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Photographer Dennis Morris Looks Back on the Music Scene and the Relationship with His Departed Friend Lee Perry
Photographer Dennis Morris, who published a book of his photographs of Lee Perry, who passed away last year, looks back on his career and the music scene across the age. -
時音 Vol.17 “Walking, looking, shooting. That’s it” Photographer Daido Moriyama Talks about the Record and Photography
Daido Moriyama calls his personal photography magazine Record his lifework and lifeline. We interviewed Daido Moriyama himself about the meaning of the magazine and his photographs. -
“You Can Drink but Don’t Get Drunk” Sake Brewery Tour Manga Series: Italian Manga Artist Peppe’s Encounter With Japanese Culture Vol.3
Peppe introduces his first encounter with Japanese culture through his manga. The third installment is on his trip to a Japanese sake brewery in Okutama, Tokyo. -
Always Punk and New Wave: Kan Takagi Reveals the Reality of Tokyo Pop Culture
Kan Takagi, a leading figure of Japanese club culture since the 1980s when all kinds of music crossed over, talks about the scene as he recalls those days. -
Report on BRIAN ENO AMBIENT KYOTO, an Exhibition of Sound and Light by Brian Eno
Brian Eno’s exhibition BRIAN ENO AMBIENT KYOTO is currently being held at the former Welfare Center of Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank. -
The Possibilities of the World’s First Android and Music Laboratory in Osaka — “Massive Life Flow; Inside the Mind of Keiichiro Shibuya” Part 6
In the sixth installment, we report on the Android and Music Science Laboratory opening at the Art Science Department, Osaka University of Arts, where Keiichiro Shibuya recently started working as a visiting professor. -
The Critical Point of Language in Max Cooper’s New Sounds and Videos
The interview explores Max Cooper’s latest sound expressions in his new album Unspoken Words, which was inspired by a line from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. -
XL Middleton, a leading figure in the LA funk scene, speaks about his connection to Japanese city pop
An integral part of the LA funk scene, XL Middleton spoke about the background of his latest work which features Japanese city pop samples, his attraction to city pop and its similarities to G-funk, and Salt Box Records which is a record store he owns. -
The world premiere of Keiichiro Shibuya’s android opera, “MIRROR,” at Expo 2020 Dubai — “Massive Life Flow; Inside the Mind of Keiichiro Shibuya” Part 5
In the fifth installment of this series, we report on “MIRROR,” an android opera shown in Dubai in March of this year. -
Japanese Synthpop Utahime Mioko Yamaguchi: Up-and-Coming U.S. Journalist Unravels Yamaguchi’s ’80s Trilogy and Latest Work
Shy Thompson, an up-and-coming American journalist who writes for Pitchfork and Bandcamp Daily, unravels Mioko Yamaguchi’s ’80s masterpiece of Japanese synthpop and her latest work “FAIRYTHM.”