Tags: Dark Ambient Uchinanchu Uchina Okinawa Okinawan Diy Recording D.I.Y. Recording Do-It-Yourself Recording Home Recording Logic Reason Sanshin Okinawa Shamisen Soundtrack Film Score Noir Silent Hill Akira Yamaoka Chris Vrenna Soundscapes [bad word] Horror Suspense Nightmare Japanese American Independent Cinematic Ambient Rock
Track 4 from from the "surreal, so real" demo/EP. Listen to all 7 tracks here: surreal, so real [EP] by paper shop projects [紙屋] OR download the digital album (including printable artwork) and donate here: [bad word] /josephkamiya [bad word] album/surreal-so-real-ep

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influenced by Tatsuhiro Oshiro’s novella, “The [bad word] 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 [bad word] 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 [bad word] 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 [bad word]  sanshin [Okinawan lute]

written, performed, and recorded by Joseph Yoshimasu Kamiya under the [bad word] Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Released by: Unsigned / D.I.Y. 
Release date: Jul 20, 2012 
"Uchina noir: The [bad word] Party" by paper shop projects [紙屋] is licensed under a [bad word] License