Doing Saturday chores to some absolute Jap Jazz / City Pop belters this morning. What are your favourites?
‘Restless’ on Discogs describes Town as a “mega flamboyant, tense, baroque, almost wild disco number with a very evocative, ‘urban’ sound density ending in a free ‘fauve’ saxophone magma”. Pretty accurate I’d say.
Shades of Unique - What I Got Is What You Need.
Bonkers!
https://youtu.be/Z3O7y451npQ
https://youtu.be/uaikRIITDAU
This one I bought on a whim in a big load I bought from japan off discogs.
Taeko Ohnuki’s first 3 albums are pretty much unbeatable for me. Sunshower takes the cake, just amazing.
A favourite of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXeAQKv78ts
(just realised this is neither Jap JAzz or City Pop, it is good though 
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That’s an awesome track!
I had a feeling there’d be a YMO connection.
Yeah this is awesome.
Ms. Onuki and a certain Sakamoto were/are quite tight. She also had a band with Tatsuro Yamashita early on, they recorded one album and it’s really great.
Cheers, I’ll check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sOKkON_UnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xadHCcgRigU&
Examples from the albums I mentioned earlier.
Some other interesting random things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM71XPCmXqU
(Tom Jobim cover…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kmt_jSwM4
Stevie Wonder did the keyboards and drum programming on this track.
This one recently got some more visibility as the Weeknd/OPN sampled it for “Out of Time” on his new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyS-ms6-RA
This is a nice one, discovered from an edit on ISM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZChC9S6NyU
That is one sweet looking album cover
I’d kill to be somewhere like that right now!
Remember that being on the Mastercuts comp. Loved that!
