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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
I stumbled across this album a year or so ago while I was looking for something else. Japanese bossa nova that sounds convincing enough that it almost could have come right out of Brazil during the 1960's...
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Very good indeed!
Well, as Brazil is the country with the largest japanese population outside Japan, no wonder there would be at least one nippo-brazilian Bossa Nova famous musician, and this is Lisa Ono. A singer who had a key role in popularizing Brazilian music in Japan:
"Lamp" is one of the latest bands in Japanese independent music scene which has Bossa as a major influence:
And the master Ryuichi Sakamoto also recorded with the Brazilian duo Jacques and Paula Morelenbaum a nice Bossa album called "Casa":