Kina

Historia Kina W Popielawach is a bucolic family tale, full of irony and heavily entwined with the invention of the moving picture. The narrator is a ten-year old boy who, during the sixties, is sent from the town to visit his grandparent's village, Popielawy. Roughly one hundred years before – almost a quarter of a century before Edison and the Lumiere Brothers – the village blacksmith invented a cinematographic apparatus by which he was able to project images drawn onto the bladders of fish and pigs, making them "come to life." A hundred or so years later, …

Asia Classics 2: Peppermint Tea House is a fantastic Luaka Bop compilation released in 1994 by Okinawan singer, songwriter, and musician Shoukichi Kina. He brought in elements of pop, rock, and folk into his indigenous sounds to create something that was unique in itself. He was in a group called Champloose. It's fun music for those who wish to be captured by the beauty of Okinawa. Warner Bros. Records helped to distribute this.