Far East
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Compiled by Tsunaki Kadowaki artwork by Yoshirotten mastering by Kuniyuki Takahashi Tsunaki Kadowaki, a staff member at Kyoto’s record store Meditations, the supervisor of "New Age Music Disc Guide", and the founder of Sad Disco, curates the fourth installment of "Midnight in Tokyo" themed around Ambient Kayo. The Midnight in...
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Audiopile Review: Yumiko Morioka’s 1987 sole release Resonance, a kankyō ongaku classic, is mercifully repressed by Métron Records, who initially reissued it back in 2020, those copies now hitting triple digits price points online. Considered a notable part of the Japanese Environmental Music movement of the 1980s, Resonance actually has...
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SHITSURAI unfolds like ambient origami, embodying the essence of Japan’s age-old traditions and the ephemeral beauty of its changing seasons. Conceived as a commissioned work for Japanese integrated art brand WARA, Hiroshima-based composer Meitei (Daisuke Fujita) sculpts a soundwoven narrative inspired by the 24 sekki — nature’s poetic calendar of...
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Taba, the new album from Japanese musician, songwriter and traveller Satomimagae, unfolds as a series of vignettes that document both the personal and the universal, seen and unseen. Observing and absorbing the fleeting scenes and sounds of life flowing outside of her home studio, Satomi sings beyond herself, in an...
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Gloriously mature and engrossing movements for cello, flute and tape self-released from the Japanese duo on their Ozato label. It’s hard to write anything about Torso’s music without giving the impression that this is polite, nicely buttoned-up contemporary classical dishwater. It isn’t. The same constituents are there - bowed cello,...
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Mesh-Key is thrilled to announce a deluxe, expanded reissue of Moon Beams by Tokyo visionaries, Tsuki No Wa. Originally released on CD by Japan's Soundscape label in 2003, Moon Beams is a bonafide opus -- a masterful mix of jazz, latin, folk and electroacoustic, topped with bandleader Fuminosuke's soaring, spectral...
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Love Raid is first in a series of cassette-only mixtapes with the cult WFMU show and blog Bodega Pop collecting assorted digs from across New York's bodegas and cell-phone stores. This first edition is focused on leftfield, novelty, and protest 45s from across the Arabic world recorded between 1960 &...
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Anvar Kalandarov is a music archaeologist, musician and producer from Tashkent, Uzbekistan with a focus on unearthing rare and hard to find gems from across Central Asia. Last year he compiled Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz, released in collaboration with Ostinato Records....
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Audiopile Review: It’s possible to be a fan of an artist while simply missing a significant portion of their artistry. Plenty of MFs worship the godlike Peter Hammill as a prog deity for his work with Van der Graaf Generator, without even knowing that his late 70s solo...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Audiopile Review: The arrival of affordable home recording technology in the 1980s is mostly celebrated for birthing all manner of scratchy post-punk and tinny synth pop. Don’t get us wrong, we love that stuff. But it also allowed folks from the pre-punk progressive underground to experience a previously impossible artistic...
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Xiaolin’s previous outings on Bless You have seen her reinterpret City Pop anthem ‘Plastic Love’ by Mariya Takeuchi and the Hong Kong Pop starlet of the 1980 Prudence Liew’s ‘Afterwards’ . Now, we hear her reimagine ‘Half a Dream’ which first saw the light of day on the 1987 LP...
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Hiroshi Yoshimura was commissioned in 1984 by Japanese multi-national personal care company Shiseido to create something that might be entirely out of his own wheelhouse: music that could complement a fragrance. Mixing bird song and sea sound with environmental field recordings, plus the usual electronics paraphernalia, he just released something...
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Audiopile Review: A weird theory: when a serious artist gets goofy, it stinks, but when a goofy artist gets serious, it rules. Does anyone think ‘The Laughing Gnome’ is David Bowie’s best song? Or how about Bowie’s hero, the godlike Peter Hammill? As we’re sure you’ve noticed, his novelty single...
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Another fine out-of-print album from 1984 from the Japanese bassist/keyboardist. This one is mellow and quite easy to get into. Composed by Yoshio Suzuki. Suzuki plays all the instruments on tracks 3-10. Musicians: Yoshio Suzuki (all tracks): Acoustic and Electric Pianos, Synthesizers, Upright and Electric Bass, (also Linn Drum machine...
