Tokyo's Coolest Sound

Here's another compilation of the excellent "City Music Tokyo" series selected by Cunimondo Takiguchi, leader of city pop band Ryusenkei. The selection this time focuses on Sony's repertory (the 2nd of these, following "City Music Tokyo invitation"). Some of the songs are rare, unavailable digitally or for the first time on CD.

Official release page

There are more city pop releases from Sony on the same day: another compilation titled "City Pop Story ~ Urban & Ocean" (selected by Kurimoto Hitoshi), and 8 re-issues. Find all details on this page.

Previous releases of the "City Music Tokyo" series are: "City Music Tokyo invitation", "City Music Tokyo junction" (Tower Records exclusive CD) and its vinyl edition (see City Pop on Vinyl 2022), "City Music Tokyo tremolo" (Tower Records exclusive CD), and "City Music Tokyo signal". A vinyl edition of "City Music Tokyo tremolo" will be released for Record Store Day on April 22, 2023.

Various Artists "City Music Tokyo parallelism"

(Title / Artist)
1. MIND CIRCUS / Nakatani Miki
2. 2dome no First Love / Pas De Chat
3. chijō 9m no uchū / Satō Seiko
4. ame yo yasashiku / GWINKO
5. COOL WATER / Hamamoto Sara
6. Like A Rainbow / MINNIE
7. Melty / Kawaguchi Masayo
8. tO→Kio / kemono
9. amai kioku / Alessandra Mussolini
10. aa mu mujō / Taniguchi Masahiro
11. P.J. / MELON
12. Samarkand ōdōri / SUSAN
13. kagami no naka no 10gatsu / Koike Tamao
14. dōbutsuen no wani Nobody in town / Togawa Kyōko
15. Paralellism / Koshi Miharu
16. tsuki to yūei / RAMJA

Sony Music MHCL-3016
Out 3/22, ¥2200 (excl. 10% tax)
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