20th January 2010New releases and re-releases. From 60s jazz versions of traditional tunes to traditional versions of traditional tunes, 60s Group Sounds and Okinawan legend Shouei Kina. Listen to this Show
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2nd December 2009New releases from Japan including Minimums covers of YMO, shakuhachi player with Isao Tomita, re-release of 80s Miharu Koshi and taiko goup Wadaiko Hiryu. Listen to this Show
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18th November 2009Okinawan musician Kanako Horiuchi drops in to play live in the studio as well as recordings of her traditional music and with her band Ska Lovers, who mix Okinawan traditional with ska and J-pop. Listen to this Show
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4th November 2009Paul is joined by Cathy Eastburn of Good Vibrations who run gamelan workshops in UK prisons and secure hospitals. She plays some extraordinary music including her favourite Indonesian gamelan music and recordings from those workshops. Listen to this Show
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21st October 2009Releases from the excellent GNP label of Indonesia, featuring tracks from Sambasunda, Waldjinah and traditional Sundanese gamelan. Listen to this Show
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14th October 2009New releases from Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Setsubun Bean Unit, plus re-releases from Virginia Astley, Malaysia's Sharifah Aini and Zaleha Hamid, Cambodia's Ros Sereysothea and more. Listen to this Show
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23rd September 2009Paul is joined by Rie Ogata, recently of the Asian Music Circuit in London, just before she headed back to Japan. Rie plays some of her favourite Japanese experimental music. Listen to this Show
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29th July 2009Music featuring Yoshie Uno of Shisars and An-Chang Project who sadly passed away in July. Includes never before heard session recordings. Listen to this Show
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3rd June 2009Paul is joined by Vietnamese singer Huong Thanh and musician Hong Nguyen, to talk about Thanh's new album and to perform live in the studio. Listen to this Show
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20th May 2009Musicians who died too young, inspired by the passing of Kiyoshiro Imawano on May 2nd, plus legends from Cambodia, Thailand and other Japanese musicians. Listen to this Show
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11th February 2009David Mitchell of the group Panjir joins Paul for a fascinating talk on Uyghur music and to play some superb other Uyghur sounds. Listen to this Show
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15th October 2008Second programme in our series of record labels. This one focuses on Respect Records, with tracks from Takashi Hirayasu, Soul Flower Mononoke Summit, Cicala Mvta, Seijin Noborikawa, Abdul Tee-Jay and others Listen to this Show
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17th September 2008Three male singers who were born and died within a few years of eachother, were the biggest stars of the 50s and 60s in their own countries and remain icons today. Thailand's Surapol Sombatcharoen (1930-68), Cambodia's Sinn Sisamouth (1933-76) and Malaysia's P.Ramlee (1929-73) Listen to this Show
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24th July 2008Paul Fisher is a guest on Shibuya FM in Tokyo to talk about the Rough Guide to the Music of Japan Listen to this Show |
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21st May 2008Westerners playing Japanese and Asian inspired music- brilliantly. Artists include Henry Kaiser, John Kaizan Neptune, Elizabeth Falconer and Bob Brozman. Listen to this Show
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14th May 2008First in a new series paying homage to some of the Far East's best record labels. Disc Akabana / Off Note in Japan, has been a pioneering label in both the roots and contemporary jazz scenes. Listen to this Show
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7th May 2008The best of the latest new releases including Japanese electro-folk rock, an Okinawan/Indian mixture, Indonesian jaipong, Malaysian classic pop, Korean and Japanese traditional music and Arab Andalous vintage recordings. Listen to this Show
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6th February 2008Tracks from the 2 excellent volumes of Tributes to Haruomi Hosono from foreign artists including Dr John, Geoff Muldaur and Garth Hudson and Senor Cocunut while from Japan there's Buffalo Daughter, Makoto Kubota, Micabox and Sheena and the Rokkets. Listen to this Show
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30th January 2008Hawaii meets Japan and Okinawa with incredible collaborations from the last 60 years from Dick Mine to Sandii via Shokichi Kina and Nenes. Listen to this Show
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9th January 2008The best (worst?) of Asian pop. From established to new stars, the Malaysian, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese versions of Madonna, Celina Dion, Kylie Minogue etc.. Listen to this Show
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21st November 2007No Music Day - so listen to a Chinese cricket orchestra, sounds from a Japanese garden, traditional Japanese street entertainment, Sundanese Wayang Golek, Japanese kabuki, Japanese comedy, Balinese Gongs and more. Listen to this Show
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7th November 2007More essential new releases and old favourites from Haruomi Hosono + Cornelius, Ryuichi Sakamoto with a couple of collaborators, Hibari Misora, Indonesia's Sambasunda, Cambodian legend Ros Sereysothea and Dengue Fever. Listen to this Show
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31st October 2007Back on the air after a break, exceptional new releases from Japan's Haruomi Hosono, Morio Agata, YMO, Momonashi, China's Sa Ding Ding, Taiwan's Lo Sirong and Korea's Puri. Listen to this Show
