HOME ISLAND

[Machine Translation] This is the first major release by Acoustic M, a bluesy and soulful unit consisting of Masumi Chika on vocals and Masaru Chika on acoustic guitar. The song "My Little Home Island" is a song with a light reggae touch that expresses their feelings for their hometown Okinawa, "Tenkakeru Gin no Tori" was the first song Masumi Chika wrote with Ryukyuan scales in mind, and "Hoshi no Sasayaki Shine" was inspired by a beautiful starry sky on a remote island in Okinawa, which immediately inspired the melody of the song. Mother Nature" was composed by blending Okinawan dialect and Western words they were familiar with in a single song, and is a song that can be sung only by those who have lived a long time and is aptly described as a "mature love song. A cover of the Okinawan folk song "Teinsagunu Hana" is also included.

ヴォーカルの知名ますみ、アコースティックギターの知名勝という夫婦によるブルージー&ソウルフルなユニット「Acoustic M」の初のメジャー作品。軽やかなレゲエ・タッチで故郷沖縄への想いを聴かせる「My Little Home Island」、知名ますみが初めて琉球音階を意識して作った「天かける銀の鳥」、沖縄のさらに離島の美しい星空に出会った時の感激ですぐにメロディーが浮かんだという「星のささやき輝き」、沖縄の方言と、片言だけど彼らが慣れ親しんだ洋楽の言葉とを1つの歌の中に溶け込ませて作ったという「Mother Nature」など、人生の年輪を重ねた者のみが唱える、そして"大人のラブソング"という形容がピッタリな、"オトナの味わい"が溢れる1枚。沖縄民謡「てぃんさぐぬ花」のカヴァーも収録。