Farside Records: "Special collaboration box set of 2 double CDs (4 discs) and DVD.
The CDs are 'Natsukashi no Eiga Daizenshu -Shochiku Eiga Hen' Volumes 1 and 2. They are compilation albums of hit songs from hit films performed by film stars and musicians fro...
(Vintage and Showa Kayo Popular Music, the very best of the 50s)
To a degree, I love Japan’s early 50s more than the earliest 30s/40s stuff. These (always) charming songs are more expressively sung, with voices show...
Meta Comp. 大東京ジャズ (Jazz in the Great Tokyo 1925-1940) (2014)***°
There are a few compilations in this series. Another one is dedicated to jazz in Osaka (1924-1941), and a last one to Jazz in the Central City - Great Nagoya's Tsuru-Asahi Jazz Son...
A really great example of original creative songwriting and music on the interesting, early URC label, that was launched after a first folk boom influence from America, this mean...
Noble Label Motoomi Doi : The Illuminated Nightingale (JP,2013)***/****
Long time ago since I have heard any folktronic related release. The Japanese one-man band Motoomi Doi delivers us a CD that has aspects of bedroom lullabies with a slightly odd, a...
Drag City Rec. Eiko Ishibashi : Imitation of Life (JAP/US,2013)***'
Japan knows different sorts of singer-songwriters. Some of them show interests in all sorts of progressive and experimental directions for the accompaniment/band arrangements, wh...
I needt to mention this wonderful release, which shows a mixture of perfectly recorded ballroom jazz with Korean traditions in singing mixed with the more mambo-era related jazzy ballroom styled...
I was very curious to hear the popular music of Japan from the 30s to have a good idea what was made there to compare also with the recorded music of the 30s in Korea, simply because something does not feel right in the complaints from the Koreans that they were only p...
Express Kazuhiko Kato : Come to my bedside...(1969,re.1999)**°°
Tr.7, 9月はほうき星が流れる時 11 min
Solo artist from Folk Crusaders. This is varied folkpop with some "hippie"-free mind touches. This chosen Japanese-sounding song is arranged with a complete orch...