Las Vegas 1965. The Rat Pack, the mob and law enforcement all tangled up in one hell of a pie-throwing rage.

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Washinnayo……. Don’t forget….. This mysterious and imperative outcry is a call
from one of the most beautiful spots on this earth, the Okinawan Islands.
It reminds us to embrace tradition and take it with us into the future, here beautifully 
represented in a unique collaboration between Dutch soundscape artist
Pascal Plantinga and the godfather of Okinawan pop, Shoukichi Kina.
Washinnayo comes spectacularly packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve designed by 
interdisciplinary artist Toyoko Shimada. Her graceful Golden Dragon juxtaposes
high-tech and ecology in times of tradition and modernity.
A juxtaposition also found in the music, where Pascal Plantinga’s sparse arrangements 
featuring bass, electronics and field recordings provide the perfect pedestal for 
Shoukichi Kina’s sanshin (the ubiquitous three-stringed Okinawan instrument) and voice, 
presented here at its most expressive and emotional.



Shoukichi Kina - Pascal Plantinga SHIMA GUWA (excerpt)

Washinnayo……. Don’t forget….. This mysterious and imperative outcry is a call
from one of the most beautiful spots on this earth, the Okinawan Islands.
It reminds us to embrace tradition and take it with us into the future, here beautifully 
represented in a unique collaboration between Dutch soundscape artist
Pascal Plantinga and the godfather of Okinawan pop, Shoukichi Kina.
Washinnayo comes spectacularly packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve designed by 
interdisciplinary artist Toyoko Shimada. Her graceful Golden Dragon juxtaposes
high-tech and ecology in times of tradition and modernity.
A juxtaposition also found in the music, where Pascal Plantinga’s sparse arrangements 
featuring bass, electronics and field recordings provide the perfect pedestal for 
Shoukichi Kina’s sanshin (the ubiquitous three-stringed Okinawan instrument) and voice, 
presented here at its most expressive and emotional.


Shoukichi Kina - Pascal Plantinga KUNJAN SABAKUI (excerpt)

Bird In Disguise

Enchanting electronic folksongs from Okinawa featuring one of the island’s most prominent voices
Plantinga’s fascination with the rich musical life of the Okinawan islands led to the   collaboration with Keiko Kina. As a daughter of Shoei Kina, perhaps the greatest of all   Okinawan minyo singers and sanshin players, and sister of Shoukichi Kina, the most famous star to emerge from the Ryukyu Islands, Keiko has a lifelong tradition in indigenous Okinawan music. Here she performs two local classics, embedded in lush electronic arrangements.


01 Yonaguni Shonkane

Intimate soundscape pop from the air with Pyrolator, Haco, Frank Fenstermacher, Shingen Suzuki and Volker Bertelmann.

Originally a soundscape piece composed of field recordings made at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, this production gradually transformed into a sultry collection of intimate 
soundscape songs.
With Japanese vocalist Haco, whose contributions were recorded at the airport, 
the record assumed its definite shape once members of the Ata Tak entourage started 
to frequent the studio sessions, leaving their footprints all over the recordings. 
The outcome is Plantinga's original method of wry storytelling against the background of a rich and layered musical score.


PASCAL PLANTINGA

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