Jazz Kissa ジャズ喫茶 – una selección de Jazz Japonés

Saturday, July 11 | 9:00 am - 10:30 am (90 mins)

Jazz Kissa (ジャズ喫茶)

Inspired by the jazz kissa tradition—Japanese cafés dedicated to listening to music in silence and with attention—this session transforms the room into a space for deep listening. Through selections that could be heard in a jazz kissa in Japan, we explore artists, scenes, and recordings that take on a new dimension when we give them our full attention.

We play digital audio of the highest quality through our analog system: tube amplifiers and OJAS KO-R1 speakers. Designed by Devon Turnbull, the KO-R1 creates hyper-realistic and detailed, warm and natural soundscapes. They generate absolute presence in the sound. In our space designed for deep listening, you will discover hidden details, textures, and movements impossible to feel in headphones.

why Jazz Kissa ジャズ喫茶 – una selección de Jazz Japonés

This playlist is a window into Japanese jazz from the seventies and eighties: a period in which musicians like Ryo Fukui, Sadao Watanabe, Casiopea, Sinsuke Fujieda and Jiro Inagaki took a genre borrowed from the United States and returned it transformed by their own sensibility. Some records remained almost secret outside Japan for decades, surviving in vinyl collections and in the memory of those who discovered them by chance. For this session we become a jazz kissa —the Japanese cafés dedicated to listening to records in silence and with devotion— to hear these recordings with the attention they deserve.

curated by sona

We select albums for their cultural relevance, emotional depth, rich textures, and technical detail—to ensure they sound their absolute best in our space.

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