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The aftermath of World War II gave rise to a global phenomenon that saw new generations of young people rise up determined to forge new paths from their elders culturally politically and musically Japan was no exception and the recent past made the local youth angrier hungrier and even more...
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With unprecedented prosperity and growing worldwide fame in broadcast game and synthesizers the 1980s Japan entered a golden decade New genre splashes from technopop Pacifica and AOR City pop merged local sensibilities with jazz funk and Latin influences Spiced in sugary US West coast sparkle and boasting naive lyrics with...
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Reissue of Hideo Shiraki Quintet s Play Horace Silver album Led by Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader Hideo Shiraki known for his hard bop and jazz albums in the 1950s and...
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In the finest tradition of BBE Music s J Jazz Masterclass Series we have a real obscurity of quality to savour Taken from the rare 1978 private press album Introducing by the Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet featuring Hiroshi Fujii this private press gig recording was originally released in less than 100...
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Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese focusing this time on the King Records catalog Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki Toshiaki Yokota...
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The excellent Death Is Not The End label has done it again with this stunning collection of early Japanese ryūkōka music documenting the beginnings of a sound that was popular in Japan until the 1960s Before the US occupation of Japan and the dominating influence of Western pop there was...
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NTS DJ label boss and fabled collector Howard Williams lands on DDS with an etheric communique under his Japan Blues moniker inspired by early C 20th Min yō folk and avant dub richly spirited with field recordings and ghostly ephemera Six years since his debut Japan Blues album Sells His...
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The legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto has been quiet since his 2017 album async spending most of his time composing film scores though earlier this year he dropped a bombshell he s suffering from stage 4 cancer He s battled throat cancer since 2014 and rectal cancer since 2021 but few were...
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Reissue originally released in 1993 White Heaven s second album Strange Bedfellow is one of the great unsung albums of the 90s Japanese underground Released two years after their striking debut Out the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic and finely honed sound You Ishihara s songwriting...
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Finally available again after an all too brief release by BoxStar Records in 2012 the Three Blind Mice 45 RPM Box is the highly desirable collection of three Tee Fujii s most popular LPs Misty Midnight Sugar and Blow Up in one awesome package You know the story one pressing...
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On their fourth album BGM YMO continued where they left off with X∞ Multiplies by venturing further into synthesizers drum computers and experimentation with rhythm sequences and speeds This album is more focused on atmosphere and mood some even say this album is a turning point for YMO and the...
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Wewantsounds announce a special edition of the legendary 1979 Masahiko Togashi album Song of Soil recorded in Paris with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden and released on Japanese label Paddle Wheel Supervised by Parisian producer Martin Meissonnier then Don Cherry s right hand man Song of Soil reaches heights of...
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Reissue 1972 debut album by cultish Japanese combo This unbelievable psychedelic progressive rock band came together the same year after Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda shelved their project Strawberry Path they had a sole album release in 1971 and eventually a 7 Their sound is pure adrenaline a stormy hard...
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Finally this ghost gem left by Jiro Inagaki s Soul Media has been repressed on vinyl for the first time thanks to Cinedelic Records Woodstock Generation is a masterpiece of Japanese jazz rock funk soul that for some it even considered better then the acclaimed Head Rock in terms of...
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Since 2018 BBE Music has been leading the field in reissuing rare modern jazz from Japan s golden period spanning the late 60s to the early 80s The J Jazz Masterclass Series continues to present the finest in Japanese jazz with Planets by Masaru Imada Trio + 1 Originally released...
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First released in 1976 Shakuhachi Mountain Poetry is one of a two part album collaboration between Shakuhachi master Kifu Mitsuhashi and jazz musician Kiyoshi Yamaya Together the two artists blended their individual musical disciplines to compose an album that beautifully captures the spirit of both...
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FLATT THE LAIDBACK s latest reissue project EXHUME EXHUME Debbie s Ally was formed in the 1980s by Okinawan singer Debbie who was formerly a member of funk soul...
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Grave of the Fireflies directed by Isao Takahata in 1988 is now available as a part of the analog edition series of popular Studio Ghibli works Both the image album collection and soundtrack collection of the movie Grave of the Fireflies have been remastered with...
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A highly coveted record A reissue of instructional records by talented studio musicians Super Percussion Vol 1 is the only solo album released by Tatsuo Hayashi who played drums for Tin Pan Alley and Caramel Mama This album which has historically been famous as a...
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Japan s leading big band Sharps amp Flats created a unique work featuring 22 year old up and coming pianist Takehiko Honda The sound of an electric piano rolling comfortably over the powerful big band sound is absolutely incredible In addition this record features covers...
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Paradigm Shift is a fusion progressive rock group formed by talented studio musicians First released in 1986 The Rain Child And The River King is the groups second album Makoto Matsushita guitar vocals Yasuo Tomikura b Makoto Matsuda keyboards and Masahiro Miyazaki ds
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Yokobue player Michiko Akao s 1983 publication Yokobue Michiko Akao s World which was also published in the New Age Music Disc Guide published by DU BOOKS is reproduced for the first time A new age work that greatly transcends the...
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Features Japanese soft rock by genius Yasuo Higuchi Pico The original soundtrack of the movie Did the Red Bird Escape Starring Kaori Momoi and Yoshio Harada was released in 1973 The soundtrack for this film reaches the highest peak of rare grooves First time on...
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The 2nd album Ame agari no Machi which was released in 1973 by Tomio Terada a rare melody maker who made his major debut as the first Japanese artist on the MGM label in 1972 has been highly acclaimed as a...
