Ajate - Dala Toni Artist_Charley Crockett At the start of 2024

At the start of 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy

and some sweet synth boogie is never very far away

this is a good-quality city pop album in the Japanese AOR Crossover Mellow Groove style

I can choose to ignore it

featuring references to surrealism

Ajate - Dala Toni Artist_Charley Crockett At the start of 2024Tokyo based band and Afrobayashi pioneers Ajate are back with their third album: experience the explosive encounter of Afro groove and Japanese traditional Ohayashi music! During a stay in West Africa in the late 2000s, Japanese musician Junichiro "John" Imaeda was taken aback by the similarities he felt between the Afrobeat that resonated in the streets of Accra, and the sounds of the "Ohayashi, the music played during ancestral Japanese festivals,