Takuya Kuroda - Rising SonFirst Word Records is incredibly proud to bring you an exclusive vinyl only re issue of Takuya Kuroda's highly sought after album 'Rising Son'. 'Rising Son' was first released on the seminal Blue Note Records imprint 10 years ago in 2014, with Takuya being the first Japanese artist to sign to the label. The record received widespread critical acclaim, hitting No. 1 on Japan's jazz charts at the time, with original copies now fetching hundreds of

‘Take me to the moon’ contains an up and front piano lead

Admin steps up for the second edition of Mystical Circles

Charting Mike’s impressive career that spans over three decades

drops their first solo release since 2018

Over on the flip

The album also serves as a score for the accompanying science fiction theatre production that goes by the same name

Nu Genea couldn't afford to overlook their firmly anchored roots into the Neapolitan culture and its dialect with "Tienaté"

but injected with Native consciousness

Norman Nodge

Heaven (Marlon D Remix)

where empty urban expanse and latent stillness meets a Mediterranean azure of sky and sea

Midi sequencing and field recordings are the instrumentation used in these 15 songs recorded on a four track reel to reel tape