2017. This relese comes almost in time for the third anniversary of the 'Japan Blues' show on NTS radio, a monthly Japanese musical nabemono, occasionally straying into other Asian territories. The six tracks on thi..

2019. Two tracks on which Archie Shepp blends his jazz talents with psychedelic soul, issued on vinyl! These cuts originally appeared on Archie's 1972 full-length 'Attica Blues' and were also previously released as ..

2022.  'ryukoka recordings 1921-39' - emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in japan, the ryukoka style adopted western classical, blues and jazz elements into traditional and classica..

2021.  'ryukoka recordings 1921-39' - emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in japan, the ryukoka style adopted western classical, blues and jazz elements into traditional and classica..

2021. From boundary-pushing koto musicians to experimental jazz virtuosi, Japanese music has long embraced all things avant-garde. This Rough Guide highlights some of today's key innovators whose individualism chall..

2020. Paul Butterfield set the standards in the 1960s and 1970s for kick-ass white electric blues. Arguably no other group could hold a candle to them. In 1973 he formed Paul Butterfield's Better Days. They issued a..

2010. - Tokyo Traffic,Rising Sun,Toki's Theme,Fujiyama,Zen Is When,The City Is Crying,Osaka Blues,Koto Song

2016. Jonny Barefoot (from Toronto, Canada) draws influence from Country Blues legends like Mississippi John Hurt and Leadbelly and Folk icons like Bruce Cockburn and Bob Dylan to create music that has been called '..

2019. The band Torso is Ken G and Orie. Ken is from Tokyo underground rock band Group, who have previously released on P-Vine Records. Summoning the vibes of Arthur Russell, and minimal composition, the duo use cell..

2016. Yuto Kanazawa is a 26-year-old jazz guitarist from Japan. Tokyo-born and raised in Fukushima, Yuto attended the Koyo Conservatory before moving to Boston, Massachusetts to study at the world-renowned Berklee C..

2022.  .  .  .  /the hall of floaters in the sky' - over 50 million records sold, tours and festival appearances throughout europe and japan, and there are at least 50 cover v..

2015. This remarkably charged live performance by Blondie comes from an FM Radio broadcast and illustrates just what a dynamic yet professional act they were a, full year before the world knew their name. Playing tr..

2012. Acid Mothers Temple return with an expanded Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line up featuring the added guitar skills of Japan underground legend and new full time member Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Gava, Leningrad ..

2018.  '4 interpretations of japanese field recordings' - killing reworks of field recordings.  This project was recorded in japan, and handed over to hiroaki oba, inoue shirabe, tim karbon and j..

2017. “The lead vocal is magic. This group has got soul!” - Dave Godin, Legendary Blues & Soul journalist The BDI’s began their musical career in the north-western town of Southport in the mid-nineties as The Panda..

2018.  - georgia pines (the candymen),stormy monday blues (the candymen),stormy (noah's ark),love me just a little (sometime),will i live on?,stone cold hit (unreleased outtake),long distance love (unrelea..

2017. Musica Altra is an Italian label exploring underground seams of music from around the world. The label's first release is an EP by jazz saxophone experimentalist Gianni Denitto, who's been traveling the globe ..

1989. Byrd got his first real guitar when he was 9, but was not serious until September 18th, 1970--the day Jimi Hendrix died--. Before this, he did not know who he was. His parents had the evening news on that day,..

2009. A full color book bound gatefold sleeve in an edition of 600 copies. A new project featuring members of LSD March and Tenniscoats join forces to create an avant-garde-psych-contry-folk album! Folk-psych folks ..

2013. Tokyo's Ryo Takematsu proves the universality and timelessness of the blues on his debut solo release "Six-O-Seven Blues". Recorded mainly in a Japanese bedroom, Takematsu's heartfelt and sincere ..

2023.  'ryukoka recordings 1921-39' - emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in japan, the ryukoka style adopted western classical, blues and jazz elements into traditional and classica..

