JapaneseSounds

Something depressive for a change

2016-03-20T10:34:00+00:00

Yoriko Ichinomiya: Folk singer-songwriter and piano. Her Facebook page reads “just a drinker with a habit of singing and playing piano”. Personally, it feels great to hear something depressive in Japanese for a change.

一ノ宮頼子 - 恋と愛

Yoriko Ichinomiya - After the rain

Indie girls

2016-03-20T10:10:18+00:00

Remigai: Indie pop and folk from Nagoya. mmm: Read as ”mi-mai-mo”. Great concerts, shy and funny on stage, a multi-instrumentalist. Almost a one person show. Also plays the flute in the band Oono Yuuki. Spangle call Lilli line: Indie, electronica, downtempo.

Remigai - Catch

mmm - Amanojaku

Spangle call Lilli line - Tesla

Takuya Kuroda

2016-02-21T02:01:41+00:00

Takuya Kuroda: Japanese trumpeter from Kobe, now based in Brooklyn. Part of José James’ band and now starring solo too. Groovy, funky.

Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son (Full Album)

Mio Matsuda’s musical journeys

2016-01-30T04:28:12+00:00

Mio Matsuda: sings in Japanese, Portuguese, Cape Verde creole, Spanish… Multicultural and inspiring. Her album “Creole” does interesting music journalism and fieldwork, collecting and preserving local songs from around the world.

Documentary about “Creole”

Mio Matsuda - Imin-bushi (Canção do imigrante)

Mio Matsuda - Canto para Mama

Kikagaku Moyo

2015-12-02T13:50:53+00:00

Kikagaku Moyo: psychadelic band from Tokyo. Vocals, guitars, sitar, drums. Great live shows, dynamic and varied. Their webpage: http://geometricpatterns.bandcamp.com/

Kikagaku Moyo - Tree Smoke

Kikagaku Moyo - Zo no Senaka

Blues and whisky

2015-10-28T14:26:00+00:00

Yukadan: blues band from Osaka. Odorou Matilda: a solo project slightly reminding tom waits. Odorou means “dance!”, a reference to Waltzing Matilda. Cool deep voices, a rare find in popular Japanese music.

憂歌団 - おそうじおばちゃん

踊ろうマチルダ - ギネスの泡と共に

踊ろうマチルダ - 箒川を渡って

T字路s

2015-10-07T12:16:46+01:00

From this year’s Shimokitazawa Indie Fanclub. T字路s (tjiros): blues and rock with an intense vocal. If you like it, check Taeko Ito’s other band DIESEL ANN.

T字路s - 少年

T字路s - これさえあれば

Accordion and Charan-Po-Rantan

2012-08-24T11:41:16+01:00

Charan-Po-Rantan: accordion and vocal folk. Sometimes accompanied by “CanCan Balkan” with saxophones and drums.

Charan Po Rantan - Parade of Life

Charan Po Rantan and CanCan Balkan - Mustafa

More funk (and summer festival advertising)

2012-06-21T04:48:57+01:00

Playing at Shimokitazawa Indie Fan Club festival this year. Gentle Forest Jazz Band: big band, Zainichi Funk’s trumpeter. SAKEROCK: instrumental funk from Zainichi Funk’s Kenta Hamano. Petrolz: funky indie, not funk, vocal, bass, drums.

Gentle Forest Jazz Band - エンド・ル・マネー

SAKEROCK - MUDA

Petrolz - Insider

Shiina Ringo (I)

2012-05-14T13:12:17+01:00

Shiina Ringo: doing jazz, punk rock, experimental, big band, both solo and with “Tokyo Jihen”.

Shiina Ringo - Gamble

Shiina Ringo - 神様、仏様

Tokyo Jihen - OSCA