Not sure if they count since it’s not in Japanese, but they’re from Japan.
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Toconoma:
Kamisama Kazoku:
Lucie,Too:
タルトタタン:
Shishamo:
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JRap. Brings me back.
Can’t have a Japanese music thread without the queens of hard rock renaissance, the 5, the only… BAND-MAID.
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Aimer
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Here’s one I came across on a kenjutsu dojo’s website once - good music for physical training (or war preparations, as the case may be):
Also, the traditional song “Sakura Sakura”, here performed on the koto:
First time I heard it was in vocals-only version in this 3D motion capture tech demo called “Kara”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pF56-ZYkY
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Technically this is chinese, but its a cool song anyway.
Chang Jing - The Breath
One of my favorite songs to play on bass. Wish i could find that album version though. Oh well
Tokyo Jihen - Sounan
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It’s been awhile.
Anri - Heaven Beach
Junko Ohashi - Magical
Miki Matsubara - Light Mellow
Tomoko Aran - Fuyukukan
Yumi Matsutoya - Hikō-Ki Gumo
Nice thread! Is anime music excluded, just checking before I weeb it up lol.
Speaking of city pop, I’ve been digging the compilation Light In The Attic Records just put out. This track in particular has been on repeat:
Back with some more great Japanese Music
Hyakkei - Okurimono
Folk Muk - In And Yo
Hideaki Tokunaga - Vocalist 2 (No link)
Easily my favorite symphonic japanese band
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One of my favorites right now
Indie Rock
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ELM - 1 (discog link)
KUKIKODAN - Kodomo (YouTube link)
Jizue - gallery (YouTube link)
ELFENSJoN - ASH OF ROUGE (Bandcamp)
Edit: Decided to upload KUKIKODAN - Kodomo on YouTube myself.
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I listened to this a couple months ago. Pretty good.
Semi fictional artist from one of my favorite movies.
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just gonna drop this absolute classic of a banger
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra is probably my favorite band of all time, and they’ve built up quite a catalogue. I absolutely adore their cover of the theme from Brazil: https://youtu.be/Jw9Av1BSefQ
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Lately in terms of Japanese music, Susumu Hirasawa never fails to impress me with his unique style of music and the first time I discovered his music when Berserk 1997 was shown to me by a friend and yes I love the music and the series overall because of that. if John Williams is to Star Wars, then Susumu Hirasawa is to Berserk.
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