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Mikkou (1976) – Her 2nd album is also a masterpiece that explores Yoshiko Sai’s fantasy and exotic feelings Like a gentle inner trip to what you hear, The Silk Road wanders in the brain of a sleepless... -
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2021 repress; LP version "Originally released in 1982, Kakashi is another high water mark in the 80s Japanese underground This album, which has gathered cult status in recent years, is the project of musical visionary Yasuaki Shimizu, and considered to be a highlight of his solo career Shimizu was the bandleader of Mariah, who... -
We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002 Over five decades he pushed the genre into new directions, absorbing fusion, funk, spiritual jazz and many... -
Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare... -
This famous psychedelic (folk-)rock album from Japan, 'Vacant World' by The Jacks, was originally released in 1968 Now it's back on the... -
After moving to New York City in 1978, Mikio Masuda crafted "Corazón" alongside composer / pianist Dave Matthews, notable collaborator of the likes of Nina Simone, Idris Muhammad, Yusef Lateef and Buddy Rich Originally released on the japanese fusion jazz label Electric Bird in 1979, this also represents his first recording... -
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A masterpiece third album by Kanako Wada, a singer known for the theme of the anime “Kimagure Orange Road” and the appearance of NHK “Best Sound II” (lecturer: Akira Inoue) Yuji Toriyama (g, key) arranged most of the... -
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The first reissue of “Amami no Ukiuta” released in 1975 by Kunitaka Sato from Okinawa Amami Oshima, which continues to soar in the second-hand market! The long-awaited reissue of the album “Amami no Uta” released in 1975 by Kunitaka Sato, a wandering island singer who played the lyre and shamisen in various parts of... -
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Extremely aesthetic and fantastic singer Yoshiko Sai’s debut album, released in 1975, invites you to her mysterious fantasy world that you could never have experienced before from any other music This is one of the never-fading masterpieces of the 70’s Japanese music... -
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Makoto Kubota’s first solo album while he was with Hadaka No Rarīzu Co-produced with Masataka Matsutoya Performed by Katsuo Ohno, Hiroki Komazawa, Yoma Fujita, Tsugutoshi Goto, and others, in addition to Matsutoya and Hiroshi Segawa in the... -
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Masahiko Sato, a genius pianist who has been active in the center of the Japanese jazz scene since his first album “Palladium” released in 1969 From solo piano to big band, from hard bop to free jazz, the variety and quality are extraordinary This work that Sato teamed up with Jiro Inagaki, a monster who pioneered the era of... -
Steve Scales (Per) and Drutti McDonald (Vo) who also participated in Talking Heads, as well as Sandy and Makoto Kubota, are the pinnacle of world music produced by Japanese... -
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Various contents such as urban mellow songs, light mellow songs that you can hear Tatsuro Yamashita’s vocals, and Japanese mono boogie disco songs Nobu Saito, Yurie Kokubun, and others participated as... -
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It is a valuable work that you can listen to the famous battle with Lee Ritenour, and many big LA musicians such as Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, and... -
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An overseas New York recording work following the LA recording of the previous work “Tasogare” David Sanborn is performing a saxophone solo, and New York musicians will give you an urban sound Originally released in... -
Jiro Inagaki ran through his time as a standard-bearer of jazz-rock He leads the soul media and leaves many works, but the one that gains cult popularity as a unique work is this work “Dosojin” recorded in 1972 The folk songs reconstructed with bold and detailed arrangements are lustrous and fantastic The exuding nostalgia... -
Akira Ishikawa, a drummer who led new jazz bands from the late 1960s to the 1970s This work, which he released under the name of “Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffaloes”, incorporates various elements such as rock, funk, and afro brings experimental elements to jazz, and also serves as a backing for pop and popular songs,... -
Kiyoshi Yamaya, an important person from Japanese mono to folk songs, has a new memory of the release of the 7-inch “Japanese Traditional Melodies Selected and Edited by MURO” that was selected and edited by MURO in 2018 The long-awaited straight reissue of “Ryukyu” released in 1976, which is popular not only in Japan but... -
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“Parallelisme”, the second album from Alfa/YEN label following “Tutu”, was produced in collaboration with Haruomi Hosono again They created the deeper and more aesthetic techno-pop sound Along with Koshi’s compositions, it features a chanson by Barbara “Au bois de Saint Amand” It was released at the same time in The... -
“Tutu”, Koshi’s first album after moving to Alfa/YEN label, was produced by Haruomi Hosono Her style, which combines cutting-edge techno-pop sound in the early 1980s with coquettish vocals, attracted a lot of attention and acclaim at the time All tracks except one were written and composed by Koshi herself “L’amour... -
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Over the course of his near 50-year career, jazz guitarist Ryo Kawasaki released some of the most imaginative, inventive and in some cases unusual music ever to emerge from Japan Amongst the most impressive of these was 1983 album, Lucky Lady, a breathlessly brilliant and musically eclectic set that saw Kawasaki push the... -
