Sake & Tears
Tombed VisionsWelcome to Sake and Tears – a monthly radio show that aims to unearth the forgotten gems of Japanese popular music of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, trawling through the bargain bins of Tokyo record stores and beyond to find the finest cuts of Showa Kayo, Enka, Mutant Pop and Cult Cinema Soundtracks for your listening pleasure. Hosted by Tombed Visions label boss, David McLean.
| Publishes | Infrequently | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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The second instalment of an unofficial two-parter, Episode 8 continues to survey the glorious sounds of Showa Kayo, laying siege to a an extensive haul of 7 inches acquired over the summer months. We’re clocking nearly 40 individual songs. We have sh... more
Episode 7 sees a firm return to the glorious realms of Showa Kayo with nearly 2 hours of back-to-back gold from the Tokyo bargain bins. We have stand-out singles from gravelly voiced enka hardman Koji Tsuda, a ghostly prairie ballad by Tokiko Kato, a... more
With over 70 tracks and a suitably immersive run time of well over three hours, episode 6 of Sake & Tears is another special, this time focusing on the fertile ground of Japanese film and TV soundtracks. Featuring carefully selected audio from long r... more
Marking the first Jazz Special, this month’s episode of Sake and Tears aims to explore the Japanese Jazz scene from the 60’s to the modern day, with a mixture of straight-ahead bangers, deep dark fusion workouts, avant-garde curiosities and solo pian... more
Making up for the delays between shows, this month's edition is another bumper episode, featuring multiple tracks from screen legends Tetsuya Watari and Yujiro Ishihara, Avant-pop duo Ippu-Do, doomed ballader Hako Yamasaki, Argentinian folk singer Gr... more
May’s edition of Sake and Tears is a bumper episode, featuring a whopping 26 songs of bargain bin brilliance. Along with the usual cuts from cult crime and samurai films we have two sets of three song comparisons throughout the show, dotting differen... more
Episode 2 showcases the brilliance of famed singer Chiemi Eri, whose bustling mixture of jazz, mambo and Latin moods reinvented Japanese folk music in the 60’s. There will also be another back-to-back comparison of two versions of the moody enka anth... more
This inaugural episode features 3 versions of the enka classic 'Abashiri Prison', carefully selected singles from Showa Kayo starlets Mina Aoe, Yukio Nagisa, Keiko Fuji and Yukiji Asaoka, a mountain of hits from popular cult crime and samurai cinema ... more
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