This week's podcast is a special feature on the music of Koichi Yuasa - a former car mechanic turned tea farmer now living in the town of Ureshino, Saga prefecture.

His company make amazing tea oil products:

http://www.ryokumon.jp/

He taught me the meaning of the word 'shibui', probably my favourite Japanese word: a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty.

https://intoroniq.bandcamp.com/releases

We make music together as shinekosei.

http://shinekosei.bandcamp.com/