Various - WAMONO A to Z Vol. I - Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980 (Selected by DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite & Chintam)Dig right now into the Wamono sound the cream of the Japanese funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan! Fully licensed Nippon Columbia and Victor Japan masters available for the first time outside of Japan, featuring Akira Ishikawa, Jiro Inagaki, Chikara Ueda, Kifu Misuhashi, Toshiko Yonekawa and more! Tracks selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa

post-punk & psychedelic electro soul

The songs find the resonance in the hum of life

with an  additional year or two behind themselves

LP edition is housed in a gatefold sleeve with spot gloss to the cover

Mitsuru Sawamura

and the whole label history boils down to their existence

It was recorded with producer Ian Button and features Dave Tattersall (Wave Pictures) playing guitar and Andy Lewis (Spearmint

or produce ten Top 40 hits around the globe

At the 1991 Reading Festival

Then on to Ronnie Scott‰۪s in Gerrard Street around 11 to see the band warming up

who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album Modern Meta Physic

on heavyweight double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve