OKI JP

Name: OKI JP
Start: 2026-09-08
End: 2026-09-08
Location: Alice

took place · 8 Sep 2026

Alice, Copenhagen

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OKI JP brings Japanese folk music on the tonkori harp together with psychedelic sounds and meditative dub excursions.

About the venue: Alice

ALICE is a regional music venue in Nørrebro, formed in 2018 from the merger of the former venues Global and Jazzhouse. Named after American jazz pianist and composer Alice Coltrane, it focuses on music that rarely finds space on Danish stages - from global roots, folk and jazz/improv to sound art, new composed music, metal and electronic experiments. The venue also stages concerts at external locations such as Marmorkirken and Glyptoteket.

Nørre Allé 7, 2200 København N Get directions

About: OKI JP

Oki Kano is the man behind the revival of the tonkori - a five-stringed Ainu instrument that stood on the edge of extinction before he picked it up in the 1990s and began composing new music for it for the first time in generations. With his Oki Dub Ainu Band, he fuses indigenous melodies from Hokkaido with dub bass, reggae and African percussion into a sound unlike anything else.

What's new

2026-06
OKI Dub Ainu Band performed their full band USA debut with a concert at Japan Society in New York on June 4, 2026.
2026-06
OKI performed at ALICE in Copenhagen with his trio in September 2026, according to the venue's website.
2025
OKI made his directorial debut with the documentary 'Everyday Ainu', produced by the National Museum of Ainu in Shiraoi, Hokkaido.

Tour

New YorkChathamKøbenhavn

Tracks

Kamuy Kor NupurpeDebut album from 1996 - the starting shot of OKI's career

Tonkori in the MoonlightCompilation album (2022), ranked in top-10 folk albums by The Guardian

Dub AinuAlbum from 2004, the foundation for OKI Dub Ainu Band's international breakthrough

TonkoriAlbum from 2005, reconstruction of traditional Ainu melodies from ethnomusicologist's recordings

Live at Café OtoLive album (2023), recorded during London Jazz Festival 2022

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