Far East
$44.99
Six years since his last album, Love If Possible, Shintaro Sakamoto has completed his fourth solo album, Like A Fable. The album's ten songs describe everyday life in a world undergoing dramatic changes in the midst of a pandemic. Sakamoto continually updates his sound, and with Like A Fable, he...
$49.99
Outside of the world, the second album by Japanese trio Usurabi, is a rare pleasure – a guitar pop album that’s deep with spirit, bristling with energy, melodically rich and precious: full of life. It’s even more thrilling than its predecessor, 2021’s Remains of the Light, also released by An’archives,...
$49.99
Kusōzu : Death Nine Stages is the second album by the Tokyo trio Archeus, which consists of Keiko Higuchi (voice, percussion, trombone, shamisen), Shizuo Uchida (bass strings), and TOMO (hurdy gurdy, voice). It follows their debut, self-titled and self-released CD and cassette from 2021 and is further proof – if...
$49.99
From the moment they emerged in the early days of the '80s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. The group's core duo of Asahito Nanjo on bass/vocals and Munehiro...
$32.99
Freaked out lo-fi psychedelic noise recordings from 1972 and 1980 by the mythical Japanese psych rockers Les Rallizes Dénudés, including the 23-minute "Guitar Jam" filling the complete A-side, a sort of Stooges riff with Ramones-like drumming ending up in a total feedback noise orgy. Recorded on Sept. 9, 1980. Side...
$32.99
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following...
$79.99
A timeless masterpiece in the history of Japanese ambient/minimal music is going to be reissued as a LP+12inch including previously unreleased material!! Sound Process Design, a company founded by Satoshi Ashikawa, a pioneer of environmental music in Japan, distributed this work in 1984. The full picture of this work, which...
$84.99
Yamashita’s 3rd solo record, Go Ahead!, defined the path he would subsequently follow as it a blossomed writer acclaimed for this versatility. The songs “Let’s Dance Baby”, “Bomber” & “潮騒 (The Whispering Sea)” would’ve be featured in his 1982 greatest hits album “Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita”. Meanwhile,...
$84.99
Bursting with energy on the eve of his big break, Yamashita’s 4th record was a major milestone. The highly acclaimed MOONGLOW is Yamashita’s record that stayed the longest in the Oricon charts. Most of the songs included in this album were written by Minako Yoshida and composed...
$74.99
The long-awaited record reprint of the historical masterpiece released by Kazumi Yasui, a female lyricist who created a new image of women in Japan! Yasui himself wrote the lyrics for all the songs, while Kunihiko Murai, Hiroshi Kamayatsu, Kenji Sawada, Terumasa Hino, Mamoru Manu (Golden Cups) provided the music. Contains...
$79.99
A reissue of the 1971 rock masterpiece “TOO MUCH” is finally here! “TOO MUCH” is the only album released by the four-member new rock band “JUNI & TOO MUCH”. The original edition with Rock Age OBI is “TOO MUCH”, which is known for its mega-rare edition, which is rarely seen...
$49.99
In 1974, Hiroshi Tanaka and Yoichi Fuwa, the self-proclaimed heirs of the Beatles, crammed into a 75 square foot room and recorded over 50 songs, all without names. 19 of those songs would be self released on a record titled “Untitled White Album”, of which only 100 copies...
$49.99
WRWTFWW Records announce the first official worldwide reissue of Satsuki Shibano's Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984, the final album from the sound-defining Wave Notation environmental music series curated by Satoshi Ashikawa. Originally released in 1984 on the Sound Process label, Wave Notation 3 followed Ashikawa's own Still Way (1982)...
$39.99
It's fair to say that what Ravi Shankar did for the sitar, Hamza El Din did for the oud (the short-necked Arabian lute): bringing a little-known instrument to the attention of the West and popularizing it. Indeed, he ended up playing oud with everybody from the Grateful Dead to the...
$59.99
Reissue, originally released in 1997. Merzbow is the moniker of Japanese artist Masami Akita inspired by dadaism and surrealism. During the mid-1990s, the Japanese artist went through his most prolific and inspired period of the analog era, releasing masterpieces such as Noisembryo, Venereology, Hybrid Noisebloom, or Green Wheels. In that...
$44.99
32 short tracks make up "Chinoiseries" delivering a tight selection in teh style of J Dilla, Rza, Madlib, MF Doom and the Sublime Frequencies label rolled into one beautifully incoherent package. While the exotika, folk and plastic pop of the source material here could so easily have ended up sounding...
