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As I remember it Atkins does not interview Satoh or Togashi, but he does discuss their work at length - specifically in the context of the attempt to fuse jazz with traditional Japanese music and aesthetics of the 70s and later. Satoh's Randooga project and Togashi's solo work are given due recognition. Togashi's Spiritual Nature and Song For Myself have just been re-released on East Wind, by the way.

Some of Satoh's less jazz-oriented work is discussed by post-punk British rocker Julian Cope in his "Japrock Sampler" book, which is mainly about early 70s rock, but also covers the 1960s exploits of Japanese avant gardeists , such as Yoko's first husband and John Cage pal, Toshi Ichiyanagi. It's a good read.

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Some of Satoh's less jazz-oriented work is discussed by post-punk British rocker Julian Cope in his "Japrock Sampler" book, which is mainly about early 70s rock, but also covers the 1960s exploits of Japanese avant gardeists , such as Yoko's first husband and John Cage pal, Toshi Ichiyanagi. It's a good read.

Yeah, I read the book. I was behind Cope's Krautrocksampler but only found his Japrocksampler, which I found also very interesting, centering around the early 60s pop pioneers and early 70s rockers.

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In July 2019, a small series (I think eight titles) of Koji Wakamatsu soundtracks were reissued by Solid for 1000¥ each. They were only on sale for two months. (CD Japan lists them all as "sold out," but a few titles can still be found on the internet.) My question is: Did anyone here pick up any titles from this extremely short-lived reissue series? One review on HMV Japan says that they're overly compressed, which, if true, would be a shame. The series (for the obi) looked like this:

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25 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Just in case anyone is interested, NTS, which is a London based online radio station, is doing a Japanese Jazz Week this week.

https://www.nts.live/incoming/japanese-jazz-week

I haven't listened to it yet, but NTS normally does gold shows.

Can any of these be streamed after the fact? -- or do you have to catch them live on the "day of", or else they're gone?

Seems to play from 3pm-5pm EST -- but I'm not sure if that's actually 3pm-5pm EDT (or if it really is EST, and therefore maybe it plays an hour earlier or later, depending on how that works -- I can't get my brain to figure that out quite yet this morning).  If I could stream it all later, I'd love to hear all these programs.

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7 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Can any of these be streamed after the fact? -- or do you have to catch them live on the "day of", or else they're gone?

Seems to play from 3pm-5pm EST -- but I'm not sure if that's actually 3pm-5pm EDT (or if it really is EST, and therefore maybe it plays an hour earlier or later, depending on how that works -- I can't get my brain to figure that out quite yet this morning).  If I could stream it all later, I'd love to hear all these programs.

I think they are all available after the fact from the website. 

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