The display will also include the Ainu string instrument tonkori. "Japan is a country of such diversity, and in 2024 we will be dedicating our spaces to celebrating this through food, design ...

This album was produced by Oki Kano a musician of mixed Japanese and Ainu ancestry who plays the Tonkori, a traditional Ainu stringed instrument. His work usually mixes the Tonkori with outside ...

In February, OKI released Tonkori In The Moonlight, an ambitious and genre-spanning compilation of songs recorded between 1996 and 2006 that would go on to be one of tQ’s favourite compilations of the ...

It would have been sung at bear-sending rituals in eastern Hokkaido.” On “Iso Kaaari Irehte (Bear Trap Rhythm)” OKI plays the tonkori – a five-stringed instrument thought to have arrived in the main ...

In particular, it’s a great opportunity to hear the sounds of traditional Ainu instruments, including the mukkuri, a type of mouth harp, and the tonkori, a plucked string instrument. The Kamuy Lumina ...

In his Houston debut, OKI performs solo pieces as well as contemporary works with his band members from their new album Tonkori in the Moonlight, released in January 2022. All events are subject ...

Elsewhere in the show, we’ll hear the voice of American folk-jazz mystic Terry Callier and music by Ainu musician OKI, playing the tonkori, a five-stringed harp. Plus there’s scrambled presets ...