Great news! If you’ve been holding off purchasing that Seijin Noborikawa album because it was DRM’d (not to mention that it was also previously available at 128 kbps) now is the time to purchase it. I’ll have to do a more comprehensive search (the tracks I’ve found so far are from Respect Record) for other artists but music from Okinawan artists are available as iTunes Plus tracks, or DRM-free. An album I highly recommend is Sadao China’s (that’s pronounced chee-nah) “Utamaai” which is available in iTunes Plus too. I had Sadao sensei autograph my copy of the album and he said it’s one of his best (it’s also his latest album). Lovely. 🙂
