and their excursions into instrumental soundtrack work (primarily working for director Claire Denis)

and sounding great

and drummer [a=Johan Holmegard] (the previous drummer was [a=Fredrik Björling])

Era focuses solely on the group's earlier material with the deluxe

with a release of new material and new albums every few years

Akiko Yano - Ai Ga Nakucha Ne Personalidad 15 Éxitos and their excursions into instrumentalBorn as Akiko Suzuki () on 13 February 1955 in Tokyo, Akiko Yano studied jazz piano in high school and recorded her first album, Japanese Girl, in 1976. To the familiar wispy, girlish voice of Japanese idoru, Yano added something different: a whimsical sense of mischief and the ability to simultaneously sing and improvise on the piano. Japanese Girl caused a sensation in the Japanese music scene, with Yano standing out from the Japanese pop scene of