Thanks for licensing this for remix. I used it in the soundtrack of a 2-minute, noirish videopoem: http://www.vianegativa.us/2013/10/the-silent-banjo-videopoem/

http://music-nayward.blogspot.com/2012/07/paper-shop-projects.html

 Welcome to the group SCORE! Just approved this track. Excellent!

really great tension and the distorted instrument hits and textures sound great!!!

Was going for a Frankie Cosmos sort of thing and it ended up sounding a little Jens Lekman.

Capacity v. Consumption

A solo track from a collaborative EP with yana-imi. Stream/purchase at https://yanaimi.bandcamp.com/album/imi-ru-yataru-just-a-dream-ep

Sakura And Parking Lots

Are You Sure? (Eleventh Hour Escape Fantasy)

Another jam from Heart MTN. who have a new album, Year Three, up on Bandcamp.

https://heartmtn.bandcamp.com/album/year-three

Year Three

Heart MTN. - Escape Velocity

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe were interviewed for the Pan-Asian Radio Hour on 99.5 WBAI in NYC on October 9, 2017, at 9 pm. We were interviewed about our anthology "Queering Contemporary Asian American Art." You can check the show out on the web at http://asiapacificforum.org.

You can learn more about the book by visiting: http://www.queeringcontemporaryasianamericanart.com.

Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI 99.5 in NYC: Interview with Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe

Track 4 from from the "surreal, so real" demo/EP. Listen to all 7 tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/yoshimasukamiya/sets/surreal-so-real-ep OR download the digital album (including printable artwork) and donate here: http://yoshimasukamiya.bandcamp.com/album/surreal-so-real-ep

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influenced by Tatsuhiro Oshiro’s novella, “The Cocktail Party” (1967) 

“Under the most desperate and unimaginable circumstances, Okinawans directly experienced the absurdity of war and atrocities it inevitably brings about.” - Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum (1975) 

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SYNOPSIS: In U.S.-occupied Okinawa, Japan, a local teenage girl is raped by a U.S. serviceman. As they come to terms with the fact that justice may never be served, the girl’s family is also forced to deeply reexamine their feelings toward the U.S. military’s postwar occupation of their country. 

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BACKGROUND: Since 1945, 14 U.S. military bases have been built on the islands of Okinawa. According to the Okinawa Times (“Crimes Committed and Incidents Concerning U.S. Military on Okinawa,” Millard, October 12, 1995), there have been at least 21 reported cases of women – including underaged girls – being murdered or raped by U.S. servicemen between 1955 and 1995 (the most notorious being the 1995 gang-rape of a local 12-year-old girl perpetrated by 2 U.S. Marines and 1 U.S. Navy Seaman). Many of these violent crimes were charged under U.S. jurisdiction, which often resulted in much weaker punishments for those who were actually convicted. 

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PRODUCTION: 

recording/arrangement/mixing: Logic 8 
programming/synths: Reason 3 
live instruments: sanshin [Okinawan lute]

written, performed, and recorded by Joseph Yoshimasu Kamiya under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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Uchina noir: The Cocktail Party [instrumental]

durian eyes

the parts we could not abandon

flesh

shatter

don't (like me)

1989

STOP building a U.S. military base in Okinawa: http://bit.ly/riseforhenoko

New project: @yanaimi

神谷嘉益(カミヤ•ヨシマス) | 第４世代アジア系アメリカ人、琉球(沖縄)と日本のルーツ | 4th generation Asian American,  Ryūkyū (Okinawa) x Japan roots

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Uchina noir: The Cocktail Party [instrumental]

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