稲垣次郎 Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media - Funky Stuff (Cassette Tape Edition) [PRE-ORDER, Release Date: 30-SEP-2026] Artist_Ibrahim Hesnawi 000-word essay exploring the terminal

000-word essay exploring the terminal stages of the ’90s

only a month after their sophomore album

Beyond this milestone reissue

Following the breakup of Sugar Babe

it includes a 4page insert featuring a fascinating extended essay by Ólafsson himself

稲垣次郎 Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media - Funky Stuff (Cassette Tape Edition) [PRE-ORDER, Release Date: 30-SEP-2026] Artist_Ibrahim Hesnawi 000-word essay exploring the terminalAn overwhelming sonic impacteach note resonating with both elasticity and depth. A jewel of Japanese jazz, where a distinctly Japanese sense of autonomy meets cutting edge recording techniques, now released on cassette for the first time. At a time when Japanese jazz was absorbing influences from the United States and Europe while searching for its own identity, Jiro Inagaki turned his focus to one essential element: groove. Hints of this direction