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
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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
Takashi Toyoda: Big Bang (1985)
Takashi Toyoda’s Big Bang promises in the back cover “total spiritual stability and stress relief” through 40-odd minutes of Japanese New Age…
July 7, 2017
Anne Dudley: Sound Stage 6 (Melodic Lightly Rhythmic Underlays) (1982)
So cool and forgotten. Very little is explored from such an integral member of the Art of Noise, that’s what makes this…
July 6, 2017
Akira Ito: Marine Flower (Science Fantasy) (1986)
There is a time in any good musician’s life when they absolutely nail down whatever they had to place. Akira Ito, one…
June 29, 2017
Steve Shehan: Arrows (1990)
Heavy, shamanic, tectonic Fourth World music from French-American composer, of Cherokee descent, Steve Shehan. Primarily a percussionist, Steve developed his own improvisational…
June 23, 2017
Dan Gibson: Harmony – Exploring Nature With Music (1989)
There are so many sides this next recording could fall under: New Age, ambient, environmental music, muzak, tone poems – I choose…
June 20, 2017
Morgan Fisher: Look At Life (1984)
I’m truly thankful I live in a world where circumstances led Londoner Morgan Fisher to visit Japan, fall in love with country,…
June 13, 2017
Juan Martin: Painter In Sound ft. Mark Isham (1986)
Simply sublime. What else can you say? From the man who literally wrote the definitive word on Flamenco technique, comes a work showing…
June 9, 2017
Mix: 4. Nuevo Aztlán
In a way, everything you do circles back to where one comes from. All my life, somehow, I felt my own lineage and ancestry steeped…
May 25, 2017
Eblen Macari: Música Para Planetarios (1987)
Every time I revisit Eblen Macari’s landmark release, Música Para Planetarios, I find something different and special about it. At times, it’s finding…
May 5, 2017
Alap Jetzer: Eternity’s Sunrise (1986)
Sun-lit, rainbow music for respite after rainy days. That’s how I would describe Alap Jetzer’s largely acoustic renditions of Hindu guru Sri…
May 1, 2017