BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.13//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:288@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230823T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230823T223000 DTSTAMP:20230801T194809Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/oki/ SUMMARY:OKI (Sold Out) DESCRIPTION:Lost Property Arts Collective CIC present: OKI (Sold Out)\n\nBa r from 5:00pm. Doors 7:30pm - 10:30pm\n\nTickets sold out original link : www.ticketsource.co.uk\n\nOKI - Born on the Japanese island of Hokkaido in 1957\, OKI is a contemporary of the likes of Haroumi Hosono and Midori Ta kada\, an explorative folk musician who blends indigenous Ainu folk music with international influences and who is without question the most influen tial living Ainu musician.\n\nOne of Japan’s most respected heritage art ists he is the world’s leading player of the tonkori\, a fivestringed Ai nu harp\, which is the pulse of his music and the force that unifies the d isparate sounds his music encompasses whether that’s reggae\, dub\, thro at singing\, African grooves or music from Central Asia.\n\nOn stage OKI i s joined by his wife Rumiko Kano (vocals\, tonkori)\, son Manaw Kano (drum s\, tonkori) + long-time collaborator Takashi Nakajo (bass) for a journey into Ainu music as ancient vocal chants move into intense mouth-harp acape llas and meditative solo tonkori pieces morph into psychedelic dub-heavy w orkouts.\n\nTheir 2022 tour saw them perform at LeGuessWho?\, Bongo Joe (G eneva) and a UK tour with three sold out shows at London’s Café Oto\, G lasgow’s Glad Café and Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum\, as well as live sessions for Gilles Peterson’s WWFM and two at Radio 3 for Late Junction and Music Planet\n\n---------------------------------\n\n“The tonkori i s (OKI’s) anchor and he comes at it with both a grounding in its history but also a rootless neophyte innocence”.\n\n- The Wire\n\n“With OKI\, we see some of the last players of the indigenous Japanese Ainu five-stri nged harp the tonkori\, where the family act together to celebrate.\n\nthe ir common cultural identity”\n\n- Clash Magazine ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2023/05/Oki2023.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR