The voyage into the sun...

Sleep Walker released this a couple years back. Nice little album, but only 8 tracks. 8 nice tracks though. Steve's already mentioned Hajime Yoshizawa, well he plays the piano for this quartet. Album features Bembe Segue and Yukimi Nagano. Some nice jazz.

Yukimi Nagano

Right so I was going to wait a bit to get onto Yukimi Nagano, but I just heard a track she featured on for Ge-ology. That tipped me over the edge and I can't wait, gotta share it. So below is a playlist of tracks that I love so far that feature Yukimi. Seriously nice.

Jafrosax

Just recently been introduced to Yukimi Nagano (thanks for the heads up Dale)! Gonna get some of her stuff with Little Dragon up here soon enough. Anyways, after doing a little digging, I found that she'd collaborated with this group Jafrosax, a Japan based nujazz/broken beat outfit who are sometimes produced by Vikter Duplaix. Had to check them out obviously, and first track I stumbled upon was this. Instant gold I tells ya! It's called Rollin'. Enjoy

A Son of the Sun

Uyama Hiroto - A Son of the Sun, definitely worth a listen. Yeah it's that nice I don't need to say anymore!!

Yeah yeah, I'm still addicted...

But despite the fact that the artist is Japanese, it's still a nice track. Jun Seba aka Nujabes feat. Terry Callier. It's called Ordinary Joe.

Harada Ikuko [原田郁子]

So, I've been tripping over this cute little Japanese singer/musician for a little while now [no surprise there!!]. She's part of Japanese pop trio, Clammbon who are also pretty cool. Check her out playing her track Tanoshisou Kanashisou [たのしそう かなしそう] acoustic below.