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Hiroki Komazawa (駒沢裕城): Feliz (フェリース) (1992)

2020/08/21

Sometimes I think various music reviewers and blogs bandy the term “floating” a bit too loosely with music. What some might think of as a floater seems to be a bit lightweight to me. However, in the case of Hiroki Komazawa’s Feliz, no other term comes closest to describing it. Here there is just one…
Criola (クリオラ): Winter Songbook (1992)

2018/12/21

I have a confession to make: I didn’t quite “get” Criola’s Winter Songbook, for a long time. Looking back, though, this season, I’ve been blessed with many things in life and one of them has been running this blog. Never have I been so inspired, influenced, and devoted to maintain this running conversation with people…
Takami Hasegawa (長谷川孝水): L’Ecume Des Jours (日々の泡) (1983)

2017/11/10

These are the kind of stories that make me smile. Truth be told, there is desperately little story out there to tell of Takami Hasegawa’s sole release L’Ecume Des Jours (a nod to Boris Vian’s novel Froth on the Daydream…). Singer-songwriter Takami Hasegawa from Fukushima decides to release an album of Gallic-style, Les Disques du…
Jerry Jeff Walker: Hill Country Rain (1972) and Long Afternoons (1976)

2014/08/22

Jerry Jeff Walker – 1976 Texas is like a vortex, we tend to suck in some of the creatures other places would reject. As long as they’re not Florida crazy, we’ll tend to pay them a mind or two. One artist who needed more than a mind or two is New York born, yet Austinite…