村岡実 Minoru Muraoka - Bamboo Artist_Yen Town Band Dawn Of Midi drummer Qasim

Dawn Of Midi drummer Qasim Naqvi steps up to Erased Tapes with his debut LP Teenages

It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa´s night-clubs

The Kimagure Orange Road anime series was broadcast in Japan in 1987 (and around the world) in countries such as Australia

including masterpieces such as “Honey Moon”

村岡実 Minoru Muraoka - Bamboo Artist_Yen Town Band Dawn Of Midi drummer QasimJapanese jazz breakbeat, folkloric mega rarity as hallowed the likes of DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Egon and co. Uniquely combines traditional Japanese instrumentation with Western jazz influences. Minoru Muraoka plays shakuhachi a traditional bamboo Japanese flute joined by his band members accompanying him on the koto (strings) and tsutsumi (drum) amongst others, to create their Shakuhachi Jazz sound.