We're all in the garden of Japanese Tea
Est. Early 1970s · Whether we knew it or not
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Four artists. Five decades apart.
Christine McVie called it being visited. George Michael said it was handed to him. Lady Gaga said she just listens. We have a theory about where these songs actually come from — and we're not speaking hypothetically.
Read The ConspiracyThis is a participation site
Japanese Tea Garden has been releasing musical vibration into the universe since the 1970s. This site shares lyrics designed to train your ki — tuning you into the garden of music that awaits, so it can flow back out into the physical realm through you. If you've found this site, something brought you here. That something is the vibration.
Learn How It WorksThe Albums
Click an album to explore its songs.
Full songs. Complete lyrics. Maximum content. For those still finding the frequency — we have done the heavy lifting. You are welcome.
11 Songs · Album 1Less content. More space. For those more tuned in. Your instincts fill the rest. Available exclusively on 8-track tape.
10 Songs · Album 2 · 8-Track OnlyA triple album greatest hits collection. Almost nothing. Pure vibration. If you're here the music is already flowing through you.
Album 3 · Fan Submissions · Triple AlbumSix songs. One machine. Recorded live, whether anyone was ready or not. The cover is black for a reason.
6 Songs · Album 4 · Completely UnpluggedThe reunion album. Also known as The More Fertilizer Album. Never, until the number was right.
Album 5 · The Reunion AlbumThe self-titled album. Recorded before everything else. Currently tied up in litigation.
The Self-Titled Album · Status: SealedIf you've found this you're the kind of person this whole thing was made for.
Here's the truth.
I think art is important. I think music is important. I think the people who have the gift to bring vision and inspiration to life are extraordinary and deserve to be celebrated.
I also think we take it too seriously sometimes. We forget that creativity is supposed to be fun. We forget that the joke and the art aren't opposites. The best art I've ever encountered made me laugh and feel something real at the same time.
Japanese Tea Garden is my attempt to hold both of those things simultaneously. The absurdity and the sincerity. The joke and the meaning underneath it.
The range from my husband's heart attack in San Francisco traffic to a song called I Haven't Pooped In Days isn't a contradiction. It's the point. Life actually contains both of those things simultaneously. The grief and the absurdity. The profound and the ridiculous.
Mark Hannah was real. The heart attack was real. The cone zone was real. The silliness is real. The love underneath all of it is real.
If you got here without me having to explain it — welcome. You were always supposed to find this.
— James McAlister
Founding Member, Japanese Tea Garden