Something to do with Love: Oki and "Kane Ren Ren"

OKI-"KaneRenRen" from BrotherByTheNameOfMagoo on Vimeo.

Indigenous Japanese musician Oki Kano, also known as OKI, brings us the random tune for today. An Ainu Japanese musician who studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he plays the tonkori, guitar and traditional Ainu percussion, and mixes traditional Ainu music with dub, reggae and other types of world music. He has collaborated with the traditional female Ainu musical group Marewrew (who can be heard in this song) and his own Oki Ainu Dub Band, which does traditional Ainu songs in an electric style with dub rhythms. You can find this song, Kane Ren Ren, on his 2002 album No-One's Land.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.