The Milky Way: Summertime Love Song (1979)
Pull out your surfboard, put some sangria on ice, and really enjoy this one. A surprisingly unknown masterpiece, and a rare, rare,…
September 1, 2017
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Water Melon Group: Cool Music (1984)
It almost seems like I really shouldn’t have to write that much about the Water Melon Group. If you don’t know the…
August 30, 2017
Regrets: Agathe (1985)
Entirely slept-on, to the point that it still boggles my mind how with all the recent reissues and rediscoveries of artists like…
August 25, 2017
Paolo Modugno: Le Bala Et La Mouche (1994)
Man, what a world to we live in. Just this year Italy’s Archeo Recordings reissued Paolo Modugno’s intriguing debut Brise D’Automne. Once…
August 23, 2017
Joachim Witt: Moonlight Nights (1985)
If anyone knows me, they’d know this album forms a perfect storm of what I dig about music. I love it when…
August 18, 2017
Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh: Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh (1986)
Hard to describe what’s going on in Triangulus and Björn J:son Lindh. The closest analog I could think of would be what…
August 16, 2017
Kunio Muramatsu: Green Water (1983)
I so had another post in mind for today, but Kunio Muramatsu’s Green Water spoke to me and said: “hold that powder…
August 11, 2017
Katsutoshi Morizono: 4:17 p.m. (1985)
There’s an appeal to Katsutoshi Morizono’s 4:17 p.m. that can only be heightened, or fully appreciated, during summer, our current time of…
August 9, 2017
Hajime Mizoguchi: Halfinch Dessert (1986)
These are the things that surprise sometimes. I went into researching some background story behind Hajime Mizoguchi’s deeply affecting Halfinch Dessert and…
August 4, 2017
Alain Chamfort: Amour, Année Zéro
I almost hate myself for sharing this. It’s like eating a slice of sublime dark chocolate cake, followed by a full…
August 2, 2017
Motohiko Hamase: #Notes Of Forestry (1988)
What’s with Japanese session bass players? Yoshio Suzuki, Tsugutoshi Goto, Hirobumi Suzuki, etc. and now Motohiko Hamase, all at one point or…
July 28, 2017
Ritmia: Forse Il Mare (1986)
Nothing makes one cringe more than when someone tries to “modernize” traditional music. The issue isn’t with modernization but with trying to…
July 26, 2017