Sonia Rosa: Samba Amour (1979)
Heady, windswept, gauzy saudade that could only come from someone like Sonia Angelica De Carvalho Rosa, are things that don’t quite reveal themselves when you hear Samba…
May 16, 2017
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Year: 2017
113 records
Imagination: Night Dubbing (1983)
“Forget your sorrow let’s start livin’ for today” those are the sublime spliced verses that kick off this monumental piece of house music. Before such…
May 12, 2017
Sly and Robbie: Language Barrier (1985)
I’m looking at the liner notes to Sly & Robbie’s Language Barrier right now. Performances by Afrika Bambaataa, Bernie Worrell, Mikey Chung, Manu Dibango,…
May 10, 2017
Serge Gainsbourg: Aux Armes Et Cætera (1979) and Dub Style (2003)
Back in 1979, French musical giant Serge Gainsbourg travels to Jamaica, meets up with hugely influential dub producers Sly and Robbie, then…
May 8, 2017
Eblen Macari: Música Para Planetarios (1987)
Every time I revisit Eblen Macari’s landmark release, Música Para Planetarios, I find something different and special about it. At times, it’s finding…
May 5, 2017
Koji Ueno: Music For Silent Movies (1985)
Music For Silent Movies, it’s all there in the title. Koji Ueno, one half of Japanese duo Guernica (the other half being…
May 3, 2017
Alap Jetzer: Eternity’s Sunrise (1986)
Sun-lit, rainbow music for respite after rainy days. That’s how I would describe Alap Jetzer’s largely acoustic renditions of Hindu guru Sri…
May 1, 2017
Syoko: Soil (1986)
Everytime I put on Syoko’s Soil I have to do a double-take. Seriously? The music coming out of my headphones right now was made…
April 28, 2017
Büdi Siebert: Hmm… (1983)
New age records shouldn’t sound (or look!) as fun as German Büdi Siebert’s Hmm…, but I wager no one ever asked Büdi…
April 26, 2017
Sheila Chandra: Quiet! (1984)
It still boggles my mind that Quiet! was in fact crafted by the same artist who sang in the proto-Asian Underground hit “Ever So Lonely“.…
April 24, 2017
Mio Fou: Mio Fou (1984)
Just look at that album cover. Mio Fou’s self-titled debut has an album cover that has fascinated me to no end. You see,…
April 21, 2017
Ric Kaestner: Music For Massage (1982)
What a lovely hour of music. What’s else is there to say about Ric Kaestner’s criminally unknown Music For Massage? “an hour of soothing music…
April 19, 2017