J-Folk
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Best Alternative Music of 2025 (Mixtape Side B) Released on Higher Plain Music Radio
A wild cantor through the best hidden gems of alternative electronica, folk, and rock from 2025.
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Yae – 8 Billion Prayers Review
Yae returns with a new world folk album of hope for Mother Earth.
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TEKE::TEKE – Hagata Review
Introducing you to Eleki - Japanese surf rock infused with traditional instruments
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Live Vault – Yae
A beautiful introduction to one of the purist voices in world folk music.
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Introducing… Ichiko Aoba
The calmest and purest voice I've heard in years.
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Yae – On The Border Review
The music of motherly love
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Paniyolo and Akio Watanabe – Passage of Sky Review
An unusual collaboration makes the most delicate of melodies
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Yae – “Blue Line” Review
Yae, possibly most famous from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a mighty fine repertoire behind her and this her second album Blue Line is the quietest and…
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Chitose Hajime – “Kotonoha” Review
Sometimes artists from overseas have an EP that they use to tread out into the other sectors of the world and that appears like what…
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Video Vault – Laura Shigihara
Laura Shigihara has worked on some beautiful music in her time and this wonderful live/recorded hybrid cover of the sumptuous Inochi no Namae from the…
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Yuji Hasegawa – “Final Fantasy Songbook Mahoroba” Review
Final Fantasy Songbook “Mahoroba” is a collection of songs arranged by Yuji Hasegawa and half of them have vocals sung in Japanese by Manami Kiyota.…
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Live vault – Yae
Yae has announced her 10 year anniversairy in March and to celebrate this week she is our Live Vault. Here’s to the next ten years…
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Live Vault: Yae
I have been searching for ages for a full decent live song on youtube of Yae. She’s so good live as her live CD shows…
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Chitose Hajime To Release Two Mini Albums
Chitose Hajime will be releasing two mini albums on the same day. The first mini album will contain six cover songs called “Kotohona””. The second…
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Video Vault – Chitose Hajime
Having just watched the live DVD from her fourth album, I thought I’d treat everyone to some Chitose Hajime. This is the video for Wadatsumi…
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Aoi Teshima – The Rose ~I Love Cinemas~ Review
Aoi Teshima has had a busy 2008 releasing two albums. The first is this one, entitled “The Rose ~I Love Cinemas~” which takes eight well…
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Aoi Teshima – “Tales of Earthsea Kashu” Review
The girl lucky enough to sing and then be offered lead actress in a Studio Ghibli film had her dreams come true when straight after…
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Live Vault – Aoi Teshima
Aoi Teshima is this weeks Live Vault artist with a beautiful rendition of “Rainbow” which is the ending theme for “The Witch of the West…
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Chitose Hajime – New Album Confirmed
Chitose Hajime confirmed her new album entitled “Cassini” will be released on the 16th of July. What does seem to conflict though is that the…
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Rikki – “Suteki Da Ne” Review
“Suteki Da Ne” is the vocal theme of Final Fantasy X and is sung by Rikki. The song is a ballad with a swaying beat,…
