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How Happy End and Haruomi Hosono’s Music Prompted Taiwanese Manga Artist Gao Yan’s Stories
We asked Taiwanese manga artist/illustrator Gao Yan about her first serialized work, The Song About Green – Gather the Wind, which was published as a book in May. She spoke on the backstory of her work and her first encounters with Japanese culture. -
Why Yuma Abe is making music on his own: A closer look at the creation of his relaxed and authentic sonic universe
Yuma Abe, the frontman of Never Young Beach, has released his first solo album. Yusuke Monma, whose book Haruomi Hosono to Karera no Jidai was published last December, digs deeper into the creation and sonic universe of Abe’s new album, which features guitar by Devendra Banhart and mixing by Haruomi Hosono.