FOND/SOUND

Album August 7, 2025 by Diego Olivas Various Artists: Garden Path (Ryoondo-Tea Compilation) (2000)

I’ll make this argument: if one wants to understand an aspect of “Japanese” sensibility, one must experience the tea ceremony — sadō…

August 7, 2025

I feel like every time I write about video game music, I should preface my review with a disclaimer: I’m not a…

July 24, 2025

For someone like me, whose whole site is dedicated to writing about works in the past tense, there’s something especially poignant about…

July 3, 2025

I don’t know about you, but one way I try to really understand music—or at least those behind its creation—is to dig…

June 12, 2025

Album April 10, 2025 by Diego Olivas Maya Hayashi (林マヤ): Maya (林マヤ) (1991)

Much like many of you, once you’re done catching up with Maya Hayashi’s life, you’ll come to the same conclusion I did:…

April 10, 2025

Album March 20, 2025 by Diego Olivas Nazoo: Dear Heavens, Children In His Twilight (1994)

Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself: “Why am I doing this?” As I keep scouring through myriad broken links, countless blank…

March 20, 2025

Maybe it’s something about myself, but I tend to feel inspired by the music of those who aren’t necessarily solely inspired by…

January 30, 2025

Sometimes you hear the future and you fear it. Yet, sometimes you fear the future and you hear… what exactly? Change.

January 16, 2025

Much like many of you, the more time one spends in nature, the more one begins to hear a certain musicality in…

December 19, 2024

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from a recent trip to Japan, it’s this: I might be too ahead of the curve.…

November 28, 2024

Do you feel and see it? Isn’t “Spooky Season” unofficially around us? Whenever a certain air descends on most of us, I…

October 24, 2024

Album October 17, 2024 by Diego Olivas Kuniko Fukushima (福島邦子): 夢幻 (Mugen) (1982)

With fall fully in season, I think now is a great time to turn over a few leaves I’ve neglected. Lately, my…

October 17, 2024

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