Hajime Mizoguchi: Halfinch Dessert (1986)
These are the things that surprise sometimes. I went into researching some background story behind Hajime Mizoguchi’s deeply affecting Halfinch Dessert and…
August 4, 2017
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African Head Charge: Songs of Praise (1990)
We might not all be able to know the way to get on that righteous path but there are signals that could…
July 11, 2017
Juan Martin: Painter In Sound ft. Mark Isham (1986)
Simply sublime. What else can you say? From the man who literally wrote the definitive word on Flamenco technique, comes a work showing…
June 9, 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
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
Flávio Venturini: Nascente (1981)
There are few albums that just put me in a special place. Flávio Venturini’s Nascente is one of them. When it’s on,…
April 4, 2017
Pierre Barouh: Le Pollen (1982)
News travels so quickly now that it’s hard to keep up with the cycles of life. Word of Pierre Barouh’s passing, at…
February 17, 2017
Ray Barretto: Rican/Struction (1979)
Peak power. Few albums have moments that just leave me breathless. Drop a needle, or seek to, any track on Ray Barretto’s Rican/Struction,…
January 9, 2017
Seigén Ono: Seigén (1984)
I‘m still struck by this release. It’s hard to realize, but Seigén Ono was only 26 years old when he created his debut…
November 18, 2016
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock (1991)
Belatedly, it appears that the best is yet to come. Truly no other month can be as trying, and as most worthy…
March 11, 2015
(Album of the Month) January 2015: Kate Bush – The Dreaming (1982)
Kate Bush – 1982 You know January, a month so long, a month that appears so taxing at first, whether temporal or…
January 30, 2015
(Album of the Month) December 2014: Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (1978)
Kate Bush – 1978 Its taking me a while to suss out how I was going to give due diligence to an…
January 12, 2015