Rankin' Taxi Explained

Rankin' Taxi (born 9 February 1953) is a Japanese reggae artist, from Yokohama. In 2011, he re-recorded his 1989^[1] anti-nuclear song 誰にも見えない、匂いもない^[2] (You can't see it, you can't smell it) with Dub Ainu Band, which despite receiving little airplay in the mainstream Japanese media, attracted the attention of the New York Times in June 2011 in an article by Dan Grunebaum titled Japan's New Wave of protest songs,^[3] after it became popular following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

See also

• RC Succession

References

• Web site: Rankin' Taxi . 2007-03-16 . Japanese . https://web.archive.org/web/20070311013404/http://www.bacchanal45.com/profile/rankin.html . 2007-03-11.

Notes and References

1. Web site: ランキン・タクシー / 火事だぁ [再発]]. CDJournal. ONGAKU SHUPPANSHA Co., Ltd.. 9 August 2014. 1.
2. Web site: ランキン&ダブアイヌバンド「誰にも見えない、匂いもない 2011」. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/Z_Tg3sW9ElU . 2021-12-15 . live. YouTube. 9 August 2014. 2.
3. News: Grunebaum. Dan. Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs. 9 August 2014. The New York Times. 30 June 2011. 2.