Ainu musician Oki and Irish group Kila met in Japan a couple of years back and knew instantly they liked eachother and eachothers' music. Indigenous Ainu and Irish roots might not be the most obvious of collaborative choices but this one seems entirely natural, probably due to the pure fun they clearly derived recording together. Neither partner dominates, with 4 Ainu tunes and 4 Irish ones featuring tonkori (Ainu zither) plus fiddles, banjos, dulcimers, flutes and whistles with vocal duties also shared equally between OKI and Ronan and Colm of Kila. Comes with a free 4 track CD single of their first collaborative recording Tog e go Bog e, which you can listen to as the sound sample.
