Japan Sound Portrait

Featuring - sounds collected on our Japan Sound Portrait tour of Kyushu in Spring 2015: a countryside level crossing; the engine of Kazuhisa-san's 1983 Jetta; a performance of Karma Chameleon by Michiko-san at the Lanka school in Kagoshima; Tomo-san's Affinity Lo-Pro bike. - recordings on the island of Yakushima sent to us by Andy Gilham of the band Echaskech http://www.echaskech.co.uk/ - recordings of the Shounai dialect, sent in by Yoshiharu Takui https://cis-sound.blogspot.co.uk/ - recordings of an afternoon in Akihabara, sent to us by Laurent Fintoni http://www.laurentfintoni.com/ Interspersed with selections from the piece Juel Suite by shinekosei: Neil Cantwell & Koichi Yuasa https://shinekosei.bandcamp.com/