Mick Karn: Titles (1982)
It’s hard for me to separate Mick’s past from the work you’ll hear in Titles. Still impossibly underrated and unaccounted for — compared…
February 20, 2018
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Oscilation Circuit: Série Réflexion 1 (1984)
Here’s another worthy album for the canon of Japanese minimalism, Oscilation Circuit’s Série Réflexion 1. Released in 1984, by Sound Process, ostensibly a new…
February 16, 2018
Grupo Zambo: Bahia, Grupo Zambo (1976)
A mix of white and black. A mix of religion and spirituality. A mix of cultures, class, and race. Brazilian Bahian musical…
February 13, 2018
Various Artists: Demo Tape 1 (1986)
Who can argue that an apple falls far from its tree after listening to Demo Tape 1? Demo Tape 1 was a compilation of…
February 9, 2018
Gabriela: Altas Planicies (1991)
Gabriela Marrone’s Altas Planicies is the very quiet work of a true pioneer. Born of rural, Argentinian descent, but cosmopolitan via adolescent…
February 6, 2018
Mix: 8. Dreaming Of A Dream (Walearic Japan – Vol. 2)
We can affect change or be an effect of change. These ideas, proposed wonderfully in Charles Demuth’s Spring, moved me to take up a…
February 2, 2018
Jorge Degas & Marcelo Salazar: Muxima (1987)
Tread lightly, oh you who hate slap bass. Jorge Degas and Marcelo Salazar’s positively radiant Muxima has only two roles pushing all songs…
January 30, 2018
Yoko Ueno: Voices (1993)
What a perfect image. Even William Blake must be blushing at Masumi Hara’s otherworldly portrait for Yoko Ueno’s Voices. Feminine angels (bearing…
January 26, 2018
Chinatsu Kuzuu: The City In The Sea (1991)
My mind races trying to describe Chinatsu Kuzuu’s music. Should I share with y’all my first impressions? First, I hear the voice…
January 23, 2018
Kaoru Todoroki: カルビンおじさんの 私生活 (Uncle Calvin’s Private Life) (1985)
First off, I have to apologize for the lo-fi quality of this recording. Unless your name is Masaki Eguti or you are…
January 19, 2018
Re Niliu: Caravi (1988)
Tradition is such a double-edge sword. In the hands of the orthodoxy, tradition can be used as a bludgeon, meant to remind…
January 16, 2018
Gontiti (ゴンチチ): Legacy Of Madam Q (1987)
I hate to say it but Osaka guitar duo Gontiti (pronounced Gon-Chi-Chi) really nailed it when they called themselves the creators of…
January 12, 2018