Ghibli Guitar

Cover a studio ghibli masterpiece with a solo acoustic guitar. This collection contains 24 songs of studio ghibli as "Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind", "Laputa: Castle In The Sky", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Princess Mononoke", "Howl's Moving Castle" etc. Ghibli music fans can be enjoyed this healing album.

Alabaster DePlume is not doing things properly, and this makes him very happy. DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists. Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities across the UK.

Cha-Ran by bassist/composer Robert Lee is a continuation of an exploration of artistic identity. An identity that is founded in the emotional provocation of jazz and improvised music but pursues the exploration and implementation of new musical genres into one cohesive creative theatre.

Norwegian quartet Pom Poko met while all studying at the Trondheim Music Conservatory in Norway and quickly began to garner interest from a wider audience once they'd begun playing and writing together. The group cite a range of questing influences on their unique sound, including ''(West)-African music like Oumou Sangaré and Ali Farka Touré; indie bands like Vulfpeck, Palm and KNOWER; noisy high-energy bands such as Hella and Death Grips; and music with interesting lyrics such as Jenny Hval and Nick Drake.'' Their name is taken from one of the more vigorously outré films by Japanese animation visionaries Studio Ghibli. Album opener ''Theme1'', locates a sweet spot between Deerhoof and Battles as singer Ragnhild issues loud, clear rebel yells over Martin's math-rock guitar. Singles ''My Blood'' and ''Follow The Lights'' layer seductively sweet melodies over squalls of sound, while the funk-fired ''My Work Is Full of Art'' offers a kind of mission statement: ''I'll just let freaky surround me,'' sings Fangel.

Trailblazing instrumental synth pop experiments created to soundtrack Japan’s booming 1980s cartoon and comic industries. The brightly futuristic instrumentals on this collection reflect the mindset of composers and musicians who believed in a technological future where everything was possible. In the late 1980s Japan experienced a brief but heady period where societal changes combined with new-found wealth to open up a world of possibilities. A huge influx of cash - artificially created by slashed interest rates after an agreement with the US to weaken the dollar relative to the yen - resulted in the inflation of real estate and stock market at a rapid pace. While the economic bubble it created was unprecedented and impossible to sustain, for a while money was in plentiful supply.The musical genre City Pop reflected the aspirations of the country’s booming leisure class. Video games flourished with Nintendo's 1983 launch of their Family Computer (or FamiCom). Studio Ghibli was founded 1985 to later became one of the most famous and respected animation studios in the world, and Anime and Manga were established as major forms of entertainment for all generations of the Japanese public.

DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists. Whilst much of his music contains vocals – often whispered imperatives – this is a collection of instrumentals, drenched in feeling and recorded over four albums and eight earth years in cities across the UK.