Toe are well renowned back home in Japan for creating a thrilling, beautiful live sound incorporating acoustic guitars, rhodes piano and vibraphones. The Future Is Now is their 2012 EP.
Unlike many other Indian musicians who have become famous in the West, he has stayed true to pure Indian classical music. For Amjad Ali Khan, his music is a serious art that deserves time and respect.
As with previous volumes, the work here is a unique hybrid of influences from American and Japanese sources – partly based in jazz, but also with a fair bit of funk and soul too.
Hosono's solo career would take many twists and turns from this point forward, with forays into exotica, electronic, ambient, and techno, culminating in the massive success of techno pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO)
A direct dissociation from the increasing popularity of progressive metal/rock of the time; a plunge into disfigured grooves and intricate time signatures, whilst still remaining irresistibly catchy and direct.
A meditative electronic masterpiece from 1970s Japan, 1977 to be exact. The year Wax Trax first moved to 13th and Washington. Hideki Matsutake is the 4th member of Yellow Magic Orchestra and also the man behind Logic System. Excellent weirdness!
The 6th album from new wave-progressive singer Yumi Murata, who is also known for participating in the production of the state-of-the-art mutational music group 'Maria'.
A collaborative, unique record, in which innovative songs transcend the boundaries of traditional music by mixing modernity, rural, and electronic atmospheres, local arias and contemporary music.
Yano recorded Ai Ga Nakucha Ne, her sixth studio album, with Japan's Mick Karn, Steve Jansen, and David Sylvian at London's Air Studios. The album exhibits her distinctive electro-pop sound, with lyrics sung in both Japanese and English.
Jun Hashimoto’s nihilistic lyrics and Ayumi Ishida’s cool singing match perfectly, making this a great album that cannot be avoided when talking about new music.
An exceptional collection of jazz funk / rare groove tunes recorded in the mid-seventies at the Nippon Columbia studios by three giants of Japanese music: arranger Kiyoshi Yamaya, koto legend Toshiko Yonekawa and shakuhachi master Kifu Mitsuhashi.
The everlastingly unique Susumu Yokota pursued a world filled with beauty and delicate expression in Symbol, the first in a series of newly remastered works to be reissued with P-VINE records. Despite having his life cut tragically short, Yokota left behi
Essential Japanese folk and rock songs from Japan’s 1960s angura (short for underground) movement. Angura rejected the Beatles-wannabes and created “new music”, where authenticity was central.
