Akiko Yano (矢野顕子*) - Japanese Girl C338 Assume Form frontloads its track

Assume Form frontloads its track listing with songs that borrow from radio rap trends and feature guest spots from bigger names in rap and pop

Released: 2016-02-12

The album is a lightning-flash collection of all-time classic and definitive dancehall classics as well as a stellar selection of more obscure tracks

Brian Reitzell

A1 Must Be All The Wrong Things A2 Night Walk A3 It Never Occurred To Me A4 Thinking About You Calms Me Down A5 Yes II B6 Dum Audio B7 Fidget B8 Samba On Sama B9 Waiting Game

Akiko Yano (矢野顕子*) - Japanese Girl C338 Assume Form frontloads its trackBorn 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