On the show this time, it’s the sunny '50s and '60s movie theme songs of Japanese singer Yuma Abe.

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EPISODE WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY julian martlew 

On the show this time, it’s the sunny '50s and '60s movie theme songs of Japanese singer Yuma Abe.

Yuma Abe released his second solo album Hotel New Yuma in December of 2024. It’s a concept album. The music is based on a fictitious variety show at a hotel “on a warm island, somewhere south of the country,” with Yuma himself as the host of the show. The songs on the record are the theme songs for the variety show. It is available on White Noise Records.

Recorded June 24, 2025

  1. Let’s Dream 
  2. Many Strange Things
  3. Omaemo 
  4. That Feels Good 
  5.  Friends 
  6. Sayonara 

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