Makoto Kubota & the Sunset Gang - Sunset Gang LPWewantsounds continue its Makoto Kubota retrospective with the reissue of Sunset Gang recorded in 1973 for Showboat. The album, co produced by Kinji Yoshino (Haruomi Hosono, Akiko Yano, Sachiko Kanenobu) and featuring Hosono, Minako Yoshida and Taeko Ohnuki, was released as Kubota had just recorded his classic first solo album, Machibouke. It marks the start of the group's unique sound mixing Japanese music with R&B, blues and New Orleans influences,

The music from the play is recorded so that it can be listened to as a suite

created with Shigeaki Saegusa as the composer and arranger

This is a wonderful LP from Sato

Born Under A Bad Sign

A unique compilation featuring all Robotnick's electro anthems originally released on Fuzz Dance label

Wewantsounds continues their Akiko Yano reissue program with the release of Japanese Girl

but this whole LP is solid front to back

or a chance to reaquaint yourself with some of your favorite songs from that era

Hideki Matsutake is handling the keyboard programming duties on the album as Yano is playing a wide array of keyboards: Moog IIIc

It was like my Magna Carta

During the recording sessions held between June and August 1976

Now P-Vine reissues it as part of their 2021 Sai Yoshiko repressings