Yuki Takao (高尾有紀): 水の迷宮 / The Water Labyrinth (1991)
Forgive me if I’m repeating myself, but if I haven’t said it bears I’m saying it now: sometimes I (just like each…
September 2, 2022
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Mitsuhiro (光氷櫓): 霞と霧 / Haze × Fog (1995)
You know, sometimes as I choose to share a bit of music, what strikes me to do might be things that might…
August 26, 2022
Altay Veloso: Paixão de D’Artagnan (1988)
As you all may know now, “late summer” is more of a vibe than a season. It’s in between times when hot…
August 16, 2022
Catherine Le Forestier: Music Of Aziza (1980)
You know, sometimes I’m as much of a wanderer as you are. There are stories I’d love to really tell but (try…
August 2, 2022
Santi Vega: Isla Mujeres (1992)
Traveling. That’s all I can think about now. I won’t bore you with too much autobiography but life has been quite stressful…
July 26, 2022
Keishi Urata (浦田恵司): 世界の果て (Final Frontier) (1989)
Talk about worlds within worlds. Isn’t that the essence of Keishi Urata’s 世界の果て (Final Frontier)? It’s about combining electronically-imagined sound atmospheres with…
July 1, 2022
Vital Lima: Vital (1990)
Once again I turn towards an old love of mine, the music of Brazil. Where else can one get that special emotion…
June 28, 2022
Amahoro (アマホロ): Flowering Of The Spirit (いのちの花) (1995)
As I fish my increasingly puzzled brain, trying to suss out words for Amahoro’s Flowering Of The Spirit (いのちの花), I go back…
May 13, 2022
Shinsuke Honda (本多信介): 渓流 (Keiryū) (1985)
A wiser person than me once said: serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint or he that plants trees, loves others beside himself.…
May 6, 2022
David Oliver: Hope For La Roo (1984)
It’s not often that I review something that has me digging through my old piano-playing notes, yet here I am, looking for…
May 3, 2022
Yoshihiro Kanno (菅野由弘): サッポロファクトリー環境音楽コラージュ (Music In Sapporo Factory) (1993)
What exactly gives life to any inanimate object? Is it the way it looks? Is it the way we interact with it?…
April 15, 2022
Liu Xing (刘星): 無所事 (To Do Nothing) (1992)
You know, sometimes the struggle is simply trying to quantify how unique something is. I’ve been listening to Liu Xing’s 無所事 (To…
April 12, 2022