FarsideMusic: "Dub Ainu"
One of the unexpected hits at this year's WOMAD festival in Reading was OKI Dub Ainu Band. The mix of Ainu -indigenous Japanese- music played on the tonkori, a skinny stringed instrument that produces hypnotic bass lines with dub and other modern influences, wowed the audience on two stages and listeners to Charlie Gillett's BBC London radio show broadcast live from the festival. ...Dub Ainu is a mini CD of remixed versions of tunes from some of OKI's previous albums and of the late Ainu elder female singer Umeko Ando [who died last July]...more...
