{"title":"Forest Jams","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sergio-maria-saguaro-rain-guitar","title":"Sergio Maria Saguaro – Rain Guitar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLegendary Hiroaki Sugawara in the form of Sergio Maria Saguaro presents Rain Guitar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep into paradise alone to deeply savor an exotic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I first learned about this album thanks to GOKA, who built the sound system for my record shop, CELLAR RECORDS. Around 2019, it was praised by some connoisseurs, but it’s different from the so-called “popular ambient” sound that was in vogue at the time. This work is a Japanese obscure pop album created in 2002 by Hiroaki Sugawara, who goes by the name “Sergio Maria Saguaro,” mixing all types of exotic moods and completed in a secluded space. In particular, A-2 “Window with a Dog” and B-5 “Washing Machine” are truly a sonic paradise. When you put this record on your shelf, be sure to place it next to Tatsuhiko Asano’s excellent soundtrack “Following in the Footsteps of Doshin,” which was happily reissued in 2022, or Steve Hiett’s “Down On The Road By The Beach.”” -浜公氣 (Cellar Records)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This sophisticated sound file paints natural landscapes, depicting rich and abundant scenes while floating through them, creating a world that is as beautiful as a kaleidoscope, appearing in the soundscape in a way that is always gentle, natural, and organic. It makes extensive use of four types of stringed instruments, modulators, flutes, and ethnic instruments, possessing a refined sense of elegant ambiance.”  -Walearic \/ Gokaine Sound Research Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n  \u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/5036\/6874\/files\/A2-Dog-In-The-Window.mp3?v=1768337941\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n  \u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/5036\/6874\/files\/A1-Rain-Clouds-Looked-Like-The-Face-Of-A-Smiling-Dog.mp3?v=1768337944\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e \u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n  \u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/5036\/6874\/files\/B3-Water-Front.mp3?v=1768337944\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e \u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n  \u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/5036\/6874\/files\/A2-Dog-In-The-Window.mp3?v=1768337941\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forest Jams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009346977946,"sku":null,"price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0471\/5036\/6874\/files\/fjlp-07jacket.png?v=1768337094"},{"product_id":"chito-kawachi-チトチック-クラクラ-chitotihc-kula-kura","title":"Chito Kawachi – チトチック\/クラクラ (CHITOTIHC\/KULA-kura)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat makes CHITOTIHC\/KULA-kura so fascinating is that, in some weird way, it’s a meeting of minds and musical language of disparate artists at the forefront of a new kind of groove. There might be no “L” in the Japanese language but that doesn’t stop it from trying to find a working substitute. Similarly, Chito enlisted members from his Asiabeat and East Pulse, others from Mu-Project, K2, and Adi, and brought in Haruomi Hosono to play mercurial bass. In the great expanse of experimental Japanese-made pop music all of them might have gone in “out-there” in separate directions but on this record it was Chito who pointed their focus all on the same track.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Bayou” presents this floating idea of dance music with beats and rhythms that hover among the ethereal. Other like “Scribble Dance” use Harry’s acid bass lines to dig cavernous grooves that only come up for air via adrenaline-fueled jumps by Haruo Kubota’s quite Adrian Belew-esque guitar lines. 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It’s this very liquid music that keeps you on your toes on tracks like “Astral Lamp”. Tracks like “Jagg-chagg” and “Filament” present a fourth world music bifurcated in exponential parts by the glitch of newer, modern, electronic modalities, intersected by expressions by differing voices. 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