2023. Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Tony Williams and Bunny Brunel live from Den-en Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan on 27th July 1979. Two years after the demise of Return To Forever, virtuoso fusioneers Chick Corea and Al Di Me..

2016. Jimmy James - singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. An organic bluesy approach to melodic pop arrangements. Original compositions which are quit catchy, combined with Americana style renditions from arti..

2017.  Archie love simply had no choice… living in memphis, home of the blues, a musically enriched family of gospel singers, to include his father, sisters, brothers, and children, church chorus, school b..

2017. Kelly Hall-Tompkins Violin Kelly Hall-Tompkins is one of New York City’s most in-demand violinists, whose dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. Ms. Hall-Tompkins was winner of a ..

1979. On this compelling new 11-track album recorded in the band's hometown, The Rebirth matches its musical vitality with a gift for lucid poetry and songwriting, creating a rich sound built on an organic blend of ..

2024. The 50/50's formed in 2015 in Osaka, Japan. A rock and roll two-piece blending the essence of garage punk with a blues foundation and thereby creating a powerful music explosion. This is the band's very first ..

2023. Rita Braga is a Porto-based, Portuguese singer and multi-instrumentalist. Rita is a prolific artist who has released a string of cult records, most recently 2020's 'Time Warp Blues.' She has performed hundreds..

2023. "Supernatural Delight", the excellent new instrumental studio disc from the ultimate bluesy heavy guitar jam band from Japan called Bluestone Company (formerly known as Savoy Truffle), features 10 tr..

2023. This is Marvin Gaye's legendary appearance at the Budokan theater in Tokyo in November 1979. A wonderful performance with the great singer backed by a fine, sensitive band and a concert tracklist featuring var..

2017. The A-side of Asda's third release features the poem 'The McDonald's Prayer', all 59 seconds of it. It's a spiritual nausea induced by consuming junk food, followed by a huge lead-out groove to give gastric up..

2022. Fuzzed out psychedelic atmospheres and hard rock grooves from Japan. Driving polyrhythmic mantra, album mix. Fuzzy grooves to tap your toes and keep the foot down. A chill-out mantra. A sprawling space drift f..

2022. Fuzzed out psychedelic atmospheres and hard rock grooves from Japan. Driving polyrhythmic mantra, album mix. Fuzzy grooves to tap your toes and keep the foot down. A chill-out mantra. A sprawling space drift f..

2022. Experimental guitar duo from Japan and Greece drawing on jazz, free improv, folk and blues.

2022. Offering 32 tracks with a running time of almost 80 minutes, here are two vinyl editions combined on one CD. 'Cut 7' comes from Japan-based couple James & Misty. For the 8th cut of the 'Buzzsaw Joint' seri..

2022. Japanese edition, limited to 100 copies only! Fuzzed out psychedelic atmospheres and hard rock grooves from Japan. Driving polyrhythmic mantra, album mix. Fuzzy grooves to tap your toes and keep the foot down...

1996. Cope is also a noted music writer, having written two highly regarded works on "Krautrock" and "Japrock" (post war to punk war Japan). The Head Heritage website is where he describes his id..

1979.  - heaven,over the rainbow / god put a rainbow,queen of the roller derby,roll away the stone,tight rope,sweet emily,alcatraz,you don't have to go,a song for you/of thee i sing/roll in my sweet baby's..

2013. 23 track CD. "Nippon Rock'n'Roll" documents the rise of Masaaki Hirao. Dubbed "The Japanese Elvis", he was one of the famed Rokabirii Sannin Otoko (Three Rockabillies), alongside singers Mi..

2014.  - fujiyama,osaka blues,rising sun,zen is when,koto song,toki's theme,the city is crying,tokyo traffic

1979.  - the birth of a band,moanin',i remember clifford,along came betty,tickletoe,happy faces,whisper not,the gypsy,a change of pace,tuxedo junction,lester leaps in,ghana,caravan,everybody's blues,cherok..

