Mixing anything from bossa nova, jazz, hip hop to traditional folk and Shibuya-Kei, Baku Furukawa offers us an eclectic soundtrack to our summer trips.
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Chinese indie / dream / noise pop at its best.
I am here to ask you to place an empathetic ear to the ground to listen to the sound of collapse.
Mix of post-punk, electronica, and psychedelic music from Beijing’s Absolute Purity.
After singing as heroine in Mamoru Hosoda’s animated film “Belle“, promising singer-songwriter Kaho Nakamura (中村佳穂) shared her third full-length effort “NIA”.
betcover!!, a solo project of Jiro Yanase from Tokyo, might be the Japanese equivalent of King Krule.
Japanese folk meets elements of post-rock and improvisations on Yuta Orisaka’s third album “Shinri” (心理), which means “State of mind”.
While inspired by Wild Beasts and Radiohead, Chinese alternative rockers Silent Speech create their own, fascinating world.
Some of Tokyo’s most fascinating musicians meet on Reisaburo Adachi new-old record.