On ETC Works 2, Monpachi covers a song by The BOOM, but it's not the one you would expect. That song, of course, is the song that was inspired by Okinawa, Shima Uta:
It's a beautiful song, right? It's also the reason why people think The BOOM is from Okinawa, though their hometown is actually in Yamanashi Prefecture. So, it's interesting to me that Monpachi would cover a song by a non-Okinawan band that has done Okinawanesque music, but choose a song completely unrelated to the styles they have been getting into (which is infusing traditional Okinawan music into their punk).
What is even more interesting is that the original song sounds like this:
Is that ska/reggae I hear in there? Isn't that what almost the entirety of ETC Works is? But why, then, does it sound like vaguely Okinawa country when Monpachi covers it?
(Unfortunately, I do have a youtube video of the song. May have to rectify that myself in the near future.)
It's just too fascinating for words!
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