Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet a full-blown concept and many

a full-blown concept and many more decidedly non-punk/ska things

It's also an album that shows just how far electronic music has come

the coined word 'Japanese jazz' was coined

Sakamoto's music has consistently exuded a profound empathy

It’s usually a fairly natural flow from live to recorded back to live

Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet a full-blown concept and manyA long lost Japanese acid folk gem, Niningashis 1974 private press debut Heavy Way shimmers with originality, deft song writing and a dream like groove. Although he was training as a pharmacist, Kazuhisa Okubo was much more interested in prescribing musical medicine. A coming of age album, Heavy Way captured a turning point in Okubos life, and Japanese society more widely as a nostalgia for the pastoral calm of the traditional life, met the