Japanese media findings #1 - Tadaima. by Akiko Yano (album)
I found this album while browsing subgenres of shibuya-kei and somehow stumbled upon the genre of techno kayou. I've never heard of it before until listening to this album and it seems to be thanks to the fact that it's practically a dead genre.
Techno kayou is a subgenre of kayoukyoku (showa era pop music) as well as idol kayou, which is basically the predecessor to J-pop.
Giving this album a listen filled me with inspiration as well as a feeling of melancholy. A reminder that this already small genre pretty much doesn't exist anymore and this, if not preserved, would go under eventually.
So I just wanted to spread the word of my finding and recommend/introduce this wonderfully surreal and upbeat album to at least a few of you people on here.
