HARIKUYAMAKU
Artist Profile
HARIKUYAMAKUA music producer, dub engineer, and DJ born in Nishihara, Urasoe City, Okinawa, in 1989. He began his musical journey as a bassist at the age of 14. After several journeys abroad and a pilgrimage along the Shikoku Pilgrimage route, he came to experience Okinawa with fresh eyes and ears.
In 2012, he released Shima DUB, an album featuring dub arrangements of traditional Okinawan folk songs. He has since been active in bands including Churashima Navigator, Isatooment, angama, and Gintendan.
In 2023, he composed the music for Fence, a television drama series produced by WOWOW. On November 3 of the same year, he released Mystic Islands Dub, an album featuring dub mixes of carefully selected traditional Okinawan folk recordings from Okinawa Ongaku Sōran (1965), rearranged and performed by Gintendan. In 2024, he released the 12-inch EP Denshi Kachāshī.