🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs

Umeko Ando:
🎵 Ihunke

#UmekoAndo

https://umekoando.bandcamp.com/album/ihunke

https://open.spotify.com/track/3kqIHub5fzvuuYCxVCG2Ir

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs

Umeko Ando:
🎵 Battaki

#UmekoAndo

https://oki-tonkori.bandcamp.com/track/oki-feat-umeko-ando-battaki-grasshopper-dance

https://open.spotify.com/track/2pgDuLXThwaMgzbMfLPbWI

Impulse buy. I'll be reading up later. For now, I'm letting waves of magic, mediative chant wash over.

This is gold.

#umekoando

Umeko Ando

Japanese folk singer in North Japan
This Ainu culture is important on the continent of Hokkaido, and its past history and culture are somewhat similar to that of Sámi folklore on music in the peninsula
It is characterized with using a stringed instrument 🪕sounds of like a harp

#UmekoAndo #Ainu #Ainuculture #Japanesefolklore #folklore #Hokkaido #sami #Yoik #Joik
https://umekoando.bandcamp.com/album/ihunke