This playlist is to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of my musical journey in Japan and to honour all those generous people who have helped me and inspired me along the way. Big thanks to Angels Egg, Disc Shop Zero, Naoki Iijima and his family, Naoto Kawate, Eri Watanabe, Sweetdreams Press, Norio Fukuda, Junko Kai, Mai Mai and Machiko, Aki Tsuyuko, Jun and Kitesan, Bunshou Nishikawa, Noboyesan, Cow & Mouse, UA, Gontiti my husband ICHI and every single person who I have connected with in some good way and has made me smile, laugh, think, listen, understand and feel at home. Thank you Japan!

Playlist: 
Takeo Toyama - Ioutoshite 
Rachael Dadd remixed by Takeo Toyama - Connected to the Rock (remix) 
Gofish  - 北風と太陽 
Ytamo - Hamon
Asuna  - After Years 
Wasurerogusa - レム王子、旅に出る 
Naoto Kawate - That Cannot Be 
Aki Tsuyuko - travel alone [Fender Rhodes Vers]
Oorutaichi - Zenon / ゼノン
Kotoringo - hedgehog
Tennis Coats - Mosha Mosha Mo
Yuumbo - 失敗を抱きしめよう at 試聴室
ICHI - 一週間歌（Week）
Rachael Dadd - Archipelago 

Artwork by Aaron Sewards.

10 years in Japan by Rachael Dadd

Taken from "Butterflies" 7" released on 15th January 2014 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

Asuna - After Years

7/Dec/2013 Jinbocho, Shichoshitsu.

Ayuko Takayanagi: vocal
Koji Shibuya: piano
Yuto Ashida: euphonium
Natumi Shibuya: french horn
Daichi Minaki: ac-guitar
Chieko Yamaji: percussion
with
MC.sirafu: trumpet

母が病気になり、自分もそういう年齢になったのかという感慨と、予期せぬ事態に対する動揺が同時に押し寄せた日々のあと、大袈裟なアンセムのエンディング部が現れ、これを生かすために導入部や展開を書いた。

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/shibuya_igloo/20130507

失敗を抱きしめよう at 試聴室

from Urichipangoon 2nd album / Giant Club
ウリチパン郡 2nd 『ジャイアントクラブ』

Zenon / ゼノン

Taken from album "みみくりげ（Mimi-kurige）" released on 15th March 2012 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

わすれろ草（Wasurerogusa）-レム王子、旅に出る

Taken from 7" single "一週間歌（Week）" released on 15th October 2017 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

一週間歌（ICHI）

ICHI - 一週間歌（Week）

コトリンゴ - hedgehog

Taken from album "燐光" released on 15th January 2018 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

燐光

Gofish - 北風と太陽

Remix be Takeo Toyama artwork by Aaron Sewards

Connected to the Rock remix by Takeo Toyama

Aki Tsuyuko - travel alone [Fender Rhodes Vers]

￼For more than 15 years, Tokyo, Japan’s Tenniscoats have been keyboardist/vocalist Saya and guitarist Takashi Ueno. The duo have brought equal parts meditative intensity and whimsical humour to a series of acclaimed psychedelic albums, beginning with 2000’s The Theme Of Tenniscoats.
But Tenniscoats have rarely released music without collaborating with others. Most famously, they teamed up with Scottish indie pop legends The Pastels in 2009 for the wonderful Two Sunsets album on Domino Records.
They also worked with Swedish group Tape for 2007’s Tan Tan Therapy and followup Papa’s Ear (released in January this year), as well as US outsider pop icon Jad Fair for 2011’s Enjoy Your Life. Saya has also released an album with Satomi Matsuzaki from Deerhoof under the name One One, while Ueno and Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier occasion- ally perform live as Can Can. In fact, 2011 album Tokinouta is one of the few releases attributable to Tenniscoats alone.
New album All Aboard! continues the band’s collaborative tradition. Tenniscoats have joined forces with legendary Japanese drummer Ikuro Takahashi, active since the mid-70s and revered for his work with experimental and psych-folk icons like High Rise, Fushitsusha, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni Te and Che Shizu.
Takahashi first played with Tenniscoats a decade ago when they visited his hometown Sapporo, the snowed-in capital of Japan’s icy north island Hokkaido. So in 2005, when they began to record with Australian expat Richard Horner in his Sapporo studio Black Snow- flake Sound, they naturally asked Takahashi to join them.
The result, pieced together over years of annual visits to Sapporo, is an album that presents Tenniscoats at their most relaxed and most compelling. Nominally their “rock” record, if only because they often perform drummerless, All Aboard! is warm, loose and sprawling, while retaining those hypnotic Tenniscoats melodies.
It is their first album for Chapter Music since concert opus Live Wan- derus in 2005. The band have toured Australia numerous times since then, playing the Perth and Brisbane Festivals in 2009 and most recently touring with Deerhoof in 2010.

Tenniscoats
All Aboard!
Chapter Music CD
Cat#: CH89
Release Date: 6 July 2012

Label contact: guy@chaptermusic.com.au
www.chaptermusic.com.au

10 years in Japan by Rachael Dadd

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