Bleep

Heisei No Oto is compiled by two Osaka record store owners and long-time friends of Music From Memory, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato. It dives deep into an elusive world of Japanese, left-field pop music released exclusively on CD. The title refers to the Heisei era of Japanese history (1989-2019), when the CD overtook vinyl as the primary format, and countless releases were confined to a now-overlooked medium. Taniguchi and Sato have cherry picked the best of the era, including music from Haruomi Hosono, Yasuaki Shimizu and pop star Yosui Inoue. Includes liner notes by Chee Shimizu.