Upopo sanke

by Umeko Ando

Upopo sanke cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 December 2003
  • Label: Chikar Studio
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The revered Ainu musician delivers a deeply profound and culturally vital recording of traditional Indigenous Japanese music. Accompanied by minimal, hypnotic acoustic instrumentation and subtle natural field recordings, her incredibly powerful, resonant vocals utilize ancient call-and-response structures. It is a stunning, beautifully organic act of cultural preservation and spiritual expression.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, repetitive, forest, call-and-response, animals, traditional, vocal, folk, ritualistic, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. Chorakkun
  2. Eri Rimse
  3. Saranpe
  4. Iuta Upopo
  5. Suchochoy
  6. Chup Kamuy Ho
  7. Sarukiusinay Kotan
  8. Utari Opun Parewa
  9. Mukkkuri Hawehe
  10. Emusi Rimse
  11. Ku Rimse
  12. Herekan Ho
  13. Rera Suye
  14. Aruo

Credits

  • Masahiko Todoriki - overtone voice [khoomei], doshpuluur, igil
  • Masato Kimura - percussion
  • Norihiko Yamakita - percussion
  • Kapiw - vocals
  • Rekpo - vocals
  • Rikanreasi Ozeki - voice

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