Friday, May 22, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Chasing Light
After their debut MYT crashed the German Jazz Awards shortlist, Moses Yoofee Trio rip back with their wilder follow-up. The trio holed up in their Neukölln rehearsal room for a week-long jam and DIY-recorded these six new tracks — jazz and hip-hop improvisation locked into heavy Afro rhythms, broken beats, and psychedelic synth layers. Raw live energy pressed straight to wax.
Entrance Music
First heard in January and immediately ordered — then promptly sold out, with a long wait for repress. The package finally arrived after a transcontinental detour (50 copies of Thee Marloes' new record showed up by mistake first). Okonski's second album on Colemine, anchored on solo piano compositions that move between anticipation, contemplation, and calm. Only 3 copies of the orange swirl repress in stock.
We Now Create
A century-defining summit by four of Japanese free jazz's most pivotal figures. Masayuki Takayanagi's masterful feedback-guitar pyrotechnics; Mototeru Takagi's dynamic tenor sax and mysterious cornstalk-pipe flute; Motoharu Yoshizawa's seamless double bass resonance; Togashi himself bringing both meticulous architecture and shattering force on the kit. Four currents colliding across time. The 2023 reissue had spiked in price; the new "Spin This Now!" pressing is finally back at a sensible price point.
尺八 & Bossa Nova Vol.2 (ボサ・ノヴァ日本民謡集)
The 1971 follow-up to Bossa Nova Japanese Folk Songs — shakuhachi master Hozan Yamamoto reunites with guitarist Shungo Sawada's quintet for a second volume of shakuhachi-meets-bossa. An ambitious early-career work that braids Japanese folk, jazz, and bossa nova together: the lyrical "Nikkō Wagakuodori," a jazz-rock rendition of "Sōran Bushi," and the joyful flute interplay with Ken Muraoka on "Gujō Bushi." Selection every bit as strong as the first volume.
尺八 & Bossa Nova (ボサ・ノヴァ日本民謡集)
A spellbinding fusion of shakuhachi and bossa nova — Hozan Yamamoto with Shungo Sawada's quintet, recorded in 1969 and finally reissued worldwide on vinyl for the first time. Yamamoto drew international notice playing Newport Jazz Festival with Sharps & Flats; backing here comes from a who's-who of Japanese jazz including Ken Muraoka, Akira Tokuyama, Yoshio Ikeda, and Motohiko Hino. Japanese folk and jazz are natural partners — the melancholy of "Sado Okesa" wrapped in Yamamoto's antique-toned shakuhachi and bossa arrangements feels both ancient and effortlessly fresh.
Honey Bones
A 10th-anniversary zoetrope picture-disc reissue of Dope Lemon's Honey Bones. Released in 2016, the album was Angus Stone's debut under the Dope Lemon moniker and essentially codified a new strain of Australian psychedelia — sun-bleached, road-trip-shaped music that lingers. More mood-piece than record.
Heavy Way
A 1974 Japanese private-press acid-folk holy grail unearthed last year — Niningashi's one and only record. Time Capsule digs up Kazuhisa Okubo's self-released gem with cover art hand-drawn by the brothers themselves, capturing a snapshot of urban Japan alongside a quiet longing for traditional rural life. Sounds as close-to-the-everyday as the cover looks. Originals trade at £1,500-plus; in the Japanese psych-folk scene of the era, they wove their own experience together with American and Japanese soul into a distinctly Japanese-flavored funk.
酒醉的探戈
Teresa Teng's Drunken Tango (酒醉的探戈) reissued as a Japanese 100% Pure double LP — 1,000 copies, cut at 45rpm, with lyrics and full liner notes included. The tracklist spans Teng staples like the title track, "愛人," and "我只在乎你 (時の流れに身をまかせ)" — Mandarin reworkings of her Japanese hits, here paired with their original Japanese titles in the notes.
This Is The One
Hikaru Utada's English-language Island Def Jam release, freshly remastered and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. Limited preorder.
Exodus
Hikaru Utada's first English-language album on Island Def Jam, remixed and pressed to vinyl as a 2LP for the very first time. Limited preorder.
Wewantsounds unearths a cult jazz holy grail — saxophonist Hadley Caliman's 1971 album, whose original pressing has long traded at stratospheric prices on the secondhand market. First-ever reissue, fifty-plus years on. Caliman's thick saxophone tone caught the ear of Santana and Grateful Dead; most of these tracks are written and arranged by Todd Cochran (aka Bayeté), fresh off Bobby Hutcherson's Head On, who injects a vast cosmic-psychedelic sweep into Caliman's saxophone and flute explorations. Gatefold restored with rare studio session photos and liner notes by Cochran himself.