Yukihiro Fukutomi (福富幸宏): POST ( ポスト) (1993)
Listening to Yukihiro Fukutomi’s music takes me back to a different time. It reminds me of the first time I encountered Japanese…
April 19, 2024
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Forest (森林): Neutral Point (中性点)(1991)
Often, if possible, I make an effort to read original liner notes to any of the albums I share. I do so…
February 6, 2024
Summer Lei (雷光夏): 我是雷光夏 (I Am Lei Guangxia) (1995)
Doesn’t it feel like sometimes all we need is a little push? When I hear Summer Lei’s debut, 我我是雷光夏 (I Am Lei…
January 16, 2024
Tadashi Namba Featuring Rie Miyazawa • Takeshi Itoh: Tokyo Elevator Girl (東京エレベーターガール) (1992)
When I wrote about Rie Miyazawa, I knew I’d have to come back to share another interesting side trip she’d take. In…
December 5, 2023
Jean-Louis Murat: Cheyenne Autumn (1989)
As the year begins to draw to a close, my mind goes back to some of the people we lost this year.…
November 21, 2023
Mix: 80. Kitchen. Label (Guest Mix + Interview with Ricks Ang)
15 years can fly by. Yet, 19 years can seem like a blink. You see, it was in fact 19 years ago…
November 14, 2023
Summerhaze: Summerhaze (1987)
When autumn comes rolling in, I always welcome a fresh wind that shifts my focus elsewhere, towards music with a more folkloric…
October 10, 2023
Toyo B.G.M. Corp.: Concentration: 作品 Vol.1 – 集中力がつく音楽 (1992)
Sometimes I have to catch myself. Do I really want to go down the rabbit hole, searching for information…not for some brilliant…
September 29, 2023
Ricardo Fabini: Cidade De Cristal (1992)
I don’t know about you but for me certain albums are colored by memory. Whenever I put on Ricardo Fabini’s Cidade De…
September 26, 2023
Mix: 79. Groove Bunny Records (Guest Mix + Interview with Cheng “Endy” Chen)
Looking back, it feels like my relationship with Endy goes back more than recently. Trolling through my Discogs orders I see that…
September 19, 2023
Hitoshi Komuro (小室等) YONAGUNI 与那国 (1990)
It’s late summer again. Like before, I’m drawn to music that evokes feelings found at the corners of each such season. And…
September 8, 2023
cocu* (コキュウ*): aromatica (アロマティカ) (1998)
Some artists make whole careers out of reinventing themselves. The best ones, you name it from the late David Bowie, to Joni…
August 25, 2023