CMU Approved

Approved: Nihon Kizuna

By | Published on Monday 21 March 2011

Nihon Kizuna

As we reported on Friday, ‘Nihon Kizuna’ was released last week. A compilation being sold to raise money for the relief effort in Japan, it features 49 tracks from electronic artists such as Kode9, Fink, Emika, Nightwave (aka 8Bitch), Daisuke Tanabe and more. It’s an impressive haul, made all the more so because it was all pulled together in just five days by London-based writer and radio presenter Laurent Fintoni, who arrived in Tokyo the day before the earthquake and tsunami hit.

Selling for £10, it made over $2000 in the first three hours it was available and has now raised over $11,000 for the Japan Red Cross – testament to both people’s desire to help out a country in trouble and the superb quality of the music you get for that money. Everyone involved is giving up their time and creations for free, plus Bandcamp (through which the compilation is being sold) has agreed to waive it’s cut of revenues, so all your cash really will go to the good cause intended.

www.nihonkizuna.com



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