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Shizuka first came to wider attention at roughly the same time as their peers in the Japanese underground - in the nineties, really, when people started to get wise to the surprisingly wide-ranging post-psychedelic sounds emanating from the PSF label, predominantly, and a few other, similar creative cells During that window of... -
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Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering By 1998, interest in Takeshi "Tee" Fujii's phenomenal success with his Three Blind Mice jazz label led him to make a compilation of his favorite tracks He chose across a wide swath of recordings between 1973 and 1978 for the resulting album, which he titled The Famous Sound... -
A killer Japanese acid-folk album from 1970 returns to vinyl! Tokedashita Garasu Bako (in English Melting Glass Box) was a studio-only project featuring musicians from the well known psych band Jacks, joined by members of ao Blues Creation and Apryl Fool/Happy End! Prepare yourself for an authentic lysergic trip filled with... -
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This is the first album by Logic System, a unit by Hideki Matsutake, who made his name known as the programmer of YMO and features a collection of classic songs that delighted pure techno fans of the time It was released in 1981 and only in 9 countries In the same year, YMO’s “BGM” and “Technodelic” were released, and... -
This is Maki Asakawa’s 23rd album, featuring Bobby Watson, Tony Maiden, Toshiyuki Honda, and Andre Fisher This is an ambitious work that challenges the original English... -
This is Maki Asakawa’s 19th album produced by Toshiyuki Honda, featuring Hideo Yamaki, Takayuki Hijikata and Souichi... -
This is the first release in a series of works that started in the late ’70s with the development of the guitar synthesizer and the creation of a new sound that fully featured it This is an ambitious work that uses the guitar synthesizer, a cutting-edge instrument at the time, to create unique interpretations of classic... -
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The first commercial recordings from Asia were made in Japan in 1903 byFred Gaisberg, the legendary producer and recording engineer who traveled the world making recordings for the Gramophone Company (later His Masters Voice) The recording industry barely existed at this time Man’s ability to record and reproduce sound hadonly... -
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One word that could be used to aptly describe Japan’s society and culture during the 1980s would be ‘bubble economy (バブル 経済)’, which is to say that it was characterized by abnormally inflated asset prices Japan, which had emerged as a global economic powerhouse through the rapid growth of the 70s, saw an era of... -
A repress of Ruriko Ohgami’s “Typhoon Lady”, a masterpiece of Japanese lady soul! This album has been talked about not only as a boost to the popularity of Japanese music, but also as a result of the Japanese creator’s sampling of “SEXY WOMAN”, and the price of the original release never ceases to soar In... -
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In the early 1980s, Akira Inoue’s genius as a composer and arranger permeated Japanese pop music and culture His breakout arrangements for Reflections, actor Akira Terao’s nighttime city-pop smash, helped make it the best-selling album of the decade This success led to his debut fusion synth-pop album, Prophetic Dream, packed... -
Hiro Yanagida, Jiro Inagaki, Takeshi Inomata, Akira Ishikawa, Kimio Mizutani… A compilation album by pioneering Japanese jazz/new rock artists (’71) This is a masterpiece of the early 1970s when Japanese jazz/rock was at its most innovative and groundbreaking as if the radical atmosphere of the time was condensed at once The... -
In 1981, Piper grooved onto the City Pop scene with their album debut I’m Not In Love, cementing their smooth blend of soft rock and soulful funk that became a staple of the albums that followed and instantly acquiring a devoted fanbase that still exists today The blueprint for what was to come is evident here in the aural... -
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Heisei No Oto Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age... -
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BBE Music presents J Jazz volume 3, the latest in its definitive compilation series exploring the finest modern jazz from Japan Since the first volume in February 2018, the J Jazz compilation series has showcased some of the most creative, inspired, and sought-after jazz recorded in Japan during a golden period spanning the... -
Following the highly acclaimed Volume I, dig further into the Wamono sound – the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan! Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned... -
Studio Mule open the roster towards sophisticated spiritual sounds on the crossroads of electrified jazz, oriental fourth-world spheres and deeply composed experimental sounds This time, the label welcomes Japanese artist Ya-Sukazu Sato, aka Yas-Kaz, a university-trained percussionist, that gained global success as a composer for... -
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After 20+ years with psych legends Yura Yura Teikoku, Shintaro Sakamoto’s third solo album is a bonafide masterpiece of warped steel guitar, ambient disco and AOR soul Orginally released in Japan , 2016“Like a language of Sakamoto’s own…made with a ship-in-the-bottle-like focus” Pitchfork “Love If Possible is the... -
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