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Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Once again, Japanese crossover/fusion is heating up. As a development or spin-off from the global reappraisal boom of city pop, Japanese fusion has rapidly risen back into the spotlight since around last year. This is the first album released by world-renowned Japanese trumpeter Terumasa Hino after moving to the up-and-coming label Who-Ring, then under Toshiba EMI (now Universal Music). Produced in part by Lalah, the gifted artist who later provided major hits for Whitney Houston, the album take