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.
Inu-Yaroh - Adapt
Label: Under the Sun / UTSR-0006b
Artist: Inu-Yaroh
Medium: MCD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Japan.
Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
One of the greatest films of all time, Akira’s Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai has influenced the work of directors from George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, and spaw..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIV2004
Artist: Akira Kurosawa
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Classics, Japan, World Cinema.
Various Artists - Improvised Music from Japan 2006
Improvised Music from Japan 2006 takes in this special issue a look at improvised/experimental music in Berlin, compiled and mastered by Nicholas Bussmann on 2 ..(read more)
Publisher: Improvised Music from Japan / IMJ-308/9
Author: Various Artists
Medium: 2CD + Book
Categories: Books & Magazines, Records & Tapes.
Tags: Berlin, Improvisation, Japan.
