Izumi Kobayashi & Flying Mimi Band
Sea Flight

✺ Pressed on clear sky blue vinyl.✺ Housed in a gatefold jacket.✺ Extensive liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa (Universounds/Deep Jazz Reality) in Japanese and English translation.✺ Originally released in 1981.Since the late 1960s, jazz drummer Takeo Moriyama has been a dominant force in the free jazz scene, initially with the Yosuke Yamashita Trio, and more recently, collaborating with the KYOTO JAZZ SEXTET, earning respect from past to present. Recorded in 1980 with his quartet featuring Fumio Itabashi, this album is renowned for being the first to include the emotionally rich Japanese masterpiece "Watarase". Other highlights include the spirited "Exchange" and the beautifully poignant "Goodbye". Each track is a standout, offering a grand-scale performance where tranquility and movement organically intertwine, making it one of the top albums in the history of Japanese jazz.

Loveface arrive with their De Mix series of releases, revving their Delorean up, ready to go back to a 1980's NYC dancefloor!Two classic vocals given the electro boogie treatment, transporting them back to a pre house dance floor...Early support from Groove Armada, Dr Packer, Horse Meat Disco, Graeme Park, Hi Fi Sean, Andy Smith, Nude Disco & Mighty Mouse, Jimpster, Ben Davis, Hot Toddy, Gino Grasso, Mufti, Alan Dixon,

✺ Originally released in 1978✺ Pressed on light green vinyl.✺ Cut from the original master tapes.Yoichi Takizawa's revered album "Leonids No Kanata Ni," celebrated as a mystical masterpiece, is now hitting the shelves in a fresh vinyl reissue !This album, hailed as a pinnacle of city pop music, showcases the genius of Hiroshi Sato's arrangements and Yoichi Takizawa's melodic prowess. The roster of participating musicians includes luminaries such as Shuichi Murakami, Tatsuo Hayashi, Jun Aoyama on drums, alongside Shigeru Suzuki, Tsunehide Matsuki, Masaki Matsubara, Yuji Toriyama on guitar, Hiroshi Sato on keyboards, Naoya Matsuoka on acoustic piano, Kenji Takamizu, Hiroki Ito on bass, and others.This analog reissue has been meticulously crafted from the original master tapes, utilizing high-spec sound data digitally converted to 96KHz/24bit. Manufactured at the Sony Music factory in Japan, the vinyl is pressed in a striking transparent yellow-green hue.

Eight years after the critically acclaimed Alien Cartoon, Senegalese producer IBAAKU returns with a new project an alchemy of jazz, electronic sounds and Casamance music in the tradition of Touré Kunda and Xalam in their day.The album is also accompanied by a short filma manifesto of resilience in the face of the sound poet's personal history but also a questioning of the way in which technologies technologies and cultures come together to reinitialize our imaginary.Identity: The meeting point of electronics, jazz and the musical tradition of Casamance.The realization of this new project is associated with a research approach to traditional Casamance rhythms, vocals and instruments.A reference to Spiritual Jazz is present, through stories and approaches ; while the skeleton of IBAAKU's tracks remains experimental,with strong influences from the emerging african club scene.JOOLA JAZZ de IBAAKU

✺ Originally released in 1988.✺ Pressed on black double vinyl.✺ First ever vinyl release !This marks DJ CHINTAM's (BLOW UP) pick, renowned for 'Japanese Mono A to Z,' unveiling Junko Ohashi's 14th album in analog format for the first time, from her days with Epic Records.Junko Ohashi's 14th album, released under Epic Records, now gets its first analog release!Featuring lyrics penned by Machiko Ryu, music composed by Ken Sato, and arrangements by Nobuyuki Shimizu, Akira Inoue, and Satoshi Nakamura.

A new album by legendary Estonian pianist Tõnu Naissoo, accompanied by his new group Tõnu Naissoo Electric Trio !Accompanied by his synthesizers and two of the best Estonian jazz musicians, bassist Mihkel Mälgand and drummer Ahto Abner, Tõnu Naissoo began recording his album “Different Directions” in the autumn of 2019 at the legendary Linnahall studio that he had booked for that purpose several years in advance. The new tracks he composed for the album flow from jazz-rock to smooth jazz, lingering briefly on the frequency of free jazz.The popular Estonian jazz pianist Tõnu Naissoo was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1951. His father Uno Naissoo was a renowned composer and an organizer of jazz festivals, who encouraged Tõnu to take an interest in jazz and improvisation. By the age of 15 he had already begun participating in local jazz orchestra. He performed first time with his trio and presented his jazz music compositions at the international Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967 in Tallinn. The next year he was given an opportunity to record his own album. Since then he has dedicated himself to jazz music and recorded around 30 albums that have been released in Estonia, Japan and Russia. Most of his earliest recordings have been reissued in recent years.“Different Directions” feels like Tõnu Naissoo’s ’missing piece’ album from the 1980s. It will be a worthy addition to Tõnu Naissoo’s and Frotee’s discography.