Various - City Music Tokyo Available On:2LP We increasingly hear from musicians

We increasingly hear from musicians that music should be an escape these days - that there’s enough suffering in the world

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Play it again

" This approach is on full display throughout their new album Education & Recreation

Various - City Music Tokyo Available On:2LP We increasingly hear from musiciansThere is so much to discover, and love, about Japanese pop music, and in particular the genre known as City Pop, with elements of disco, R&B, funk, AOR and soul released in the 1970s and 1980s. There were also traces of the genre in the 1990s and it is increasingly found in todays pop music, both stylistically and through sampling, with artists like The Weeknd, Benny Sings and Friday Night Plans opening up the sound to a whole new generation of music