Rough Sundays

Has there ever been a more researched, prepped, planned and causing-excitement show? Probably. But never on this podcast. For the final (for now) Japanese Chapter—recorded in a tiny ryokan atop audible tatami mats—we dive into city pop, brother's folk, futuristic funk, female hip-hop, island breeze and new wave, all suitable for waking you up on this Sunday Morning. Hit play! Be glad you did!

From the base of Mt. Fuji and from inside one of those space capsule hotels, it's five tracks from a hip, rocking, steamy, racy, swingin' 1950-70s Japan, featuring a seedy actress, anime theme song producer, Tokyo's Serge Gainsbourg and the always dreamy Tome Kitagawa (photo). Plus a bit more, but coming in under 30 minutes! How's that for a polite, efficient, innovative and fascinating show/country? Hit play!

From a gorgeous Osaka and an even-more-gorgeous no-longer-freezing-in-a-tent, it's your absolutely favorite Sunday Morning show. This week, we dive deep, deep into old vinyl—journeying everywhere from a boogie-woogie 1940s Tokyo, to protests tracks of the 70s, funky stuff from Jiro Inagaki, and much much more. So sit right there, sip that coffee, and let's travel to some dreamy old magic from a yesterday Japan... courtesy of Rough Sundays! 

A traveling show this week—one from the park, the ferry, the tent and the hotel—but it doesn't stop us from digging up some of the goodness from a 1960s-80s Japan. Funk + soul kicks it off, some near-electro, then to country + folk, then summer + blue and finally with some sexy + robot. Is that too many "+" for you? Then may we suggest a smooth jazz show. This is Rough Sundays, live from Northern Japan! 

The colors might be starting to change here in Hokkaido, but the purpose of the show isn't—to wake you up nicely on your Sunday Morning, courtesy of music from wherever we are. And what a where we be! The magic, mysterious and mayhem-ic Japan. With tracks this week ranging from the 1960s-80s, featuring funk, soul, jazz, "city pop" and what one artist referred to as, simply, experimentalism.

Coming to you from high atop the Pokhara Mountains, Nepal, it's totally Rough Sundays, you guys! We dive into much goodness—including France's last great troubadour, the lady who made Bob Dylan, old Trinidadian Calypso by way of a 1940s Harlem, as well as the Queen of Havana, the two deaths of Sam Cooke, outlaw country and much, much more. 

So sit back. Sip black. Hit play. And let us start your Sunday morning off the way it should be... by you doing absolutely nothing. 

Coming to you from the famed Apostle Studios in Pokhara, Nepal, it’s your hopefully favorite Sunday Morning wake-me-up show! We start with some new Haitian, go back 102 years to New Orleans, a track you only know from the sample, a little ticklin’ from Taj, plus the late great Cameroonian doing his own voodoo… plus much more. It’s Rough Sundays! You’re in the right place! Huzzah!