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20th June 2007New releases and a few first time airings, including from Japan Takeharu Kunimoto's bluegrass shamisen, Thai legend Pompuang Duangjan, Korean female trio Infinity of Sound and the wacky sound of ponchak from Korean singer E Pak Sa. Listen to this Show
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9th May 2007More new releases, including Yasukatsu Oshima and Geoffrey Keezer, Tsuru to Kame featuring Haruomi Hosono and tributes to Haruomi Hosono, from Geoff Muldaur and Garth Hudson. Listen to this Show
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11th April 2007A programme of entirely vinyl tracks, culled from the Far Side vaults. Updated Japanese kouta or geisha style music, YMO, Akiko Yano, Okinawan singles, Indian film music and Tibetan conch calls Listen to this Show
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4th April 2007Prepare to be amazed as east Asian music from the 1940s-70s is combined with Latin and rock 'n' roll. Listen to pioneering artists of world mixtures from Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Thailand and Okinawa. Listen to this Show
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29th March 2007Neil Cantwell joins Paul to talk about his Japanese electronic project, Shinokosei, and exchange tracks from the cutting edge of the Japanese electronica and club scenes. Listen to this Show
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21st March 2007Tom Hamilton, leader of the Oxford University expedition to Tibet 2005, talks about the trip and plays some of his incredible recordings of rare folk music from the remote Porang region and the ritual chants of the Bodang-pa school of Buddhism. More info www.tibetmusic.org Listen to this Show
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21st February 2007The outer sounds of jazz and beyond from some of Japan's most extraordinary musicians including Shibusashirazu, Kazutoki Umezu, Cicala Mvta and Soil & Pimp Sessions. Listen to this Show
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14th February 2007All the major Japanese instruments and music styles, such as koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, gagaku, nogaku and kabuki from the award winning King Japanese Traditional Music Series. Listen to this Show
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31st January 2007Traditional gamelan music from Bali, Java and Malaysia, plus modern gamelan influenced tunes from Geinoh Yamashirogumi and Blue Asia among others. Listen to this Show
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17th January 2007Japanese and Asian music played by non-Japanese and Asians. Listen to among others Bjork, Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, Balanescu Quartet, 3 Mustaphas 3 and Brave Combo venture east. Listen to this Show
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29th November 2006Gideon Juckes of the Japanese / UK group Setsubun Bean Unit (and Farmyard Animals/Bellowhead) joins Paul to play his music and share their passion for the wacky side of Japanese ondo (festival music). Listen to this Show
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8th November 2006Legenday Japanese producer Makoto Kubota talks about his latest project Blue Asia, and other classic albums he has produced including Shokichi Kina's Bloodline and Detty Kurnia's Dari Sunda. Listen to this Show
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11th October 2006Sample the atmosphere of Tokyo in the 1950s with American soldiers playing Japanese influenced tunes and Japanese singers adding boogie woogie, mambo and rumba. First an exploding boiler had knocked out the Resonance FM transmitter, then the heavens opened up and flooded the studio and server during the broadcast. Listen to an unfolding disaster culminating in an abrupt end, as it happened! Listen to this Show
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27th September 2006New releases, from Kawachi ondo to a Blue Asia mix of the Lambada via Okinawan recordings by the sea. Listen to this Show |
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6th September 2006Music from around the world performed by Japanese musicians. From Tuvan throat singing to sitar, salsa, tango, fado and Irish harp. Listen to this Show |
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16th August 200660s Asian pop from Japan, Okinawa, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and more. Listen to this Show |
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26th July 2006Producer and Author Joe Boyd joins Paul for an exchange of their favourite Asian music. Listen to this Show |
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19th July 2006The most famous female singers from East Asia; Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Okinawa. Listen to this Show |
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21st June 2006The Far Side Top 10 for June, from big sellers to the new CDs we like. Listen to this Show |
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7th June 2006Ismet Ruchimat of SambaSunda plays music from his group, side projects and other Indonesian music. Listen to this Show |
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29th March 2006The golden age of Okinawan music from the 60s and 70s by the island's greatest musicians. Listen to this Show |
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1st February 2006From Cambodian traditional wedding music to sensational 70s psychedelic khmer roots mixtures. Listen to this Show |
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25th January 2006A musical journey through Vietnam from traditional to pop, north to south. Listen to this Show |
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17th October 2005Songs you'll know by artists you won't. Wacky cover versions from Yellow Submarine to No Woman No Cry via Japan, Indonesia and Okinawa. Listen to this Show |
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3rd August 2005Accalimed Ainu musician OKI comes in to talk about his music and culture. Listen to this Show |
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11th August 2004The best Far East albums ever! inspired by Charlie Gillett's Sound of the World forum. Listen to this Show |
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