Shintaro Sakamoto

The former leader of Japanese psych rockers Yura Yura Teikoku, Shintaro Sakamoto struck from his own this year 2010 almost soon after the group disbanded. Influenced by breezy ’70s pop from all over the world, which range from bossa nova to folk-rock to noises well-known in his homeland, Sakamoto started recording a couple of tunes almost totally by himself — aside from female support vocals, percussion, and woodwinds. The outcomes, How exactly to Live with a Phantom, had been released in 2012. Early in 2014, Sakamoto collaborated with Mayer Hawthorne on the split single for this year’s Record Shop Time. Let’s Dance Organic, which included slack key electric guitar, Latin percussion, vocal results, and more, appeared that Sept. In 2016, a edition of the tune “Disco Is certainly” offering vocals by Synsuke Ono preceded Sakamoto’s third record, Love WHEN POSSIBLE. The album premiered in Japan that July and received a wider discharge in 2017.