Ainu artists

- tartalo said...
- User
- 16 Jul 2007, 14:19
Ainu artists

Alternate names: Ainu Itak
Dialects: Sakhalin (Saghilin), Taraika, Hokkaido (Ezo, Yezo), Kuril (Shikotan, Tsishima). The last speaker of Sakhalin dialect died in 1994. There were at least 19 dialects.
Classification: Language Isolate

Killer language: Japanese
Main reasons: Destruction of local economy, Language suppression in school, Lessened legal situation, Social stigmatization

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ain

STREAMABLE ARTISTS
Oki is a Tonkori player. An interview to Oki

NOT STREAMABLE ARTISTS
Kila & OKI

Do you know artists that should be in this list? Please answer to this thread

Last.fm groups:
Endangered Languages

[quote][b][user]tartalo[/user][/b] said: [b]Alternate names:[/b] Ainu Itak [b]Dialects:[/b] Sakhalin (Saghilin), Taraika, Hokkaido (Ezo, Yezo), Kuril (Shikotan, Tsishima). The last speaker of Sakhalin dialect died in 1994. There were at least 19 dialects. [b]Classification:[/b] Language Isolate [b]Killer language[/b]: Japanese [b]Main reasons[/b]: Destruction of local economy, Language suppression in school, Lessened legal situation, Social stigmatization http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ain [b]STREAMABLE ARTISTS[/b] [artist]Oki[/artist] is a Tonkori player. An [url=http://www.globalrhythm.net/WorldMusicFeatures/Oki.cfm]interview to Oki[/url] [b]NOT STREAMABLE ARTISTS[/b] [artist]Kila & Oki[/artist] [b]Do you know artists that should be in this list? Please answer to this thread[/b][/quote]

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- Harfang said...
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- 5 Feb 2010, 07:51
I know you're not maintaining this, but just so you know: The album Mon-O-Lah by Nagane Aki is in full tracks on last.fm and is a world-folk-fusion thing featuring Aki playing the mukkuri, also known as the Ainu jew's harp. (If you have an urge to correct me and say "mouth harp" or "jaw harp," I can assure you that I'm obsessed with Turkic-Altaic and all other Siberian and Central Asian music, and I'm Jewish, and I call it a jew's harp; so don't worry about it.) The thing is that the album has vocals that sound like field recordings. I assume they are in Ainu, but on the other hand, maybe Aki just got herself Willy Lomax's Smithsonian compilation CD/s and threw some random shamanistic chant on there. I cannot tell the Tungus language group from the Paleo-Siberian and so forth (and I know Ainu is neither), though the chant doesn't sound Turkic. So if whoever recommended the above artists to you can recognize Ainu when they hear it, you'd probably want them to check the album and make sure it ~is~ in Ainu. The presence of the mukkuri doesn't make it a done deal, and I don't know how culturally Ainu (versus assimilated Japanese) the artist herself is. The album is also for sale at eMusic.

Mon-O-Lah

[quote][b][user]Harfang[/user][/b] said: I know you're not maintaining this, but just so you know: The album Mon-O-Lah by Nagane Aki is in full tracks on last.fm and is a world-folk-fusion thing featuring Aki playing the mukkuri, also known as the Ainu jew's harp. (If you have an urge to correct me and say "mouth harp" or "jaw harp," I can assure you that I'm obsessed with Turkic-Altaic and all other Siberian and Central Asian music, and I'm Jewish, and I call it a jew's harp; so don't worry about it.) The thing is that the album has vocals that sound like field recordings. I assume they are in Ainu, but on the other hand, maybe Aki just got herself Willy Lomax's Smithsonian compilation CD/s and threw some random shamanistic chant on there. I cannot tell the Tungus language group from the Paleo-Siberian and so forth (and I know Ainu is neither), though the chant doesn't sound Turkic. So if whoever recommended the above artists to you can recognize Ainu when they hear it, you'd probably want them to check the album and make sure it ~is~ in Ainu. The presence of the mukkuri doesn't make it a done deal, and I don't know how culturally Ainu (versus assimilated Japanese) the artist herself is. The album is also for sale at eMusic. [album artist=Nagane Aki]Mon-O-Lah[/album][/quote]

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- siebensunden said...
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- 5 Jan 2012, 17:06
Umeko Ando

[quote][b][user]siebensunden[/user][/b] said: [artist]Umeko Ando[/artist][/quote]

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