Criola (クリオラ): Winter Songbook (1992)
I have a confession to make: I didn’t quite “get” Criola’s Winter Songbook, for a long time. Looking back, though, this season,…
December 21, 2018
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Year: 2018
90 records
Various Artists: We Wish You A Merry Christmas (1983), Yen Records Compilation
Celebrating Christmas a bit early? Well, it seems I am (or for those stumble into this post in the future), you might…
December 18, 2018
Lyu Hongjun (劉宏軍): 大地の詩 (Songs Of The Earth) (1988)
There’s a palpable meditation hovering around Lyu Hong-Jun’s masterwork 大地の詩, otherwise known as “Songs Of The Earth” or “Earth Songs”. Recorded for pioneering…
December 14, 2018
Mix: 20. Luftsånger: A Walk With Kindred Spirits (Guest Mix by Klas Trollius)
Guest Mix by Klas Trollius Editor’s Note: I thought about what FOND/SOUND reader Klas states below: “connected to place-making (by creating a certain atmosphere,…
December 11, 2018
Mix: 19. JAPANESE AMBIENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, NEW AGE & HEALING MUSIC 1980-1993 (VOL. 4, AIR)
Illustration by Laura Gomez I usually don’t gravitate towards writing about something I didn’t include in a mix but I just have to…
December 7, 2018
Mix. 18: Poems Of Five Mountains
That intersection between organic and inorganic has been something I’ve been chewing on lately. What makes something one or the other? I’d…
December 4, 2018
Ryokyu Endo: Song Of Pure Land (1994)
So very lovely. Forgive me if some of you are expecting something more experimental, electronic, or whatever else now. Me, I just…
November 16, 2018
Windsor Riley: The Move Of Life (1988)
“Endlessly moving, always alive” no better words can describe this album than Windsor Riley’s own. There’s no way around it, The Move Of…
November 13, 2018
R. Carlos Nakai with Wind Travelin’ Band, Shonosuke Ohkura, Oki Kano: Island Of Bows (1994)
Streams of understanding, via spiritual land bridges, or how a Navajo-Ute found a musical connection with Japanese sonorities/tradition. Somehow, I feel a…
November 8, 2018
Mix: 17. JAPANESE AMBIENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, NEW AGE & HEALING MUSIC 1980-1993 (VOL. 3, FIRE)
Illustration by Laura Gomez By fits and starts I struggled, for some reason, to create this latest mix for NTS. I had so…
November 6, 2018
Michiko Akao: Yokobue (1983)
I’m afraid people might get the wrong impression when they listen to the opening track from Michiko Akao’s Yokobue. What’s there to…
October 26, 2018
Ric Kaestner: Music For Massage II (1987)
Trying to revisit something I wrote about and remember quite vividly, at the time I wrote it, presents two opportunities: the first…
October 23, 2018