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Season 11 Episode 15: October 27th, 2014

SPECIAL "MUSIC FROM JAPAN" EPISODE!

Shugo Tokumaru (Tokyo, Japan)
01 Young Folks
Young Folks (Single)
(youtube)
cover of: Peter Bjorn & John

Blackbird (クロウタドリ) (Tokyo, Japan)
02 The Declining Sun (仄日(そくじつ)
The Declining Sun (EP)
(bandcamp)

Blackbird (クロウタドリ) (Tokyo, Japan)
03 Future in the Fog
Spring & Future (EP)
(bandcamp)

Yokan System (Tokyo, Japan)
04 Klee
05 Teresa
Premonition System (予感システム)
(soundcloud)

Jesse Ruins (Tokyo, Japan)
06 Laura is Fading
A Film
(iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3)

Halo Twins (Japan)
07 Night Dance
08 Orange
Damn It the Color Name (EP)
(bandcamp)
similar to: Daft Punk

Lullatone (Nagoya, Japan)
09 Splitting a Banana Split
Summer Songs (EP)
(iTunes, bandcamp, eMusic ,Amazon)
similar to: The Brunettes

Lullatone (Nagoya, Japan)
10 Adventure Music for Migrating Birds
Falling for Autumn (EP)
(iTunes, bandcamp, eMusic, Amazon)
similar to: music from every start-up's video, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Cibo Matto (NYC via Tokyo, Japan)
11 Sugar Water
Viva! La Woman
(iTunes, Amazon MP3)

Happy End (Japan)
12 Kaze Wo Atsumete
Lost In Translation (Soundtrack)
(iTunes, Amazon MP3)
similar to: 60's and 70's music

Pizzicato Five (Tokyo, Japan)
13 Good!
Big Hits and Jet Lags '91-'95
(Amazon CD)

Pizzicato Five (Tokyo, Japan)
14 The Girl from Ipanema
Lounge-a-Palooza
(Amazon CD)
cover of: Antônio Carlos Jobim and Norman Gimbel

Shonen Knife (Osaka, Japan)
15 Top of the World
Birds & the B-Sides
(iTunes, Amazon MP3)
cover of: The Carpenters

Also On This Episode

This episode features a short clip from Family Guy as well as a clip of an interview with Bill Murray on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show about the Japanese Phrasebook he used while he was there shooting Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation.