Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi features the greatest hits from iconic award-winning films, orchestra and solo piano works including recordings never-before released outside Japan. "The John Williams of Japan" only hints at what makes Joe Hisaishi, one Japan's most beloved and prolific composers, a singular musical voice of the past 40 years. Most famous as the go-to composer for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki (the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro).

The Kaiju Project is a Japanese inspired jazz group formed by the half Japanese-Austrian pianist Aseo Friesacher. Their initial idea was to bring old folk songs into a new modern context, but in addition to their compositions, this group has found their very own musical direction: a perfect blend of traditional Japanese music and meditative-creative jazz.