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
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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
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
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