Hiroki Okano: 19871990 (1991)
Hiroki Okano’s debut 19871990 is startling in more ways than one. A trailblazing stew of new form Japanese ambient and new age minimal music…
April 10, 2017
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Michael Karoli & Polly Eltes: Deluge (1984)
Even for me, what I’m going to write next seems something out of a fever dream. Polly Eltes, elite, English model/actress seen…
April 7, 2017
Koharu Kisaragi: 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (1986)
Koharu, Koharu, wherefore are thou Koharu? That’s the big question rolling around in my head. Koharu Kisaragi’s 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (which translates to: Urban Life) isn’t…
March 31, 2017
Urban Dance: Urban Dance (1985)
Even for Haruomi Hosono, Urban Dance is a rare bird. Let me step back. After listening to Friends of Earth and Love,…
March 29, 2017
Yoshio Suzuki: Touch of Rain (1986)
Yoshio Suzuki writes in a way that breaks up my style of writing. You see, I have a ritual I go through…
March 27, 2017
Mioko Yamaguchi: Moon-Light Princess (1983)
Do you know what I love about Mioko Yamaguchi? That no matter what she attempts, she finds a way to actually do…
March 17, 2017
Flüght: Flüght (1982)
As much as one tries to distance themselves from being just another mp3 blog, one has to realize that one is operating in a…
March 15, 2017
dip in the pool: Retinae (1989)
Paris in the winter must be a whole lot different than any other time of the year. Yes, the feeling of romance…
March 13, 2017
Sławomir Kulpowicz ft. Czesław Niemen: Samarpan (1987)
A true giant of Polish Pop music comes out of the wilderness to join up with a Polish Jazz giant who purposely…
March 10, 2017
Macias: Regreso a Valencia (1988)
One of my favorite albums from one of my favorite record label series. Largely piano-based, José Luis Macias’s Regreso a Valencia (Returning to Valencia) touched on…
March 8, 2017
Marju Kuut & Uku Kuut: Zuke (1992)
Funk can sometimes come from the unlikeliest of places. Take for example: Hollywood. Hollywood, and America’s West Coast one could argue, has…
March 6, 2017
Takumi: Meat the Beat (1983)
Tokyo, Berlin, London and other points in between, are the locales touched by Meat the Beat an intriguing work from surprisingly prolific (yet largely unknown) Japanese musician…
March 3, 2017