Sep 12,2026
CITY POP WAVES: CASIOPEA Special Live 2026 — Los Angeles, CA
Somewhere around two in the morning, a Japanese jazz playlist stops being background and becomes the only thing in the apartment. Everyone who has gone down that hole ends up in roughly the same place, and the band waiting at the bottom of it formed in 1976.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
Somewhere around two in the morning, a Japanese jazz playlist stops being background and becomes the only thing in the apartment. Everyone who has gone down that hole ends up in roughly the same place, and the band waiting at the bottom of it formed in 1976.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
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CITY POP WAVES: CASIOPEA Special Live 2026 — Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, September 12, 2026
7:00 PM PDT – 11:00 PM PDT
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Somewhere around two in the morning, a Japanese jazz playlist stops being background and becomes the only thing in the apartment. Everyone who has gone down that hole ends up in roughly the same place, and the band waiting at the bottom of it formed in 1976.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
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