Tokyo's Coolest Sound

This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these pages. Tune in at the times below at https://lafaceb.live.

"Tokyo's Coolest Sound" (vol.36) was aired at https://lafaceb.live on February 16 from 20:30 (EST = Montréal/New York).
* Japan time: February 17, 2023 from 10:30 a.m.

This episode will not be archived as-is. Some replays are expected to be aired in the following weeks, between Thursday noon and Friday noon (EST).

Listen to the Spotify playlist of some of the songs played (some replaced according to Spotify availability), or scroll down this page to find music videos and individual songs, and also listen to the narration.

Below is the full tracklist with liner notes, and narration parts that you can listen to.

1. Dai Nakamura "FUYUMACHI" (2023)

Dai Nakamura, aka NUBACK, has just released a new solo album under his own name. Titled "Room, Sea and Me", the bedroom acoustic album contains 8 songs including the two from recent single release "About Hunger / Color Field". So far the album can be found at Bandcamp, and it is expected to become available on download/streaming platforms this month.

🎙 Listen to Narration I
Presenting: Dai Nakamura, Ayane Yamazaki

2. Ayane Yamazaki "TRANSPARENT HEART (VIP Mix)" (2022)

"Transparent Heart" is a song that appeared on the latest album of Ayane Yamazaki, titled "The Highway of Truth" (2022) (Spotify, , YouTube Music). This new mix was recently released digitally (Spotify, , YouTube Music).

In January, another track titled "Phase (Extended Version)" (Spotify, , YouTube Music) was also released digitally, while an alternate Single Edition of it was made available as NFT via Italian platform Brots. The song "Phase" itself first appeared on mini-album "Ribbon" (2021) (Spotify, , YouTube Music) which was also released last year on vinyl.

3. Coastlines "Tenderly" (2022)

Next is a song by instrumental unit Coastlines, formed of DJ/producer Masanori Ikeda (previously known as Mansfield) and keyboardist Kaneko Takumi (of cro-magnon). "Tenderly" is the opening track of their 2nd album "Coastlines 2" (Bandcamp, Spotify, , YouTube Music) which was released last year.

A 2LP release of the album on UK label Be With Records is expected for March 2023. Pre-orders can be made at the label, Juno (UK), etc.

🎙 Listen to Narration II
Presenting: Coastlines, Haruna Yusa

4. Haruna Yusa "everything, everything, everything" (2022)
(Japanese title: 遊佐春菜 「everything, everything, everything」)

Haruna Yusa (Twitter, Instagram), an artist who is also a member of bands Kowarekake no Tape Recorder and Have a Nice Day!, has released last year an album titled "Another Story Of Dystopia Romance" (Spotify, , YouTube Music) on which she does her own takes of songs by Have a Nice Day!

The song "everything, everything, everything" was also released on 7" last October, and can be found at Jet Set, Amazon, HMV, etc.

The album is available as a 2-CD package, of which the 2nd CD consists of remixes of each song in reverse order. All can also be found digitally, and on label KiliKiliVilla's Bandcamp.

5. Ai Kamano "kiri to suna" (2022)
(Japanese title: 鎌野愛 「霧と砂」)

Singer-songwriter Ai Kamano released near the end of last year a new album titled "HUMAN" (Spotify, , YouTube Music), of which the opening song is "kiri to suna". This is her 2nd full-length album, the follow-up to "muonk" (2019) (Spotify, , YouTube Music).

A digest of the album can be heard on YouTube.

🎙 Listen to Narration III
Presenting: Ai Kamano, ○△□

6. ○△□ (Marusankakushikaku) "MANGEKYO" (2020)

○△□ (read "Maru-sankaku-shikaku") is a piano trio led by singer-songwriter Mira Parameter with bassist Mutō Masataka (of band Cherry's) and drummer Yu-ki Nakamura, and also featuring violinist Akie Doi. After Mira Parameter released album "Reborn" (2017) (Spotify, , YouTube Music) and single "Phantasmagoria" (2019) (Spotify, ), this album as ○△□ titled "Hoshi Ga Furu" (Spotify, , YouTube Music) contains some new versions of songs from "Reborn" rearranged in a jazzy style, such as this song titled "Mangekyo" (the Japanese word for "kaleidoscope").

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