Artist: Rinken Band
Album: “Party (Rinken Band Best)”
Record Label: Sony Records
Catalog #: SRCL-4369
Year: 1998
Tracks:
- Medetai Medetai
- Tinchi
- Umi tu Shima
- Sakiyodanu Niiri
- Nindaran
- Murika Muchibushi
- Yuntakutakutaku
- Yuu Yuu Yuu ∼You You You∼
- Naa
- Pon Pon Pon
- Yooi Yoi
- Hitotsu Boshi (Orchestra Version)
- Beach Party
- Mura Ichiban no Happy Joy
- Hatasugashii
- Tattaueeki
- Nachi nu Fwa
- Tin nu Kagan
- Kugani Michibushi
Notes:
Judging by the brief English language Wikipedia entry (yeah, I’ll join in one of these days) on Rinken Band, the music-loving world outside of Japan may not be too familiar with the group that I’ll proclaim as one of the greatest O-Pop (Okinawan, Uchinaa Pop) acts to come out of Okinawa. They’ve been releasing CD albums for two decades (1987’s “Arigatou” is our starting point) and a few of their albums are even available for download at the iTunes Store at a very reasonable price of US $9.99 per album (whereas a physical copy will cost you around double or triple that)! In the grand scheme of things, well, as far as the group’s discography goes, “Party” is not their only best-of album — it covers the period of recordings between 1992 to 1997 — as they would later release “Qing-dahmi” in 2000 and “URIZUN” in 2003. There’s word that they may perform at this year’s 25th annual Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani Park (HUOA) — we’ll have more on that as the date (or confirmation) draws closer.
yea i paid triple the amount in okinawa a while back 😦
if i only new i got almost all of rinken bands cds, talk about spending some money
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