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my not so pink diary.: okinawan festival.

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:52:24 -1000

my pride of being part-okinawan cannot be described in words. to be honest, i had only discovered my true ethnicity about 7-8 years ago since okinawan labor immigrants in hawaii tried concealing their real identities to avoid racism from the naichi (people from mainland japan). although my...

">my not so pink diary.: okinawan festival.:

my pride of being part-okinawan cannot be described in words. to be honest, i had only discovered my true ethnicity about 7-8 years ago since okinawan labor immigrants in hawaii tried concealing their real identities to avoid racism from the naichi (people from mainland japan). although my…

curiousitywillbetheendofme: Pokke 104 Sanshin Pretty cool.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:44:35 -1000

curiousitywillbetheendofme:

Pokke 104

Sanshin

Pretty cool.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29)

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:18:19 -1000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:58:42 -1000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22)

Film: “Minami no Shima no Furimun”

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:54:31 -1000

Film: “Minami no Shima no Furimun”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:18:42 -1000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)

nemoi: Hiyakon, Okinawa, Japan (via Kawa0310)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:24:31 -1000

nemoi:

Hiyakon, Okinawa, Japan (via Kawa0310)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:27:01 -1000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

Myron of Internet-Okinawa and O-pop trio Wizus

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:14:29 -1000

Myron of Internet-Okinawa and O-pop trio Wizus

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4)

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:04:39 -1000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4)

Okinawa Omedetai Uta Ketteiban (via Power of Okinawa)

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:51:13 -1000

Okinawa Omedetai Uta Ketteiban (via Power of Okinawa)

choukeru: I went to a music festival called “Peaceful Love Rock...

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:10:08 -1000

choukeru:

I went to a music festival called “Peaceful Love Rock Festival” today.

For some reason it really hit me hard after that that at this time next year I’m probably going to be packing up and leaving this place. Sometimes I think I can’t wait, but then I witness what I did today and want to stay here for ever.

After the last band, HY, the audience called for an encore. The band came back on, and declared that they would do a new song they’d written for peace, given the festival’s name, and the fact that two weeks ago was “Irei no Hi” - Peace Memorial Day - in Okinawa. Onto the stage they called some American chorus singers, because if they sang in both Japanese and English, they’d be incorporating two of the major groups involved in the war rather than just one.

They then called out 6 different eisa groups, who stood all around the stadium. Eisa is an Okinawan type of drum dance, seen in the above video (taken at an eisa festival we have called the “10,000-man Eisa Festival”. The song in the video is “Sanshin no Hana” by Begin, by the way - another beautiful song.) There were roughly 30 people in each eisa group, each person with a drum as in the video.

They then played this gorgeous song that I unfortunately can’t show, because they haven’t recorded it. But being in the centre of the stadium with 6 drum groups all playing simultaneously, with the sanshin and the music and the beautiful singing… the feeling was incredible.

And now it’s making me search YouTube for Okinawan music and getting me all teary-eyed about the fact that I one day have to leave this amazing place.

deanash: Rino Nakasone Razalan Rino Nakasone Razalan (stage...

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:09:40 -1000

deanash:

Rino Nakasone Razalan

Rino Nakasone Razalan (stage name “Music”), born June 11, 1979, grew up in Okinawa. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to Los Angeles to study dance. She later taught dance at a performing arts centers, and joined an all-female dance group “Beat Freaks”, which competed and was runner-up in America’s Best Dance Crew. She is married to Lee-J Razalan. Rino also choreographed for many Korean groups such as SHINee: Replay, Love Like Oxygen, & Juliette; f(x) (band): Chu~♡ & NU ABO; and Girls’ Generation: Sowoneul Malhaebwa (Genie). She is now part of girl-band The Pussycat Dolls.

She also choreographed Super Junior’s ‘No Other’! xD