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Das Titelstück des neuen Yasushi Yoshida-Albums lässt das Jahr versöhnlich ausklingen. "Grateful Goodbye" heisst Yasushi Yoshida s drittes, beim kleinen, aber feinen japanischen Label Noble erschiene Album. Und so drehen sich die elf Instrumental-Geschichten denn auch um Abschiede. Schwermütig spielen sie von Vergangenem, Verlorenem, lassen aber, dankbar für die gewonnene Erinnerung, im Blick in die Zukunft auch eine gehörige Portion Optimismus und Neugier mitschwingen. "It is not a film score. It is not classical music. It is not post-rock. It is pure and beautiful music at its [...]
Katsuhiko Maeda returns with his first album in three years. Seven Idiots heightens the emphasis on rock instrumentation by incorporating guitars and percussion more than his past efforts, but Maeda's idiosyncratic tendencies remain prevalent and he again creates an excellent addition to his vastly underrated discography. I doubt this is a sound you have ever heard before, so brace yourself.
Ian suggested I rank the "top ten Japanese albums" for my next installment of the Friday Top Ten franchise. That's right, it's a franchise now. As far as I know you don't have to do more than two or three of something in order to make it a franchise. They call the Twilight movies a franchise and there are only three of them. I've written nearly 200 top ten lists, I'd say that's a god damned franchise, wouldn't you? Anyway, I thought that Ian had a good idea, but there are so many different kinds of Japanese music, [...]
Good Sunday, friends. Today was one of those perfect lazy days when you wake up (in a bagel-less house, oh, the horror!), head out to the market, and then spend the afternoon eating nachos and drinking strawberry champagne in the company of good people. Everyone professed their love for one another. It was rather beautiful in a warm and fuzzy way. Tonight I think I'm staying in. Last night was the first night in a while that did not end with me drunkenly passing out somewhere, though I did alter my state and try to watch an episode of "Lost" [...]
Photo credit: Michael.DK This list is for Gilles and all of our other readers who are trapped between their office walls all throughout this summer. While everyone else is on vacation, enjoying the great weather, swimming, going to the beach, making new friends, barbequing, having careless fun, driving around in cabriolets, making out all day or just relaxing, there is a small group of unfortunate people who still sit behind their office computer, everyday, from 9 to 5, no air-conditioning, with sweaty suits clinging to their bodies, musty air, endless paperwork, tiresome office regulations [...]
Label: NOBLE Location: Tokyo, Japan Since: 2001 Music Style: ELECTRONIC MUSIC Artists: WORLD'S END GIRLFRIEND - CINQ - TENNISCOATS - NATSUME - GUTEVOLK - EISI - KAZUMASA HASHIMOTO - YASUSHI YOSHIDA - MIDORI HIRANO La giapponese Noble Label inaugura su IFB [...]
Obscure Sound
Swan Fungus
motel de moka
Indie For BUNNIES
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mr Fogg - Eleven
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