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“Subtle, playful. Softly spoken yet speaks volumes. This is powerful stuff! The absence of music like this is what made me start producing…” —Jackson Bailey/Tapes “Fairy-tale of dub new-age heaven. Rainbow scenery is spread out in my brain. It's hard for me to get out this world” —H.Takahashi 7FO: pronounced...
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After 10 years from the release of the succesful "Obscure Cuts: Italian Arabic Disco", the mighty Beppe Loda is back with a new EP containing top notch cuts of finely chosen Middle-Eastern-influenced Italian obscure gems from the golden era of disco music. Step on the magical carpet and fly high...
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Big Crown Records is proud to present Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek’s latest album Yarın Yoksa. The show stopping intensity of Derya backed by the psychedelic soul of Grup Şimşek with production by Leon Michels has yielded a stand out record that challenges genre with a broad appeal and a...
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When it first slipped out back in 2015, Manabu Nagayama’s ‘Light & Shadow’ passed most people by. Yet it’s a genuinely overlooked gem a musically expansive and uplifting Japanese deep house workout that first featured on a promo-only compilation back in 2015. A softly spun slab of slow-building brilliance full...
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The collection titled "exQuisxx" is a creation of POiSON GiRL FRiEND's own music, and is comprised of pieces from three different works: "Shyness," "Mr. Polyglot Remix," and "Love Me," all released by Nippon Columbia between 1993 and 1994. The title "exQuisxx" is a coined term that merges the French word...
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With her unique fusion of ambient techno, trip-hop, and French pop, along with a coquettish whispering voice, POiSON GiRL FRiEND is now gaining worldwide attention. She successfully completed a North American tour with ten shows and two performances in China last year, and she has already announced upcoming tours in...
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With her unique fusion of ambient techno, trip-hop, and French pop, along with a coquettish whispering voice, POiSON GiRL FRiEND is now gaining worldwide attention. She successfully completed a North American tour with ten shows and two performances in China last year, and she has already announced upcoming tours in...
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Audiopile Review: Black Editions has done an incredible job of making classics from Japan’s P.S.F. label available in obscenely luxurious vinyl editions. We’re particularly grateful for those ragged and radiant White Heaven albums. Of all the P.S.F. bands, White Heaven concocted the most palatable brew of heavy rock, lo-fi murk,...
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Following the success of the Tokyo Glow and Funk Tide sets, Wewantsounds once again teams up with Tokyo-based DJ Notoya for a breezy selection of funk and boogie recorded in Japan for King Records in the '70s and '80s. Most tracks here are making their debut on vinyl outside of...
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Audiopile Review: Well known in Japan, Ichiko Aoba’s music took over a decade to break beyond her home country. Ba Da Bing! was the first to release one of her albums domestically, 2021’s Windswept Adan, an album that became a mainstay here in the shop, driven entirely by word of...
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"This is the first LP release of the soundtracks to two short films, 'La Folia' and 'Pantai to Tamago Hime,' which are only shown at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. Joe Hisaishi reconstructed Vivaldi’s 'La Folia' with a modern approach. The music from the play is recorded so that it...
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Soundtrack recorded for the film based on the image album. Jacket image is a watercolor painting for the cover of the original comics of Nausicaa taking a gun to relieve a dying baby Ohmu from suffering which she tried to save, though it was beyond help....
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Audiopile Review: You may remember Naoki Zushi from our recent-ish write-up of his excellent album ‘IV’. He’s perhaps best known as a member of Japanoise legends Hijokaidan, but has surprising links to the lofi indie pop scene, specifically Nagisa Ni Te. As a solo artist, he produces truly epic psyche...
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Double LP version. Green color vinyl version. A classic compilation that emanated out of Osaka, Noise Forest brings together a powerhouse of early '90s Japanese noise stalwarts: Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Solmania, Dislocation, Monde Bruits, Masonna, Violent Onsen Geisha, and Incapacitants. The ultimate Japanoise collection, originally released in 1992 on the cult...
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***An almost impossible to imagine archive of underground DIY sounds from Japan dating 1979-1981. Inspired by the UK compilation album of the same name released in 1980 by Morgan Fisher, a one time member of Mott The Hoople, which features “miniature” works by an incredibly diverse group of 50...
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For the first time on vinyl, all 24 tracks from Shinichiro Yokota's 2016 and 2019 albums, previously only available on CD in Japan via Soichi Terada's Far East Recording. Homegrown 90s soulful melodic club music nostalgia from one of the true pioneers of Japanese house. Full unadulterated pleasure forever -...
