Led by Haruomi Hosono, Tin Pan Alley performed this legendary live show on May 8, 1976, at Dohatsu Shinkan, a long-established Chinese restaurant in Yokohama Chinatown. The recording, which captures the atmosphere of that night in vivid detail, has been revived as a stereo mix half a century later, and is now released on vinyl for the very first time ever!

Blue Raindrop is an album and eponymous composition by the grand orchestra conducted by Paul Mauriat, released in 1979 specifically for the Japanese market.

On Message d’amour, Paul Mauriat turns his signature easy-listening touch toward the sounds of late-1970s Japan, crafting an album that stands as a unique cultural bridge between French orchestral elegance and Japanese popular music.

"Kokoro no Jikan"is the long-awaited second album of covers by Japanese singer Emi Fujita, released in 2022, 12 years after her previous album, "Kokoro no Shokutaku." The album is a collection of carefully selected, time-tested Japanese pop songs performed in a soft, acoustic style.

Mayumi Itsuwa japanese singer-songwriter from Tokyo. She released her debut single and album in October 1972. Itsuwa gained moderate success on the Japanese albums chart in her early career, and received massive popularity and acclaim through the single "Koibito yo" released in 1980.

At the end of 2024 I was invited by Hanna Girma at Serpentine Galleries to write a piece of music for the first issue of their publication "Serpentine Reader" - a collection of texts from various authors on the theme of circulation. I was immediately drawn to Hana Pera Aoake’s essay on listening to a river - there was a line that especially resonated with me about how rivers and other waterways in Hana's native Aotearoa are "conceptualised as both or either atua (gods) or living ancestors, who have their own life force and spiritual strength". In Japan, water is also deeply instilled in our culture as a sacred source - as one example, we cleanse ourselves with water at the entrance of a shrine, to purify the body and mind.

Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of Wamono music, Yoshizawa has published in 2015 the now-classic Wamono A to Z records guide book, which instantly sold-out. The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare records from a highly prolific, but still then unknown, Japanese groove scene. He has also selected a large part of the music in our highly acclaimed Wamono compilations.

Cliché is Taeko Ohnuki's 6th album, originally released in 1982. Recorded in Paris and Tokyo, the album features arrangements by Francis Lai's arranger and film composer Jean Musy for the Paris sessions, and by Ryuichi Sakamoto for the Tokyo sessions. With top-notch backing from Haruomi Hosono, Kenji Omura among others, songs like "Kuro No Clair," "Shikisai Toshi," and "Peter Rabbit To Watashi" are considered classics from the early era of her career.

ROMANTIQUE is the fourth studio-recorded album by Japanese singer-songwriter Onuki Taeko. The album "ROMANTIQUE" was released by RCA/RVC in 1980 after Onuki's two-year hiatus, and reached a peak of 72nd on the Oricon charts. This album marked a turning point in Onuki's journey as she established her own style and gained popularity as a solo artist.

Everyone loves Sunshower, so we're happy to present to you Mignonne. We'd gotten questions about this and we're SO excited to get this LP in stock and out to our customers! It is a classic! “Mignonne” is Taeko Onuki’s 3rd album released in 1978, which was the follow-up to her masterpiece “Sun Shower”(1977). Her long time collaborators from Tin Pan Alley continued to collaborate with her for this album. Arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Juzo Seo, and featured musicians such as Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Yukihiro Takahashi. The sound is similar to her previous albums, with rich horns and strings arranged on top of Tin Pan Alley’s soulful rhythmic sections. The tracks have seen a resurgence of late, some of which being covered by contemporary Japanese artists ( “Yoko Gao”, “Umi to Shonen” by Akiko Yano, “Totsuzen no Okurimono” by Mariya Takeuchi).

Our Common Nature is a cultural journey, a celebration of the ways nature can reinvigorate the human experiment, reuniting us in pursuit of a common future.

Recorded at JVC Aoyama Studios, Tokyo, Japan; September 28-30, October 6 and 25, 1999. Japanese Tribute to Bill Evans by Top Pianists Yosuke Yamashita, Hiroko Kokubu, Yoshiko Kishino, and More.

Japanese musician Hakushi Hasegawa/長谷川白紙 proudly announces their new album Mahōgakkō/魔法学校 for LA-based Brainfeeder Records, out July 24th. As part of the announcement, Hasegawa shares a new single and video – “Boy’s Texture” – serving as the album’s second single after last year’s “Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi)”. The news arrives alongside Hasegawa’s grand gesture of revealing their face to fans for the very first time, unveiling a new side of the elusive and compelling artist.

Babymetal return with their powerful new album Metal Forth, a bold evolution of their genre-defying fusion of J-pop and heavy metal, including features from Poppy, Slaughter To Prevail, Tom Morello and Bloodywood. Following the conceptual depths of The Other One, Metal Forth signals a new chapter, blending thunderous riffs, soaring vocals, and high-energy choreography. Building on their global legacy this release reaffirms Babymetal’s status as pioneers pushing metal into the future.

The 3rd album from ysk, released 1 year and 8 months after the previous album "Solitary Faith". YUSUKE ANDO's expression of "consciousness, light, space-time" is fused with vocalist Yuji Ishii to create a unique progressive rock work that has evolved further. Yuji Ishii's world and YUSUKE ANDO's world overlap, becoming one key and opening up a new world. Guest guitarists include Koji Ikuma [cune/BLUEVINE], Nao Japonicus [Gama], YAGI MASAHIKO, and keyboardist Tatsuhiko Iino, and includes the single "imminent" released last year. This is one of the largest Japanese progressive rock albums in Japan.