Sakishima Islands Mix
Here is my latest music mix which can be listened to now online at K.O.L. Radio. This time it’s a mix of songs from the Sakishima Islands that stretch from Miyako to Yaeyama. The playlist contains some of the best-known traditional songs from these islands as well as some more modern compositions.
The first six tracks are from Miyako and inevitably, there is a song by Miyako’s most famous traditional singer Genji Kuniyoshi who died recently. It is followed by a track from his former pupil, Tadayuki Matsubara, whose debut album is released next week. The Miyako section ends with Satoru Shimoji’s epic arrangement of ‘Togani Ayagu’.
The duo Sakishima Meeting (Isamu Shimoji and Yukito Ara) provide the link between Miyako and Yaeyama that leads into the Yaeyama part of the playlist and takes us to the islands further south. This begins with a song from the late Ishigaki singer Yukichi Yamazato. He was the mentor for Tetsuhiro Daiku whose sparse recording of the most representative Yaeyama traditional song ‘Tubarama’ ends the playlist.
The playlist order is below with artists and song titles:
Hirara ‘Tsunahiki nu Agu’
Isamu Shimoji ‘Banta ga Nmari Zuma’
Genji Kuniyoshi ‘Irabu Togani’
Tadayuki Matsubara ‘Pyarumizu nu Kuicha~Yonamumi nu Anigama’
Miwa Yonashiro ‘Nariyama Ayagu’
Satoru Shimoji ‘Togani Ayagu’
Sakishima Meeting ‘Sakishima no Tema’
Yukichi Yamazato ‘Shibiraoza Bushi’
Parsha Club ‘Gokoku Hojo’
Yasukatsu Oshima with Kanako Hatoma ‘Kunatsuyu’
Hidekatsu ‘Mirukumunari’
Suguru Ikeda ‘Densa Bushi’
Begin ‘Taketomi-jima de Aimasho’
Hatoma Family ‘Tsuki nu Kaisha’
Ayame Band ‘Donan Shima’
Tetsuhiro Daiku ‘Tubarama’
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