Shiho Yabuki (矢吹紫帆): New Meditation (1990)
Let’s hope this post posits something with clarity. You see, yours truly, has been mightily under the weather this week and propping…
November 22, 2019
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Kip Hanrahan: Days And Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted (1987)
American Clavé. What a name. Kip Hanrahan is one of those musicians that deserves, mightily, to be a large household name, but…
November 19, 2019
Syun (旬): Landscapes (1994)
Sometimes certain albums force you to ponder just how the heck that certain something was created. Syun’s Landscapes speaks of using fractal…
November 15, 2019
Clement/Deschamps: Wolfsong Night (1994)
There’s something I truly love about Tim Clément and Kim Deschamp’s Wolfsong Night that I can’t quite pinpoint. Atmospherically, it just puts…
October 29, 2019
Mayumi Miyata, Midori Takada: 「星雲」～サウンド・フォレスト・シリーズ (Nebula) (1987)
If we can thank the heavens for something today, it is for bringing together Mayumi Miyata and Midori Takada. Released as part…
October 18, 2019
David Friesen: Inner Voices (1987)
Here’s hoping this writeup lasts not much longer than David Friesen’s meditative Inner Voices. What exactly was David Friesen’s Inner Voices? Much…
October 15, 2019
Hiroki Miyano (宮野弘紀): D / I/ V /E /R /G /E (分岐点) (1988)
And now some jazz… *Quietly watches all my readers’ eyes glaze over*. For those who can appreciate the bigger “jazz” picture, here’s…
September 20, 2019
Zoé: Zoé (1987)
Truly no one is a prophet in their own land. Simply scroll down and look at the all Japanese superstars of boogie,…
August 23, 2019
Coati Mundi: The Former 12 Year Old Genius (1983)
Sometimes, I feel that there’s no truer saying than this one: “you can never be a prophet in your own land”. It…
August 20, 2019
Various Artists: しおのみち (Shio-No-Michi) (1991)
Forgive my roundabout way to get back to the healing music of Japan’s Awa record label. I feel like we should go…
August 16, 2019
Asiabeat: Spirit Of The People (1991)
Although the mind behind rotating Southeast Asian supergroup Asiabeat has always been gifted Malaysian percussionist (and Fulbright Scholar) Lewis Pragasam, on Spirit…
August 9, 2019
Randy Tico: Earth Dance (1990)
Don’t stop, can’t stop, the dance. Something else to fill your expanding Balearic canon: Randy Tico’s Earth Dance. Not quite jazz, world…
August 6, 2019