Tag: Better Days

• ‘Tokyo Dreaming’ is an essential selection of Japanese music from the Nippon Columbia/Better Days archive by the long-established taste-maker Nick Luscombe for Wewantsounds

  Aficianados of Japanese music will be truly nourished by this latest selection by Nick Luscombe for Wewantsounds, with a focus on a key label and the sumptuous city pop genre. Tokyo Dreaming presents a wide range of ear charming music, with surprises even for the devoted collector of this canon. Nippon Columbia – one of…

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  November 23, 2020

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  Akiko Yano, Akira Sakata, ​Chika Asamoto, BBC Radio, Better Days, British Airways radio stations, Chief Music Editor, Director of Music at London Institute of Contemporary Art, founder, iTunes, Jun Fukamachi, Kazumi Watanabe, Late Junction, Monocle, MSCTY, Nick Luscombe, Nippon Colombia, Optimo, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeo Sekito, Yasuaki Shimizu, Yumi Murata

• New material and reissues from Japan display musical diversity of nation

  One of the recent highlights has been the super-funky, super flaky LP by Shintaro Sakamoto. The former Yura Yura Teikoko guitarist smashes it with his Hawaiian lap steel guitar on this, the fourth solo album by this pioneer. When Sakamoto duets with robot voices (Purging the Demons) we are hearing something unique. Love Is Possible…

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  October 31, 2017

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  Better Days, Even A Tree Can Shed Tears, Hachimitsu Pie, Haruomi Hosono, Japan, Kakashi, Kazuhiko Kato, Kazuhiko Yamahira & The Sherman, Kenji Endo, Light In The Attic, Sachiko Kanenobu, Shintaro Sakamoto, Takashi Nishioka, Yasuaki Shimizu