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Various Artists

Spiritual Jazz 8, Japan, Part 1

Our latest examination of Esoteric, Modal & Progressive Jazz of the 20th Century has taken us to Japan. The liberating force of jazz has been created... more...

• 1 Mitsuaki Kanno - Kumo No Ito
• 2 Tadao Hayashi - My Favorite Things
• 3 Minoru Muraoka - Positive & Negative
• 4 Takeo Moriyama - East Plants

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Pier & Loft

Recommended by: MinimalRome

Gorgeous and essential archive material from this master of mood. The latest unearthing on Chee Shimizu's 17853 - previously only available on a limit... more...

• 1 Horizon I've Ever Seen Before
• 2 Signal F
• 3 Tokyo Bay Area
• 4 Wavy-patterned Ice Cream

Yasuaki Shimizu

Kakashi

Recommended by: RAFF | Nina Kraviz

Re-issued again, with new liner notes. A wonderful, rare record wrapped in a mysterious yet playful ambiance. Or maybe it’s just the impression that t... more...

• 1 Suiren
• 2 Kakashi
• 3 Kono Yo Ni Yomeri 1
• 4 Semitori No Hi

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Music for Nine Post Cards

Recommended by: Nina Kraviz

Due to the quiet nature of this recording, if your LP exhibits distortion upon playback, simply adjust your tone arm to add more weight to the needle.... more...

• 1 Water Copy
• 2 Clouds
• 3 Blink
• 4 Dance PM

Aiko

Fly With Me

The Japanese singer Aiko Sekiguchi teaming up with Dale Senaga in 1979. The pair flew from Hawaii to California to record the backing tracks at A&M St... more...

• 1 Fly With Me
• 2 Time Machine

Mariah

Utakata No Hibi

Recommended by: Willie Burns | The Pilotwings

1983 cult-classic 'Mariah - Utakata No Hibi' sees its re-release for the first time. Deluxe edition with printed innersleeves. The long sought after... more...

• 1 Sokokara
• 2 Shisen
• 3 Hana Ga Saitara
• 4 Fujiyu Na Nezumi

Mermaid

Dubmaid

Limited to 300 copies. Japanese musician MERMAID, focusing on new roots dub with all bases in sine wave. The songs have plenty of echoes of cham... more...

• 01 chopin dub
• 02 water
• 03 lonely
• 04 free dub

E.S.

Islands Southwind

FJLP-05 continues with Forest Jams recent trend of Japanese re-issues from the 90s. This one is E.S. Islands Southwind from Hachijo a deep ambient exp... more...

• 01 Unknown Title
• 02 Fernanda
• 03 Unknown Title
• 04 Trail

Yui Onodera

Kiso Three Rivers

Pairing delicate synthesis and instrumentation with field recordings and negative space, the accomplished artist and sound architect examines the impa... more...

• 1 Kodama 1
• 2 Kodama 2
• 3 Kodama 3
• 4 Kodama 4

Various Artists

TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

When Japanese composer Yas-Kaz left Tokyo for Bali in the mid 1970s he had little idea of how influential his trip would become. In studying the stori... more...

• 1 Korogi 73 - Fushigi Song
• 2 Yas-Kaz - Hei (Theme of Shikioni)
• 3 Yoichiro Yoshikawa - Tassili N Ajjer
• 4 Norihiro Tsuru - Farsighted Person

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Flora

Limited blue vinyl version! The first-ever official reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura's underappreciated ambient classic. It was originally recorded and com... more...

• 01 Over The Clover
• 02 Flora
• 03 Asagao
• 04 Ojigisou

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Flora

The first-ever official reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura's underappreciated ambient classic. It was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and remained... more...

• 01 Over The Clover
• 02 Flora
• 03 Asagao
• 04 Ojigisou

Cho Co Pa Co Cho Co Quin Quin

Tradition

Japanese acid pop outfit Cho Co Pa Co Cho Co Quin Quin channel the globe-trotting spirit of Haruomi Hosono’s 70s tropical psychedelia on debut album,... more...

• 01 Chichibu
• 02 Watatsumi
• 03 Cuba
• 04 15 Eunomia

Ryuichi Sakamoto

B-2 UNIT

Released in 1980 while Yellow Magic Orchestra was enjoying its first wave of mega-success, B-2 Unit was Ryuichi Sakmoto's second full length solo effo... more...

• 01 Differencia
• 02 Thatness and Thereness
• 03 Participation Mystique
• 04 E-3A

Haruomi Hosono

Cochin Moon

Released in September 1978, a mere two months before YMO's debut, ''Cochin Moon'' is a clear precursor to the groundbreaking synth and sequencer-domin... more...

• 01 Hotel Malabar Ground Floor ... Triangle Circuit On The Sea-Forest
• 02 Hotel Malabar Upper Floor ... Moving Triangle
• 03 Hotel Malabar Roof Garden ... Revel Attack
• 04 Hepatitis

Various Artists

Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973

In late ‘60s Japan, student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground'') movement that thrived on subverting... more...

• 01 Kenji Endo - Curry Rice
• 02 Kazuhiko Yamahira & The Sherman - Sotto Futari De
• 03 Sachiko Kanenobu - Anata Kara Toku E
• 04 Fluid - Roku Denashi