Syoko: Soil (1986)
Everytime I put on Syoko’s Soil I have to do a double-take. Seriously? The music coming out of my headphones right now was made…
April 28, 2017
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Büdi Siebert: Hmm… (1983)
New age records shouldn’t sound (or look!) as fun as German Büdi Siebert’s Hmm…, but I wager no one ever asked Büdi…
April 26, 2017
Sheila Chandra: Quiet! (1984)
It still boggles my mind that Quiet! was in fact crafted by the same artist who sang in the proto-Asian Underground hit “Ever So Lonely“.…
April 24, 2017
Mio Fou: Mio Fou (1984)
Just look at that album cover. Mio Fou’s self-titled debut has an album cover that has fascinated me to no end. You see,…
April 21, 2017
Ric Kaestner: Music For Massage (1982)
What a lovely hour of music. What’s else is there to say about Ric Kaestner’s criminally unknown Music For Massage? “an hour of soothing music…
April 19, 2017
Yas Kaz: Shinran/Path To Purity (1987)
Originally recorded to soundtrack Rentarō Mikuni’s Jury Prize-winning Cannes film festival “Shinran: Path to Purity”, Yas Kaz’s own Shinran/Path To Purity does well to exist…
April 17, 2017
Hiroki Okano: 19871990 (1991)
Hiroki Okano’s debut 19871990 is startling in more ways than one. A trailblazing stew of new form Japanese ambient and new age minimal music…
April 10, 2017
Michael Karoli & Polly Eltes: Deluge (1984)
Even for me, what I’m going to write next seems something out of a fever dream. Polly Eltes, elite, English model/actress seen…
April 7, 2017
Koharu Kisaragi: 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (1986)
Koharu, Koharu, wherefore are thou Koharu? That’s the big question rolling around in my head. Koharu Kisaragi’s 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (which translates to: Urban Life) isn’t…
March 31, 2017
Yoshio Suzuki: Touch of Rain (1986)
Yoshio Suzuki writes in a way that breaks up my style of writing. You see, I have a ritual I go through…
March 27, 2017
Mix: 3. What Do You Do When It’s Spring?
In a way, rebirth is exactly what my third mix is about. Taking cues from various feelings springtime evokes, I wanted to compile a set…
March 20, 2017
Mioko Yamaguchi: Moon-Light Princess (1983)
Do you know what I love about Mioko Yamaguchi? That no matter what she attempts, she finds a way to actually do…
March 17, 2017