Stringed Unchained (New Jacket 2025)
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Ryukyu-India (feat. Yuichi Onoue) [New Jacket 2025]
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The Chinese Ship is Arriving (New Jacket 2025)
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Hutch and Run (New Jacket 2025)
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Sparrows in the Yanbaru Forest (New Jacket 2025)
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Fertile Sea (New Jacket 2025)
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Il Mare : Fertile Sea (With Trio Dali)
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Leave Anger in the Silence (New Jacket 2025)
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Cuckoo in the White Birch Forest (New Jacket 2025)
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Inkarushipe Shooting Stars (feat. U-zhaan) [New Jacket 2025]
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Seven Nights on the Planet (New Jacket 2025)
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Stringed Unchained (New Edition)
Wataru Kousaka explores the unique voices of traditional string instruments like the Okinawan sanshin, Indian sarod, Vietnamese dan bau, and the rare k'ni a mouth-resonated fiddle with an analog wah-like sound.
Blending ambient, folk, and improvised textures, this album traces his musical journey across Hokkaido, Okinawa, and Europe, featuring collaborations with Paul Mahoux, Triodali, U-zhaan, and Yuichi Onoue.
Now reissued with newly designed cover art by the artist himself.
Artist Profile
Wataru Kousaka
Wataru Kousaka is a musician raised in Okinawa, Japan. He creates impressionistic and ambient instrumental music using traditional instruments from various parts of Asia, including the sanshin, sarod and dan bau. His compositions draw soundscapes that feel like paintings made of wind and light. His music is deeply influenced by his early experience with choral singing, where each voice played a different role and supported the others. Instruments with different tonalities and characters are not blended into uniformity, but gently brought closer through tuning adjustments, creating harmony through mutual respect rather than sameness. Each piece offers a quiet yet vivid expression of memory, atmosphere and the breath of his island home.
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