Jun Kawabata (川端潤): 『Absolute Elsewhere』(1997)
As I start to look ahead, toward future travels, today I’m touching back on an album and an idea that I felt…
April 21, 2023
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Nino Buoncore: Una Città Tra Le Mani (1988)
If y’all can count on one thing about me, it’s on this: I’m unafraid to promote adult music. Years of listening has…
April 18, 2023
Lee Jung-Sun (이정선): 9집 雨 (1990)
“Wherever I’ve been and gone, wherever I have gone, the blues are all the same…”, truer words could not exist to place…
March 21, 2023
Yukiyo Nakamura (中村幸代): The Arch Of The Heavens (1994)
It’s not often you recognize “genius” straight away, yet it’s not often you get to hear such precocious brilliance of the likes…
March 17, 2023
Ivor Cutler: Jammy Smears (1976)
“Now and again, we meet for tea. This is our universe: cups of tea. We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me.”…
March 14, 2023
Chika Ueda (上田知華): いつも 2人で (Always 2 People) (1994)
You know, some days I’m grateful I have a platform to highlight music that others might pass on. It’s why you get…
December 2, 2022
Carioca (カリオカ): Pale Moon (ペール・ムーン) (1984)
Who knows where the time goes? Because, apparently, lately it’s me. Through some fated collusion of circumstance and consequence, both personal and…
November 23, 2022
Kim Doo Soo (김두수): 보헤미안 (Bohemian) (1991)
Here’s something that not many are afraid to admit: a lot of us hate to be lost in the wilderness. It’s its…
November 1, 2022
Miguel Braga: Ritual (1990)
I’ll be one of the first to admit this: intriguing album designs draw me in. Even in the age of digital artwork,…
October 25, 2022
Anna Banana (アンナ・バナナ): 大きな絵 (Big Picture) (1991)
She didn’t have to do this, yet, nevertheless, she persisted. That’s the refrain bopping in my head as I go through Anna…
October 7, 2022
Endeavour (民藝復興): 極樂 (Elysium) (1992)
There’s a reason that art can transcend time, space, and vocabulary. It does so because it can speak to something innate born…
October 4, 2022
Masahide Sakuma (佐久間正英): In A Garden (創造の庭で)
Six years. Has it really been that long? Yes, it has been nearly six years since I first wrote about the late,…
September 30, 2022