Kohsei Morimoto (森本浩正): カオス・ゾーン (Chaos Zone) (1990)
Put on your headphones. Put on and listen to this album. Spatial audio. Ambisonics. 3-D, virtual sound. There are many words to…
January 24, 2020
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Doug Smith: Order Of Magnitude (1990)
Time for another palette cleanser. You already know mine: folk music. Doug Smith’s Order Of Magnitude is more of that same vein.…
January 21, 2020
Michio Mamiya (間宮芳生): Grave of the Fireflies Image Album (火垂るの墓 イメージ・アルバム集) (1987)
Right off the bat, I promise this review will be spoiler free. However, in this age of increasing troubling times, this seems…
January 17, 2020
Terese De Sio: Sindarella Suite (1988)
There’s something I really admire about Naples’ own Teresa De Sio’s way of thinking. When I went around digging through interviews to…
January 14, 2020
Yuki Saito (斉藤 由貴): Love (1991)
I have a confession to make. I have a distinct aversion to “girl” singers. I like my male singers to sound like…
January 10, 2020
Andy Davis: Clevedon Pier (1989)
The changing of decades always seem to introduce truly amazing albums that fall through the cracks. Be it because they are caught…
January 7, 2020
Various Artists: A GRP Christmas Collection (1988)
Don’t you just hate the holidays? Don’t answer that. If anything this time of the year teaches us is that we need…
December 24, 2019
Masatsugu Shinozaki (篠崎正嗣): A Roar Of The Tiger (1992)
Winter heat from an unlikely source. Perhaps I’m showing my bias as a violinist, but I have to share another of my…
December 20, 2019
Steve Kindler: Automatic Writing (1985)
Let’s do things in reverse. Let’s revisit the work of violinist Steve Kindler. Perhaps better known for his work with John McLaughlin…
December 18, 2019
Yukie Nishimura (西村由紀江): L’espoir (～レスポワール～) (1989)
I told you things were going to get real here. Let’s get intimate. Let’s get closer to the work of Yukie Nishimura.…
December 13, 2019
Carla Bley (with Steve Swallow): Night-glo (1985)
I’ll be completely honest. Lately, it’s been getting harder to carve out time to write for this blog. After a long moment…
December 11, 2019
Mix: 35. Japanese Healing Music
Certain things aren’t lost on me. Whenever I look at my time slot at LYL Radio I feel a sense of responsibility.…
December 6, 2019