Akebonojirushi
Paradise Mambo
First vinyl reissue of Akebonojirushi's Paradise Mambo, originally on the influential DIW label in 1987. A six-piece formed in Hakata before relocating to Tokyo in 1984, the band fused new wave, jazz-funk and unconventional pop into a record that is unmistakably of its moment yet remarkably forward-looking, sitting somewhere between the city pop sophistication of late-80s Tokyo and the unrulier corners of the same scene.