These tracks were originally recorded about 15 years ago.
The Japanese rainy season (tsuyu) is not as pleasant, or as brooding, as the music might sometimes suggest.
It is, in fact, a nasty, densely humid time where the air dies, and the whole world seeming to hang in greasy strands. Breathing becomes an ordeal, everything is permanently damp.
It is a ropey old season, which no one, including the Japanese, seems to enjoy :)
Found these old tracks though, and seeing as it is actually the rainy season right now here in deepest Kansai, here they are again.
Free to stream and download.
Just watch out for the flying ants...