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While Les Rallizes Dénudés’ YaneUra Oct. ‘80 (DRFT13) was being prepared for release, a mysterious tape was unearthed. Discovered amid the piles of recordings left behind by frontman Takashi Mizutani, the undated cassette contained no recording info, and was referred to as “Unknown” during the archival process. There was...
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Begging the Moon is a collection focused upon an early-to-mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon (meaning "song which is both Thai and universal"). With recordings taken from the end of WWII until the start of the 1960s, many of these tracks may also...
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A special Halloween drop in the form of part one of a two-part Japanese post-punk, goth & new wave mixtape, the first in a tranche of globally-focused mixes reissued in partnership with Philadelphia’s punk archivists World Gone Mad....
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special Halloween drop in the form of part two of a two-part Japanese post-punk, goth & new wave mixtape, the first in a tranche of globally-focused mixes in partnership with Philadelphia’s punk archivists World Gone Mad....
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2025 repress; double LP version. Midnight In Tokyo is a compilation series that aims to be the perfect companion to nights in Tokyo, collecting tracks by Japanese artists that sound best at night. Vol. 2 focused more on '80s jazz fusion, but the latest installment, Vol. 3, picks up where...
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Audiopile Review: No one causes quite a stir around the shop quite like Shinichi Atobe when a new release is announced. And we’re blessed with two of them this week! Thought we were gonna get blanked on the Ongaku 1 EP that dropped in the first half of 2024, disappearing...
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Limited Edition of 299 copies. Black vinyl. Urashima present the eagerly awaited reissue of Merzbow's seminal album Mercurated on double vinyl, originally released on CD in 1996 by Alchemy Records. This milestone in the noise genre captures the essence of Masami Akita's innovative approach to sound, an exploration of the...
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Double LP version. Midnight In Tokyo Vol. 2, the second installment to the compilation series that rounds up hidden gems by Japanese artists that's perfect for listening at night in Tokyo, is here. This time the collection brings together some tasty electric jazz fusion from the '80s, compiled by Dubby,...
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The first analog re-release of the album "I/O," which was originally produced by Akio Niitsu in a DIY studio converted from his garage at home. Niitsu composed and manipulated everything by himself over a period of three years, recording multiple guitars. This is a masterpiece of guitar based experimental/ambient album...
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The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere is a spiritual meditation - best listened to in one sitting - by two master musicians and culture bearers of centuries-old musical traditions sharing modes based on Persian and Malian repertoires on kamancheh (spike fiddle) and kora (harp/lute). Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté...
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Sharps and Flats, led by Nobuo Hara, has been a driving force in Japan's big band jazz scene with its diverse activities and distinctive musicality. Among the many works produced throughout their long career, 'Little Giant' stands out as one of their most iconic albums. Originally released in 1970...
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Matsuyama in Ehime is the birthplace of haiku, and to this day, haiku submission boxes are placed around town. Young people gather in a haiku society-like manner. In other words, they observe and contemplate well, but their approach is generally instant, casual, and somewhat careless. There is a local disposition...
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Some bands you just have to hear. Japan's KOENJIHYAKKEI (aka Koenji Hyakkei) are just such a band. Tatsuya Yoshida’s (of the renowned bass and drum duo RUINS), progressive rock powerhouse is Area and ELP at their most excessive; Deus Ex Machina with tempo changes multiplied by 100; and Magma at...
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WRWTFWW Records presents its third collaboration with Japanese electronic/ambient/synth-pop crew Interior, this time with the release of band member Daisuke Hinata's forgotten solo treasure from 1989: Tarzanland. The feel-good/smooth ride LP is available as a limited-edition turquoise and light pink vinyl housed in a heavyweight 350gsm sleeve with obi strip....
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Audiopile Review: You may know Masahiro Sugaya from his contribution to the much-loved compilation ‘Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990’. Just over a minute of tinkling, plinking ambiance, ‘Umi No Sunatsubu’ somehow manages to be one of the highlights of a very stacked comp. The truth...
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At the age of 14, Ayako Hosokawa was already performing in the American military clubs in Japan, picking up the English language by singing international pop songs of that time. Now, she represents feeling and soul within her songs, no matter whether she sings in English or Japanese....
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Japanese composer Hiroko Matsuzaki began her classic music career as a flutist, and from 1985 to 1987 she worked as a studio musician as a flute/synthesiser player based in London, gaining an excellent reputation abroad without passing through the Japanese music scene. Simon Jeffs of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra heard...
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