2015. The music genre known as Exotica reached worldwide success during the 1950s thanks to artists such as Yma Sumac, Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman, but its origin can be found almost 50 years earlier. The seed was ..

2009.  Repress.  Ddebut album from these swedish metal masters is available once more.  Since its release, grand magus have earned the reputation as being one of the convincingly heavy ..

2008. Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys Present “Ready For You” 2008 Release 6th CD by Janet Klein CD Information; Ready For You opens with a bang-up bunch of swingy dance numbers by a spirited singer and band th..

1970.  - frscan way southbound,women of japan,1500 years,broekn teeth song,arrow and bow,sword,bruno mindborn,albatross,march of the pams,parkbench blues,crow,siberia,run down the lane (bonus track),months..

2006.  Garage punk from bern switzerland 1986-2006 **20 years the monsters *** a 2 cd and 2 lp set of rare unreleased stuff, live recordings (not shitty ones.  .  Loud 'n powerful) f..

2006.  Biography glyder began its musical journey in 2004 at a thin lizzy tribute night in dublin.  Since then the band have released two critically acclaimed albums and two ep's.  A..

1999.  - nakagawa, isato - clarence,sasaki, hiroaki - dryuunno,komatsubar, shun - takeru,komatsubar, shun - bunmei - kai ka,nakagawa, isato - chotto tropical,ogawa, michio - shy bear's march,ogawa, michio ..

2011. The Honshu Wolves (name of a disappeared wolf from the Island of Honshu in Japan) are a galactic blues Swiss trio. Drived by Anne, her hypnotic guitar and her transcedental voice, just have a new very limited ..

2010. Soft tones from Asia celebrating the slowness of time. Shunsuke Mizuno has long worked on his own flavour and individual style of Asian music that can be understood throughout the world. Peace and space, ti..

2008.  - chroma - overture (from jazz finest),fambrough,charles - dolores carla maria,coryell,larry / live from bahia - gabriela's song,hall,jim - all blues,fambrough,charles - broski,fambrough,charles - b..

2017. In January 2001, Memphis-based keyboard player Al Gamble and his drumming younger brother Chad decided to take advantage of their years of jamming in the family rec room and form a band together. They filled o..

1989. Once some strange rumours occurred in Japan... Valensia would be a computer-generated pop star! Just like Kyoko, the animated Japanese singer. Well, may be it wasn't that strange after all. Before his hit song..

1994. Symphonic rock vocalist Lana Lane has just completed a new, stylized covers albums for release this winter entitled Gemini. It has been a tradition in Japan for Lana to release a 'specialty album' every two ye..

2007. “The music created from the depth within your soul” is how Rayn describes his debut album titled “A Creation From The Soul”. Not only to bring the soul back but also to stand for the music he has grown up with..

2011. Produced by Pat Regan, Joe Seta and Iain Ashley Hersey. Musicians : Iain Ashley Hersey - Guitars, bass, Hammond Lead Vocals: Graham Bonnet, Dante Marchi, David “Swan” Montgomery, Carsten “Lizard” Schulz,..

1983. Guitar Idol 2008 was conceived as an online worldwide talent search to find the next generation of Guitar Heroes… and boy did it deliver! Already the biggest guitar competition in history, between March 21st 2..

2014. Japan Import - Screaming Eagles,Semper Fi,Trample The Weak Hurdle The Dead,Never Stop Believing (Blues),I Still Believe,I Love My BBQ,Throttledown,Do-Rags And A. 45,Shutup&jam!,Fear Itself,Everything Matters,..

2016. Australia’s best loved banana picker (turned full-time guitar picker) 8 Ball Aitken has recently released his award winning third album, ‘REBEL WITH A CAUSE’, which is available now through MGM Distribution, r..

2016. Over the years Alan Licht (USA) and Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) have individually explored the lines that divide improvisation, composition, folk, blues and experimental music. It was inevitable that their careers ..