Product Description
For some reason, while the mainland of Okinawa struggles to produce any young musicians to record traditional music, Amami island, not strictly a part of Okinawa at all, has a surfeit. Nami Makioka at 18, is the latest to record her first album and very good it is too. Perhaps nothing that sets her apart from her contemporaries, and probably without that extra something of Rikki, but nevertheless, this is still an amazingly self assured debut. Simple, traditional, sanshin and vocals.
