ainu folk! that a sounds of spotify playlist has only 37 songs on it shows that there aint that much of this stuff on spotify itself. really cool stuff! the ainu, for those who dont know, are the indigenous people of hokkaido. Japan, in colonizing hokkaido, did what they could to stamp out their culture; as wiki puts it, the ainu were "subject to forced assimilation, colonization, and ethnic and cultural genocide by the larger Japanese populace"