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Instrumental album released in Japan but the featuring tracks are in English.

Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B/Piano
Artist: Male
*Recommended

Track List:
01. Make You
02. Nothing Is (Feat. Oddisee)
03. The Script For Life
04. Little Star
05. Our Friends
06. Rewind (Feat. Aaron Phiri)
07. Good Morning
08. J.E.A.L.O.U.S.Y (Feat. Melodee)
09. Walk On
10. Now Or Never
11. Cosmic
12. Unchanged Mind

The Cradle Orchestra is a Japanese group “specializing and leading a beautiful revolution in mellow and jazzy Hip Hop track making”. Velvet Ballads is chalk full of dope features on top of equally as dope instrumentation. With guest spots from dudes like Talib Kweli, CL Smooth & Black.







Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Genre: Hip Hop
Artist: Group

Track List:
01. Talk it Out feat. Nieve & Jean Curley
02. All I Want In This World feat. CL Smooth
03. Mountain Top feat. Aloe Blacc
04. Live Forever feat. Black Thought (of The Roots)

05. Bubbles feat. Jean Curley
06. So Fresh feat. Talib Kweli
07. Nothin For Nothin feat. CL
08. Only One feat. Need Not Worry
09. Jag Jam Jazz
10. The World Outside In feat. Othello
11. Cheers feat. Asheru
12. Food For Thoughts feat. O.C.
13. Yin Stacks feat. Rakaa Iriscience (of Dilated Peoples)
14. Velvet Ballads

New album release from Joe Hisaishi including “Departure,” “Turandot,” “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,” new song “ten end of the world” and more. Limited edition includes bonus DVD featuring recording footage.
Bonus Track: piano theme of the film “Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai,” “I’d rather be a Shellfish” and insert tune of the TV spots, “I will be”

Release Date: February 18, 2009
Language: Japanese
Genre: Instrumental
Artist: Male

Track List:
01. Woman
02. Love Theme of Taiwangsashingi

03. Les Aventuriers
04. Departures: Prologue – Theme
05. Departures: Prayer
06. Departures: Theme of Departures
07. Departures: Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
08. Departures: Destiny of Us (from Musical Turandot)
09. The End of the World: I. Collapse
10. The End of the World: II. Grace of St. Paul
11. The End of the World: III. Beyond the World
12. The End of the World: IV. The End of the World
13. I’d Rather Be A Shellfish (bonus track)
14. I Will Be (bonus track)

*Track 2 is another version of Sujini’s Theme/Approval from the soundtrack of Korean Drama The Legend.

Utada Hikaru’s first English-language album, Exodus, was an instant hit when initially released in September 2004, ranking no. 1 on the Oricon charts and selling over a million copies. 2009 sees Utada return to the English speaking pop world with the goal to conquer a bigger US market, where she looks to gain a larger share market after Exodus entered the top 160 on U.S. charts. Utada’s second full-length English-language release is scheduled to hit he shelves in March in Japan and May in the U.S. The mid-tempo R&B ballad Come Back To Me, Utada’s recently released spin-off track, is the principal number on this highly anticipated release.

Release Date: March 14, 2009
Language: English
Genre: R&B/Pop
Artist: Female
*Recommended

Track List:
01. On And On
02. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – FYI

03. Apple And Cinnamon
04. Taking My Money Back
05. This One (Crying Like A Child)

06. Automatic Part II
07. Dirty Desire
08. Poppin’
09. Come Back To Me
10. Me Muero
Extra Remix Tracks：
・Come Back To Me (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Radio Edit)
・Come Back To Me (Quentin Harris Radio Edit)

Hiroki Mizukami is a jazz and classical piano player from Japan. The album is generally nu-jazz and downtempo, but diverges into hip hop. Tracks are instrumentals, except for the last one which features English lyrics.








Release Date: March 7, 2007
Language: English
Genre: Instrumental/Nu-Jazz/Downtempo/Hip Hop
Artist: Male
*Recommended

Track List:
01. The cycles of…
02. Rainy forest
03. Break it down
04. Human Race-original instrumental version
05. Asian mystique
06. Dreams to Dream
07. C.M.T.
08. Beatin’
09. Soul vibration
10. Rabbit’s foot-interlude
11. Twice dub
12. Breezy afternoon
13. Inside magic
14. Keep aLive

15. Human Race-The Good People remix