Yoshio Ojima: Une Collection Des Chainons II: Music For Spiral (1988)
When I originally wrote my piece on Yoshio Ojima’s groundbreaking work Une Collection des Chainons I, I couldn’t think of why omitted…
December 22, 2017
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Toshifumi Hinata: Story (1987)
I wish I had a great way to describe the beauty of Toshifumi Hinata’s music, more so, the beautiful music you’ll find…
December 15, 2017
Takashi Kokubo: Get At The Wave (1987)
Just reading about Takashi Kokubo makes one feel decidedly less accomplished. Since the early ‘80s, Edokko Takashi has been knee-deep in the…
December 8, 2017
G. B. Beckers: Walkman (1982)
Günther Beckers music has a perfect word for it: Gesamtkunstwerk. Gesamtkunstwerk is an interdisciplinary artistic work combining various disciplines — music, painting, poetry…
December 5, 2017
Masahide Sakuma & dip in the pool: 黒いドレスの女 OST (1987)
This is such a rare album, for a truly forgotten movie. Masahide Sakuma and dip in the pool’s soundtrack for 黒いドレスの女 (otherwise…
December 1, 2017
Thomas Almqvist: The Journey (1980)
A personal favorite of mine, not because it’s his greatest work — I’d wager more people expect the late, great Swedish guitar…
November 28, 2017
Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora 1987 (1987)
There’s something about fall that makes me play Hiroshi Yoshimura’s music much more often. On prior albums like Green, A・I・R (Air In Resort),…
November 14, 2017
Takami Hasegawa (長谷川孝水): L’Ecume Des Jours (日々の泡) (1983)
These are the kind of stories that make me smile. Truth be told, there is desperately little story out there to tell…
November 10, 2017
Pictures: Pictures (1983)
I’m still floored that such an album like Pictures exists and that it exists in such an arrested state of discovery. In…
November 3, 2017
Fashion: Fabrique (1982)
One of the ultimate statements in sleaze. Some Discog commenter put it better than I ever would: “If cocaine were music, this…
October 27, 2017
南佳孝, 観, 太田建: 882 Studio (1985)
These are the kinds of records that just mean the world to me. They’re the ones so full of potential, yet profoundly…
October 24, 2017
Andreas Vollenweider: …Behind the Gardens-Behind the Wall-Under the Tree… (1981)
…Behind the – Behind the Wall – Under the Tree…or right here, after a long scroll to the bottom of this post…
October 18, 2017