Event: Kan Sano

“Mojacat,” Kan Sano’s first solo album in four years, gave the musician the opportunity to work with childhood favorites such as Chara and Ua. | Yoshiharu Ota Kan Sano has been a go-to producer, live backing musician and collaborator in the Japanese music ecosystem for well over a decade. Yet, according to him, it’s only on his latest album, “Mojacat,” that he really started trusting others creatively.“I’ve always been something of a perfectionist, and I’ve wanted to build all the sounds myself,” Sano, 42, says over a video call from his home studio, which is crammed with records. “When you make things by yourself, there’s a limit to what one person can imagine. If you bring in other people’s ideas, you can do things you never could have imagined on your own. I feel like I’ve only recently started to really understand how fun that can be.”“Mojacat,” Sano’s first solo album in four years, embraces that mindset by featuring  an assortment of guests ranging from J-pop staples such as the singer Ua to rising band luv. There’s still plenty of space for Sano to showcase his own approach to funk (“Romantics in A Flat Major”) and internet-inspired beat music (“OK [is not OK]”), but overall he’s letting other perspectives in. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.By subscribing, you can help us get the story right. SUBSCRIBE NOW