Morning Flight: 80s Japanese Synth & Funk [8tracks link]

Junko Yagami - Kashimiya No Hohoemi

Sandii - Zoot Kook

Hiroshi Satoh - Say Goodbye

Koharu Kisaragi & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Neo-Plant

Yukiko Okada - Sayonara

Eri Ohno - Skyfire

Akiko Yano - Itsuka Ojisamaga 

Haruomi Hosono - Sportsmen

Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry Eyes

Kaoru Akimoto - Dress Down

Maneki-neko Kagekidan - 人形

Hiroyuki Namba - Who Done It? (part 2)

Cioccolata - Nina from the Dark Moon

Pale Coccoon - Flalorm

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Takako Mamiya - Love Trip

Chiemi Manabe - Mysterious Girl

Yapoos - Bojo no Tsumi

Miharu Koshi - Scandal Night

Masumi Hara - ズットじっと

Yoko Oginome - Postcard from Paris

Momoko Kikuchi - Blind Curve

Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives

Mikado - Romance

Ryo Kawasaki - Hawaiian Caravan

Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira 

Kidorikko - Konokono Koneko

Toshiki Kadomatsu - Lucky Lady Feel So Good

The Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri in Italian-language), also named Garden of Bomarzo, is a Manieristic monumental complex located in Bomarzo, in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio, Italy.

The gardens were created during the 16th century. They are composed of a wooded park, located at the bottom of a valley where the castle of Orsini was erected, and populated by sculptures and small buildings divided among of the natural vegetation.

The park’s name stems from the many larger-than-life sculptures, some sculpted in the bedrock, which populate this predominantly barren landscape. It is the work of Pier Francesco Orsini, called Vicino (1523–1585), a condottiero and patron of the arts, greatly devoted to his wife Giulia Farnese, not to confuse with her maternal grandmother Giulia Farnese, the mistress of Pope Alexander VI. When the wife of Orsini died, he created the gardens. The design is attributed to Pirro Ligorio, and the sculptures to Simone Moschino.

During the nineteenth century and deep into the twentieth the garden became overgrown and neglected, but in the 1970s a program of restoration was implemented by the Bettini family, and today the garden, which remains private property, is a major tourist attraction.

The park of Bomarzo was intended not to please, but to astonish, and like many Mannerist works of art, its symbolism is arcane : examples are a large sculpture of one of Hannibal’s war elephants, which mangles a Roman legionary, or the statue of Ceres lounging on the bare ground, with a vase of verdure perched on her head.