Japan Tag

As musicians we are always amazed by the possibilities of merging different influences and finding new inspirations to develop different and fresh sounds. A good example of this result of making something new by mixing different genres is city pop. City pop is a genre of music that originated in Japan around the 70s and became wildly popular around the 80s Late 70s Japan In order to understand...

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Despite all the connections and relationships between different cultures, there is still a big difference between the east and the west mostly between Western culture and Asian culture. While music is a place to share a universal language, there are many interesting differences in the way music developed since many centuries ago. According to britannica.com there are: "three general concepts: (1) the sound ideal, (2) the...

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