Shinrin yoku

There is something warm, enveloping and deeply nostalgic about Japanese citypop. Summer days in the 80s and dreams free to take flight.
A little gift while you put this Japanese cassette in:

Side A

warm balcony air, fading sun, glossy magazines

track 01

Remember Summer Days

Anri

this feels like a seaside memory kept inside a pale pink cassette case

play with the windows open

track 02

Midnight Pretenders

Tomoko Aran

night lights, soft lipstick, the city lights that look like little stars

best listened to after dark

the cassette is slowly melting into side B.

Side B

telephone wires at dusk, green tea, a little longing

track 03

Telephone Number

Junko Ohashi

bright rhythm, hurried heart, fingers turning a dial on an 80s telephone

for a brighter hour of the tape

track 04

I can't stop the loneliness

Anri

the tender ache that lingers after sunset

for the softest part of evening

Cassette player in the hands, hair blowing in the wind,
the gentle, slow waves of the Japanese sea, and the mind returns to a
more childlike, more real state.