Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Senri Miyazato

Songs and Prayers from the Izaiho Ritual, Kudaka Island

(Basic Function, BsF006) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Asanmai (4:05)
  2. Nirahana Worship (2:25)
  3. Tinyuta Praying at Uputishiji (4:47)
  4. Yukunegamiashibi (4:29)
  5. Hashirarariashibi (14:22)
  6. Arikuya (11:18)
  7. Dialogue between Shizu Nishime and Yasuo Higa (1:42)
  8. Nariki (3:57)
  9. Gukimai (30:40)
  10. Speech of the District Mayor (1:23)

Recorded by Senri Miyazato at Kudaka Island, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, 1978
Edited and mastered by Makoto Oshiro
Photos by Yasuo Higa
Design by Hirozumi Takeda
Includes a 28-page booklet with liner notes by Senri Miyazato in Japanese and English (English translation by Linda Havenstein)

Released in October 2016