[Back in stock] Straight out of Okinawa — the debut album from Churashima (Beautiful Island) Navigator has arrived! Electric dance music, their foundation, fuses with Okinawan folk song, whisking you out of the everyday into another world and conveying the sheer joy of dancing. A really fine album. Highly recommended!
The long-awaited debut album from CHURASHIMA NAVIGATOR, a unit born out of sessions at the bass music party "budryukyu" between DJ SHINKICHI — a veteran of key Japanese underground units AOA and SOFT who relocated from Kansai to Okinawa — and DJ NU-DOH, an Okinawan kingpin who once moved to Tokyo and worked as part of AUDIO SUTRA. Ryukyuan folk singer and sanshin player Kanako Horiuchi joins as a session member, with guest appearances from Daiho Soga of cinema dub monks and HARIKUYAMAKU of SHIMA-DUB. Okinawan folk song meets dub, bass music and electronic dance music in an ethnic dance sound brimming with vitality and fun, awakening the original sacredness of dancing. It also carries a rebel music edge. A wonderful album has been born — don't miss it!
(Original Japanese text by Saito)
The long-awaited debut album from CHURASHIMA NAVIGATOR, a unit born out of sessions at the bass music party "budryukyu" between DJ SHINKICHI — a veteran of key Japanese underground units AOA and SOFT who relocated from Kansai to Okinawa — and DJ NU-DOH, an Okinawan kingpin who once moved to Tokyo and worked as part of AUDIO SUTRA. Ryukyuan folk singer and sanshin player Kanako Horiuchi joins as a session member, with guest appearances from Daiho Soga of cinema dub monks and HARIKUYAMAKU of SHIMA-DUB. Okinawan folk song meets dub, bass music and electronic dance music in an ethnic dance sound brimming with vitality and fun, awakening the original sacredness of dancing. It also carries a rebel music edge. A wonderful album has been born — don't miss it! (Original Japanese text by Saito)