Café Après-midi meets Studio Ghibli

This is a compilation album of newly recorded covers of famous Studio Ghibli songs, curated and selected by Toru Hashimoto (SUBURBIA), featuring 12 super-talented artists and themed around "the happiness of afternoon coffee."

The jacket features original illustrations by Shiho Sato, the artist who works on the backgrounds for Studio Ghibli films, and Shinichiro Yamada, an animator who came from Ghibli, with design by FJD!

This album features 12 artists, many of whom have close ties to Café Après-midi in Shibuya, newly recording covers of famous Ghibli songs selected by Toru Hashimoto, under his exquisite direction, themed around "the happiness of afternoon coffee." It boasts some of the highest quality among the many Ghibli cover albums produced to date, and is a collection of truly special masterpieces.

The jacket, designed by FJD and featuring an illustration by the painter and animator who works on Ghibli films depicting scenes from Café Après-midi in a gradient from 1 PM to 7 PM, is wonderfully impressive. With Calm's mastering that focuses on the sound image, this is a superb official compilation of Café Après-midi and Studio Ghibli.