupurpe. Shortly thereafter, he established Chikar Studio to encourage and support Ainu artists, and promote Ainu music around the world. Chikar Studio has since released 23 albums, including titles by the traditional Ainu singer Umeko Ando and the all-female vocal ensemble Marewrew, which sings traditional dance songs called upopo with a modern sensibility. Built upon recordings from around the 1940s and '50s collected by ethnomusicologists, his album Tonkori (2005) brought back the instrument's sound for modern-day audiences. While valuing both traditional Ainu music and cultural identity, OKI's albums like OKI DUB AINU BAND (2006) and Sakhalin Rock (2010) achieve a genre-fluid music expression that infuses blues, reggae, dub and more. Oki Dub Ainu Band features the tonkori in a band setting with drums, bass, keyboard and dub mixing board. They often perform at music festivals in Japan and overseas, including in Africa, Europe and Asia. In 2019, OKI produced the albums mikemike nociw by Marewrew and Amamiaynu, a collaboration project between Ainu musicians and musicians from Amami-an island located between Japan's southernmost prefectures Kagoshima and Okinawa. Most recently, in January 2022, OKI's first compilation album Tonkori in the Moonlight was released from a UK label, Mais Um Discos, on both CD and LP. Immediately after its release, the album rose high on world music charts in Europe and has received significant international media attention. Since his debut album, OKI has continued to feature Ainu lyrics and language in his works. In addition to traditional songs handed down to today, OKI has released original songs in the Ainu language, created with Kuzuno Tatsujiro (1910-2002), a respected and prominent figure in the Ainu community. Further, songs such as "Oroso Omap" and "Tawki" in Sakhalin Rock feature original Ainu lyrics written by the children of the Asahikawa Ainu Language School in Hokkaido. Additionally, OKI's third album, No One's Land (2002), mixes voice recordings from the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (whose 15th session he attended in 1997) with indigenous guest artists such as singers from Chukchi (the northeastern most part of Siberia) and poets from East Timorese (Malayo-Polynesian and Papuan region). OKI received the Hokkaido Cultural Encouragement Award in 2008. The New York performance of this three-city tour marks his first appearance in NYC since 2003.

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