Jintana & Emeralds delivers yet another dose of dreamy, Hawaiian exotica with Mirage
Jintana & Emeralds plays '50s inspired dreamy music, that takes us right back to the heydays of Exotica, with its tropical, Hawaiian flavor and steel guitar sound. The band, featuring…
FEMM: Neon Twilight / Countdown – two new songs and videos from Japan’s strangest pop duo
FEMM, a duo that claims that they are "mannequins" is one of the most interesting things that showed up in Japan's pop music scene in the last few years and…
Jumbled rock & diversity – an interview with Tricot (2016.03)
Tricot, the Japanese all-girl trio that mixes complex, irregular rhythms with a soft, pop sound came back to Europe in early 2016, so I did an email interview with them…
Haruka interview (2014.09)
The independent Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist Haruka was playing her first ever overseas show in Budapest at Mondocon (the local anime & pop culture convention) and before the concert I…