Once again Studio Mule dives deep into the music history of Japan, unearthing the multi-colored album A-Key by Eiki Nonaka, released as CD only on the short living japanese label Sun & Moon Records in 1995. An album, that uniquely unifies global ethnic music styles, the playfulness of Jazz, innovative electronic soundscapes, and the winding per-sonality of spiritual music. Its the only solo album of a musician, that is triggering the advanced electrified japanese music culture since the early 1980s. Eiki Nonaka was part of electronic New Age quartet interiors, releasing the two minimalistic, synth-pop leaning albums Interior and design in 1982 and 1987. likewise, he was a member of Haruomi Hosonos band friends of earth, playing, voicing, and tuning the drum machine, guitar, synthesizers, and mi-crophone on their second landmark experimental Pop Electronic album Sex, Energy and Star, released Hosonos outstanding non-standard label in 1986.