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When autumn comes rolling in, I always welcome a fresh wind that shifts my focus elsewhere, towards music with a more folkloric bent. And for some reason, I’m always surprised to be unsurprised by how much there is to harvest from the Irish or Gaelic diaspora. As leaves start to turn and a certain seasonal…
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It’s pretty hard to write about Fukushima’s Karak without not waxing a bit nostalgic. Over the course of two records – Silent Days (サイレント) and Flow (フロウ) – all the music they created hovers around a certain mood and a certain period. For me, their tracks like “明日ヲ見ル丘” and “ゆめのスウプ” instantly conjure up all these…
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Some of you might not realize it but It appears that lately I’ve been exploring a bit of musical nostalgia. For me, it’s that sweet spot in the mid ‘90s when the rise of a harder form of rap music sort of “disrupted” the whole music industry, causing it to further gentrify itself, compartmentalizing whole…
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Sometimes I have to catch myself. Do I really want to go down the rabbit hole, searching for information…not for some brilliant bit of music…but for…a well-off music production company? If you, like me, have a bunch of records with literally no-name behind who created them, what do you do when you’re staring down Toyo…
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I don’t know about you but for me certain albums are colored by memory. Whenever I put on Ricardo Fabini’s Cidade De Cristal it brings me back to a certain difficult time I had to go through. On those days where I felt a bit aimless, a bit withdrawn, all over the place – yet…
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Looking back, it feels like my relationship with Endy goes back more than recently. Trolling through my Discogs orders I see that my oldest purchase from the man behind Groove Bunny Records was in 2017 – a copy of Mich Live’s Message From Heart which y’all finally got a chance to listen to in 2019.…
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It’s late summer again. Like before, I’m drawn to music that evokes feelings found at the corners of each such season. And in today’s case, it’s that pull of the sea (or a life aquatic) that reminds us that life keeps moving, as much as we keep exiting, stage left. It’s something you hear in…
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It’s not entirely lost on me how improbable this conversation is. I say this because nearly half a decade ago, in 2018, when I originally wrote about, Ken-ichiro Isoda, the person I’m speaking to today, I never realistically thought he’d be the one to bring me back, full-circle, on the heel’s of SRRD’s reissue of…
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Some artists make whole careers out of reinventing themselves. The best ones, you name it from the late David Bowie, to Joni Mitchell or Tom Waits, always leave you guessing just what they’re going to do next. The ones that try too hard, which shall remain nameless, always leave you wondering why they just can’t…
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Find your space in the pocket. If ever there was a phrase that I’ve been trying to hammer home lately, on the blog, it’s that. It’s about exploring the work of musicians who moved things around, found ways to pick at frayed threads and bind them together, to build their own work. China’s Säju is…
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