Irish music legend Donal Lunny (now living in Okinawa), extraordinary sax player Kazutoki Umezu and kalimba player Hiromi Kondo of Amana got together for the Peace Music Festa! on Henoko Beach in Okinawa in February 2007. They enjoyed it so much they decided to make a 4 track charity maxi single, with each contributing one tune each, plus one traditional song. There's a serious side to this record, as the US and Japanese governments by continuing with the Camp Schwab construction plan look set to destroy the remaining habitat of the rare marine mammal, the dugong, a relative of the manatee that feeds on the coral reefs and seagrass beds of Henoko Bay. Fewer than 50 dugongs survive in the area and it is feared the mammal will become extinct. Kazutoki Umezu - clarinet, soprano sax. Hiromi Kondo - kalimba, mbira, Donal Lunny- bouzouki, keyboards, bodhran. 1. Henoko Dugongs 2. Cunla 3. Song for Chico Mendes 4. Full Moon Sea - Chimudinka.
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