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Mix December 11, 2018 by Klas Trollius 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

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Mix December 7, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Mix December 4, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album of the Month November 16, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album November 13, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album of the Month November 8, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Mix November 6, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album October 26, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album of the Month October 23, 2018 by Diego Olivas 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

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Album of the Month October 19, 2018 by Diego Olivas Milky Way: Quarter Diary (1989)

Oh, the joys and pains of promoting private press records. First of all, a huge debt of gratitude is extended to one…

October 19, 2018

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Album October 16, 2018 by Diego Olivas Jo Lemaire + Flouze: Pigmy World (1981)

An album that was born to be loved but remains surprisingly unfound, is the worst kind of album to introduce a band…

October 16, 2018

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Album of the Month October 12, 2018 by Diego Olivas Tôsha Suihô: 四季の笛 (Die Vier Jahreszeiten In Kyoto) (1983)

Certain albums linger in your mind for certain reasons. Tôsha Suihô’s 四季の笛 (Die Vier Jahreszeiten In Kyoto) or Four Seasons In Kyoto is one that…

October 12, 2018