I’m sorry Mr. Asuna, because I haven’t heard of you before this album. Can I blame the music industry for this?
Basically your music has been running in my head since I was a 5 year old kid enjoying the sun and being naughty. The music industry has indirectly denied access to your music by [...]

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If there’s one band I’m sure I’ll never be disappointed with, it’s Señor Coconut! Mr. Uwe Schmidt (aka a huge number of names including Atom Heart, Erik Satin, Lisa Carbon etc. in fact if I tried to sample one song from all his identites, I will bust my monthly bandwidth) and his orchestra of [...]

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They’re both Japanese. Let’s just get that fact out of our way at once. Why oh why are japanese so good with jazz?
It’s probably the same as electronics. They take revenge from the western world by doing the things they take from westerners better than the west. Yes, don’t be fooled by their smiling [...]

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I first heard about Asa-Chang & Junray with the song Hana a few years ago. This was a radically different music than the Western conception of music. Tabla was used like the Indian tabla masters, creating syllables that matched with Asa-Chang’s singing, however the music and the lyrics were Japanese, a strange hybrid.
It’s so interesting [...]

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hi kids! i am error101 and this is my first post so be kind:)I wanna tell you about Buffalo Daughter now. Although I just found them out, it seems that they’re a Japanese band from Tokyo that’s been around since ‘94. (for those of you who don’t remember, that’s before being a jap-band was hip.)

Anyways, [...]

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