Four Sisters (they are real sisters) were one of the first female vocal quartets, a format later used by Nenes and others. This fantastic CD is 16 tracks of some of the great traditional minyo songs.

Deigo Musume was a sisters chorus group who shared the limelight with the similar Four Sisters from the 1970's. Both groups are kind of forerunners to the later Nenes. On this compilation album they sing traditional masterpieces, including an anti war song written by their father, the album conveying the post war spirit in Okinawa. Rinsho Kadekaru plays sanshin on one song.


Price:   £18.99

Another female chorus group formed in 1993. One of their songs 'Yui Yui' written by Sadao China of Nenes fame, became popular after it became the theme for a children's TV programme.

Like Nenes but more traditional and with six female singers. Yui Yui Sisters celebrate their 10 year aniversary with a new album that includes their own material, 'Warabi No Kuichaa' and some of Okinawa's best known songs, 'Shimajima Kaisha', 'Asadoya Yunta' 'Basho-Fu' and 'Manshuku Bushi'.Great stuff.


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From Yaeyama, Tetsuhiro Daiku has one of Okinawa's most distinctive voices. On this CD he is joined by his wife, also an excellent singer on an album of standard minyo folk songs from Yaeyama.

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Thirteen tracks of Okinawan Eisa drumming, the spectacular and colourful festival drumming tradition.

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Okinawa's greatest traditioanal musician, joins up with Okinawa's finest eisa drumming group, Sonda Eisa for a truly exceptional album. Recorded in the 1980s, including a live track. Bubbling over with the atmosphere of Okinawa.

Criminally short CD of Eisa drumming. Only if you are a real afficionado.


Price:   £14.99