$44.99
PT 2 of Onra's classic Chinoiseries series, which had him going off digging all over China and Vietnam on a quest for loops.. 'Same Same but Different', the familiar phrase heard throughout south east Asia, a perfect description to characterize Onra’s latest project, a follow up to his 2007 LP...
$44.99
"Almost 10 years have passed since Onra arrived with the charmingly eccentric Chinoiseries LP. 32 Hip-Hop beats formed the sample-based project - dusty Chinese vinyl hissing and crackling throughout – resulting in an intriguing and spontaneous mix of the producers interest in exploring a newly-discovered style of Music with his...
$52.99
Japanese master drummer Takeo Moriyama returns to BBE Music’s J Jazz Masterclass Series in a majestic live set showcasing his exemplary musicianship and stature as one of the leading names in Japanese modern jazz. Recorded in December 1990 at the jazz club Lovely in Nagoya, this set sees Moriyama’s quartet...
$44.99
Mute reissues Our Likeness by the renowned avant-garde artist. Originally released in 1992, Our Likeness was Phew’s second solo album following her self- titled debut. This long out of print album saw Phew collaborate with the legendary and peerless Alexander Hacke (hackedepicciotto, Einstruzende Neubauten), Jaki Liebezeit (CAN) and Chrislo Haas...
$34.99
Saadia Jefferson is a glorious act of vandalism on Yemeni traditions led by inventor, carpenter, musician, and composer Eyal El Wahab. Dismantling lyrics, melodies, and compositions from Yemeni folk songs, El Khat delve into uncharted sonic territory updating Yemen's ancient culture. Using an orchestra of instruments old and new, many...
$36.99
Japanese jazz/breakbeat, folkloric mega-rarity as hallowed the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Minoru Muraoka plays ‘shakuhachi’ – a traditional bamboo Japanese flute – joined by his band members accompanying him on the ‘koto’ (strings) and ‘tsutsumi’ (drum)...
$39.99
Doubling the label’s tally after 7FO’s ‘Moment’ 2LP, ‘Komachi’ yields a more serene angle to Meitei’s music in 12 instrumental parts rippling with fleeting melodies, fringed by delicate location recordings, and arranged in a naturally time-slipping ebb and flow. While super pretty and functional as ambient scenery to immerse in,...
$39.99
2023 repress. Victory present a reissue of Haruomi Hosono, Takahiko Ishikawa, and Masataka Matsutoya's The Aegean Sea originally released in 1979. The album is somewhat of a companion piece to the previous year's Pacific (V 25AH426). A beautiful piece of Japanese smooth fusion-jazz with elements of traditional Greek music and...
$69.99
Released in 1971, this is the first album produced by a Japanese artist with the overseas market in mind. It was released simultaneously in the United States, Canada, and Japan, and in particular, the single “SATORI PART 2” reached No. 8 in Canada. There is also an oriental thought trend...
$42.99
‘Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003)’ is a new in-depth compilation of works by Japanese musician Dream Dolphin. Co-compiled by long-time friend of the label Eiji Taniguchi, it draws from a vast discography of music oscillating between IDM, Pop and Ambient. First appearing on Eiji’s compilation ’Heisei No Oto...
$44.99
First ever vinyl pressing of Haruomi Hosono's full album N.D.E. Featuring Goh Hotoda, Yasuhiko Terada, Yasuaki Shimizu, Bill Laswell & François Kevorkian. Big TIP! Ever since his days as a pioneer of Japanese electronic music in the 1970s, Haruomi Hosono has constantly pushed forwards musically. The 1990s was a particularly...
$44.99
BBE Music presents the fourth release in their acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series: Topology by Makoto Terashita and Harold Land. Originally released in 1983 on the cult Aketa’s Disk label, Topology captures a surprising yet fascinating and engaging collaboration between a young Japanese jazz pianist and an elder American statesman...
$34.99
Legendary is a word too often used when writing about musicians. Takeshi Terauchi is no myth, more an elemental force and surely a nominee for the status of Living National Treasure – a first for a rock musician in Japan. While not exactly well known in the West, he has...
$44.99
Talk of Japanese soul often refers to enka, the sentimental ballad emanating from downhome bars and karaoke boxes. From the late 1960s, however, reverberations from across the Pacific would lead to the nation’s own take on soul music as we know it in the West. Some of the artists showcased...
