Sounds From Japan

The conceptual soundtrack to one of Studio Ghibli's most beloved films on vinyl for the 1st time! Princess Mononoke was written and directed by Hay...

Demon City Shinjuku was an Original Video Animation originally released in Japan in 1988. It was one of the first commercially available anime film...

"Yasushi Yamashita and Makoto Inoue created what they describe as ‘a special place where the kingdom of summer vacation never ended.’ Playful and m...

Kiki’s Delivery Service is a 1989 film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was Miyazaki’s directorial debut, and this image album...

Finally reissued! The Mystery Kindaichi Band's "imaginary" soundtrack for The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke gets its first ever official release o...

Good Weather! Good Sounds! Summer Breeze is Piper’s second album, originally released in 1983 on Yupiteru. Inspired by the sounds of Masayoshi Taka...

Kiki’s Delivery Service is a 1989 animated film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. An adaptation of a 1985 novel, the film tells th...

Porco Rosso is a 1992 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The plot follows an italian WWI fighter pilot that currently works as a...

Often referred to as "the J-Dilla of Japan," the love for Jun Seba aka Nujabes's brand of hip-hop continues to grow well after his untimely death i...

Porco Rosso is one of the more obscure films by Hayao Miyazaki, based on a watercolor comic by the man himself and originally commissioned as an in...

Geinoh Yamashirogumi is a one-of-a-kind musical collective uniting hundreds of people from all walks of life - doctors, engineers, office works, bu...

Fumio Miyashita is a musician, music therapist, and innovator of Healing Music in Japan. His musical career began in 1966, leading to him forming t...

black vinyl 2LP pressing, limited edition Brave Wave 2018

"Like the moment of stillness, after the wind passes through the garden, when the rain stops for a brief second..." Satoshi Ashikawa's minimal ambi...

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s landmark debut album, recorded in 1977-78 shortly after co-founding Yellow Magic Orchestra with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Taka...

Public art has a long history in Japan, from the giant bronze Buddhas in Kamakura and Nara, to the gigantic avant-garde sculptures of Taro Okamoto,...

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"I Never Tried To Be A Pioneer." Haruomi Hosono has had a significant influence over Japan's musical landscape for the past four decades (even if h...

"I hope to see you." Originally released in 1977, Iroha Ni Konpeitou found Akiko Yano at a creative peak, and arguably at her funkiest. Here the ch...

Shakuhachi Jazz. Minoru Muraoka's fabled 1970 cross-cultural J-jazz masterpiece gets the official reissue treatment, courtesy of Mr. Bongo. For the...

Long out-of-print 1979 Japanese fusion excursion from Haruomi Hosono with Masataka Matsutoya (Seaside Lovers, Tin Pan Alley) and accomplished sessi...

"The sun's in her hair, the warmth of the air, on a summer day..." Pacific is the cumulative effort of a who’s-who of Japanese musicians, notably f...

One of Ghibli's most beloved films. For fans of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro hardly needs an introduction. The simple tale of two ...

The origins of Nausicaa's sound! Legendary Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi created the music found on this Image Album for Nausicaa Of The Valley O...