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Kyouko Furuya began her career as a piano student in Tokyo s Kunitachi College of Music Debuting in a duo dubbed Virgo with future actress Yumi Mizusawa they quietly became a popular thing in the acoustic Tokyo folk scene With time though Kyouko Furuya pursued...
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Twin Cosmos is not only the name of the musical output of fraternal twins Morihito amp Yasuhito Ito but more philosophically an album that encapsulates the universe of twins The pair were born 1953 in Yokkaichi Mie Prefecture A port city 50 kilometres west of Nagoya famous for its chemical...
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Ever since he made his first trip to Japan to DJ Optimo Music founder JD Twitch has been bewitched by Japanese music and particularly the vibrant imaginative and often far sighted sounds which emerged from the island nation during the 1980s Now he s put years of digging in Japanese...
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2022 repress Eiko Ishibashi s sixth solo album The Dream My Bones Dream rides the rails into a partly envisioned partly imagined past Eiko s previous songs with singing records explored the ambitions and intoxications of pop music but never so dramatically as with The Dream My Bones Dream Here...
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A private press rarity that few know of Song of Island was the third album from pianist Yasuhiro Kohno s trio recorded live at the jazz club and live house gig venue Again in August 1985 Pressed up in small numbers Song for Island was issued on the private ASCAP...
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The Body Is A Message Of The Universe originally created and released in a small edition in Japan back in 1987 by Shiho Yabuki The Body Is A Message Of The Universe features floating shimmering synthesizer textures It s unique and extra ordinarily serene with shifting tone colours and spatial...
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NYC s amazing Blank Forms Editions give a gripping introduction to Kazuki Tomokawa s avant folk vitality documenting the early years of the screaming philosopher via his first three albums all collected and reissued internationally for the first time think Nick Drake meets Keiji Haino In the 1970s Kazuki...
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NYC s amazing Blank Forms Editions give a gripping introduction to Kazuki Tomokawa s avant folk vitality documenting the early years of the screaming philosopher via his first three albums all collected and reissued internationally for the first time think Nick Drake meets Keiji Haino At the tender age of...
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Reissue originally released in 1986 A dreamlike dispatch from mid 80s Japan the first and only Hallelujahs album is an entrancing and gentle work of psychedelic pop brilliance In a series of informal studio sessions between 1985 and 1986 Shinji Shibayama Nagisa Ni Te gathered a group of friends emerging...
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50 years ago Hokkaido born singer songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single Sekishoku Ereji Red Elegy an emotive shuffling piano ballad that shockingly sold half a million copies in Japan While he would never have another Top 40 hit Agata would spend the next half century issuing a series...
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Keitaro Miho a pianist composer arranger who has influenced not only jazz but also the Japanese music world He also worked as a film director actor racing driver writer and commentator and became popular as a versatile cultural figure Since the latter half of the...
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Samurai Champloo Music Record Impression is the fourth soundtrack album in the series of the anime show Samurai Champloo It contains tracks by Nujabes Force of Nature Fat Jon and MINMI The lyrics on Hiji Zuru Style are written and performed...
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Samurai Champloo Music Record Departure is a soundtrack album originally released on June 23 2004 It is the second of four soundtrack albums released for the show The album was produced by Japanese DJ producer Nujabes and American MC producer Fat Jon and featured Japanese...
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Available from Blank Forms for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM Uranoia New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus Blank Forms s high quality reissue of the sought after...
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The music Coltrane Tyner and others did back in their prime made a sizable ripple in jazz Many went on to emulate their style well after the originators either died or moved on For the most part I find these emulator or keepers of the flame to be more polite...
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The only work of the progressive rock band Strawberry Path by the legendary Japanese rock world Shigeru Narumi g key b and former food brain Hiro Tsunoda vo ds The day when he came to the earth is officially decided to reprint the LP for...
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The new wave jazz album left in 1987 is the first analog reprint Based on the sound produced by Masanori Sasaji ex Maria the left field avant jazz work 87 that was imbued is the first reissue that reproduces the artwork of that time as...
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The respected Japanese jazz drummer Akira Ishikawa was not messing around when he recorded the Uganda Dawn of Rock album with his band the Count Buffaloes For this offering originally released in 1972 on Toshiba Records Akira Ishikawa takes us on a deep tripped out journey Uganda Dawn of Rock...
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Operating out of a small upstairs space just around the corner from the train station in the Kichijoji neighborhood of Tokyo OZ was a scruffy DIY affair that lasted not much more than a year Between June 1972 to September 1973 the...
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An archives are thrilled to announce the release of Ricshari the first LP from Japanese free improvising duo Mai Mao Consisting of Shizuo Uchida of Hasegawa Shizuo Albedo Gravitas Archeus Kito Muzukumi Rouber Terror Shit UH etc on bass and Kyosuke Terada of HUH who have their own release due...
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A fresh melody and harmony reminiscent of Sugar Babe a naked sound image a masterpiece of early city pop illusion that has been attracting attention in recent years Kazushi Inamura s debut work is reissued with an original special jacket...
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Elastic groove Beautiful tune Hard bop jazz rock fusion No label can capture the essence of this work Pure crystals are now shining again The popular work Leeward is popular among fans as Mabumi s fan This is the second album recorded in 1978 by Mabumi Yamaguchi a saxophonist who...
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This pleasure that the whole body is paralyzed by a single drum Akira Ishikawa a transcendental funky drummer born in Japan runs around the wonderland of the groove Akira Ishikawa a transcendental funky drummer born in Japan His ability to run around and fuse jazz...
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