$36.99
During the 1990s Shizuka self-released a series of four cassettes, barely heard by anyone outside of their inner circle. Culling together live recordings and home demos, these served as companions to the scant amount of proper Shizuka releases at the time (including the recently reissued Heavenly Persona). Concentric Circles is...
$44.99
2023 repress. Reissue, originally released in 1975. Fuzati (Klub des Loosers) producer and die-hard crate digger has teamed up with Modulor to launch Le Très Jazz Club, a label exclusively dedicated to vinyl reissue and jazz. With this reissue of Orang-Utan by legendary bassist and cello player Isao Suzuki, Le...
$69.99
Remastered sound sources for all songs, double-page spread lyric cards that reproduce the original specifications, reprinted with belt specifications. Released in 1986, the 3rd album counted as one representative of city pop. The medium AOR “Night Cruising” and the refreshing sound of the cutting guitar “Mystical Composer” have gained...
$69.99
Adopted remastered sound sources for all songs, double-page spread lyric cards that reproduce the original specifications, reprinted with belt specifications. The 1st album released in 1984 with an impressive artwork floating in the ennui sea. 80’s J-POP, such as the 80’s funk number “Blind Curve”, which was...
$69.99
Remastered sound sources for all songs, double-page spread lyric cards that reproduce the original specifications, reprinted with belt specifications. An urban mellow 4th album, swayed by the cutting-edge brocon sound at the time. In addition to Tetsuji Hayashi’s consistent production work since his debut, Joe Hisaishi and Shiro...
$69.99
Remastered sound sources for all songs, double-page spread lyric cards that reproduce the original specifications, reprinted with belt specifications. The 2nd album released in 1985, which was produced by further expanding the idol route after the big hit of the 1st. At the time of its release, the...
$36.99
Kikagaku Moyo’s debut album exerts an elemental power. Enlivening their sound with sitars, percussive drums, theremins, wind instruments and ethereal vocals, the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once. Their songs can be light as air, or heavy as earth. Many evolve out...
$36.99
Kikagaku Moyo is the musical union between five free spirits. Go Kurosawa (drums, Vocals) and Tomo Katsurada (Guitar, Vocals) formed the band in 2012 as a free artist’s collective. They met Kotsuguy (Bass) while he was recording noise from vending machines and Akira (Guitar) through their university. Ryu...
$36.99
Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free music collective, it quickly evolved into a tight group of multi-instrumentalists. Kikagaku Moyo call their sound psychedelic because it encompasses a broad spectrum of influence. Their music...
$18.99
Shidaiqu literally means “songs of the era”, a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural...
$18.99
Shidaiqu literally means “songs of the era”, a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural...
$32.99
More unearthed demo recordings by the Japanese psychedelic noise legends Les Rallizes Dénudés. Recorded in Azabu, Tokyo 1985....
$32.99
More unearthed demo recordings by the Japanese psychedelic noise legends Les Rallizes Dénudés. Recorded in Azabu, Tokyo 1985....
$27.99
Beat Konducta in India: Madlib productions inspired by Bollywood soundtracks and other 60s-80s productions from India.
Beat Konducta Vol. 3-4: Beat Konducta in India by Madlib... 
$74.99
This is a valuable live recording of the dawn of Japanese jazz-rock. It is a live recording of the concert <Midsummer Night’s Jazz & Rock> held on July 21, 1970 at Hibiya’s open-air concert hall. It was recorded at about the same time as the masterpiece “Head Rock” by...
$74.99
Soul Media is led by Jiro Inagaki, who played a part in the development of jazz rock in Japan. This album “Memory Lane” was recorded in 1980. Regarding this work, Inagaki said, “We made this work while anticipating the fate of fusion music.” This album contains the mellow...
$79.99
Drummer Akira Ishikawa played an immense role in the development of jazz rock in Japan. He created many works, but among them, his record “Bakimba-His African Memories”, recorded in 1970, has a special presence due to its content and rarity. Accompanied by up-and-coming musicians such as Hiromasa Suzuki,...
$99.99
Beauty is the eighth solo studio album by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. First released in 1989, this album incorporates influences from funk, rock, flamenco, African, Japanese traditional and classical, techno, R&B and dance music, to create a collage of styles, rather than a seamless whole.
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1360768402&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"... Receive the latest news,
including weekly catalog &
new stock updates.
2016 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Open Everyday 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
604-253-7453
audiopilemusic@gmail.com
Shopping Cart