“I first met Shoukichi Kina in 1979. He had a habit of throwing himself down onto the floor and kicking his feet when he liked a playback. When Kina’s wife, Tomoko, put down the vocal on “Flowers For You Heart,” he lay down and stayed down, making the engineer play it back over and over until he had wrung himself out—a real playback party, Okinawan style." - Ry Cooder, 1993 ... more