Ishiro Honda - Godzilla
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD680
Artist: Ishiro Honda
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cult, Fantasy, Japan, Monster Movies.
Yumikonian Orchestra - Blue Light Osaka
Big band formed and led by Japanese piano lady Yumiko Murakami.
Label: YMK / 1
Artist: Yumikonian Orchestra
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Japan.
Noriko Tujiko - I Forgot the Title
Featuring 4 tracks from her rare and pretty hard to find debut album, “Keshou To Heita”, plus one new track recorded at the Rhiz in Vienna on one of..(read more)
Label: Mego / 57
Artist: Noriko Tujiko
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Japan, Songwriters, Vinyl.
Okada Toshio / Kenichi / Nagao Jin - Otaku No Video
In Japan, Otaku means someone who goes to extremes in his ‘hobby’. The people from the Gainax studios here look at themselves, true anime otaku, at ..(read more)
Label: Gainax / 30098
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Animation, Anime, Japan.
Nobukazu Takemura - Sign
SPECIAL OFFER!Great album plus a bonus CD_ROM with animations by Katsura Moshino.
Label: Thrill Jockey / 01-12-20
Artist: Nobukazu Takemura
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Electronic Rock, Japan.
Yuko Nexus6 - Nexus6 Song Book
Yuko in Ella Fitzgerald mode, with an unusual selection of songs treated into surrealism: jazz standards, a toastmaster classic, traditional Japanese folk melod..(read more)
Label: sonore / SON 23
Artist: Yuko Nexus6
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Acoustic, Japan.
Yuko Nexus6 - Journal de Tokyo
Her 3rd album for Sonore, won an award in the Prix Ars Electronica competition 2003. A wonderful, evocative hodge-podge of field recordings, spoken word, instru..(read more)
Label: sonore / SON 19
Artist: Yuko Nexus6
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Acoustic, Field Recordings, Japan.
Magical Power Mako - Lo Pop Diamonds
This japanese multi-instrumentalist was one of the main exponents of the 70s progressive scene there, said to be influenced by the likes of Faust. This comes fr..(read more)
Label: Atavistic / ALP101
Artist: Magical Power Mako
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Collage, Japan.
Emi Maeda - Yeux
Emi is from Japan but lives in Helsinki. She is a trained harpist (classical or celtic harp) and she use it as source for some great overwhelming noise soundsca..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Emi Maeda
Medium: 3" CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Japan, Noise.
