nippon guitars

This first ever retrospective of Japanese guitar pioneer Takeshi Terauchi charts his career from the 1960s surf boom, via groovy instrumentals, through to 70s fuzz freak-outs and funk rock. The set was collated by Honest Jons Records resident Japan-ist, Howard Williams, the man behind the "Killing Melody" Japanese gangster soundtrack compilation and the Japonica blog and club night. A must-have item for collectors of guitarnbeats from around the world or anyone with a curiosity for vintage Oriental popular music, the collection features a wealth of traditional Japanese folk melodies and 60s J-pop given an electric guitar battering."