Following the magnetizing and lulling ‘Chartreuse’, Blue Earth Sound has shared new single ‘Japanese Green’. Both tracks are lifted from his forthcoming EP The St. Louis Sessions, the follow-up to last year’s debut album Cicero Nights, which was one of our Album Picks of 2025, and one we can’t put down. James Weir, the Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer behind Blue Earth Sound, recorded the EP in St. Louis, Missouri, with drummer and longtime collaborator Austin LeMoine, and a small group of musicians, including local horn players Jawaad Spaan and Josiah Burton.

‘Japanese Green’ is a cinematic and delicious track partly inspired by 90s R&B and Japanese Jazz. Of the track, Weir shares:

“I wanted this one to feel like a swingin’ cruiser, with strong unified horns. We settled on this A & B structure, with the swing and groove at the start, but added sensitivity at the end with a nice, muted piano lead and delay floating over the top.”

Listen to ‘Japanese Green’ below and grab The St. Louis Sessions EP when it drops on May 19th through DeepMatter Records.