Piano, Shamisen, and Electronic Sounds Since debuting with her 1976 album JAPANESE GIRL, Yano Akiko has been a trailblazer in ...

This time, bask in the resonances of manifold musician Josh Johnson; longtime Japanese folk-music treasure Sachiko Kanenobu; and Philadelphia's Hour, an act that will supply its textured sounds ...

Japanese traditional music inspired and emboldened him, he said, because it was not preoccupied with the usual definitions of music as “temporal art,” or what he called “divisions,” such ...

When Akari Mochizuki was just 3 years old, she started singing enka (a variety of traditional Japanese music which often takes the form of sentimental ballads). Akari studied drama in Cambridge ...

From psychedelic Japanese folk music to industrial post-rock techno, Expo music festival Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) has proven once again it’s a fertile spot for discovering exciting new music ...