Säju (サージュ): Säju (サージュ) (1997)
Find your space in the pocket. If ever there was a phrase that I’ve been trying to hammer home lately, on the…
August 22, 2023
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Tomoki Kanda (神田朋樹): 「Interstellar Interlude」(2012)
Sometimes, I think we’re all in need of some kind of palette cleanser. At the cusp of summer, the urge is to…
June 9, 2023
Sha’aban Yahya: Return To Jogja (1992)
You know, sometimes you’ve got to step back and realize that there’s only so much thread to pull at. It’s not ideal,…
June 6, 2023
Yang Xiao-lin (楊小琳): 禧樂 (I Take You There) (1999)
The more I listen to Yang Xiao-lin’s 禧樂 (I Take You There), the more I’m impressed by how malleable folklore is. In…
May 16, 2023
Mix: 75. Deep Valley (幽谷)
When I went about curating my latest mix for LYL Radio, a phrase kept guiding me forward: “atmosphere as culture”. If any…
May 3, 2023
Jun Kawabata (川端潤): 『Absolute Elsewhere』(1997)
As I start to look ahead, toward future travels, today I’m touching back on an album and an idea that I felt…
April 21, 2023
Mélange (メランジュ): Passion To Poison (1995)
My apologies to all those readers expecting a well-researched entry about Mélange’s Passion To Poison. It appears I might fail in myriad…
April 11, 2023
Kazuo Uehara (上原和夫 ): ストレス解消の音楽 (Bright Spring) (1990)
How does one bridge the span between our past and an uncertain future? If you can put yourself inside the mind of…
March 24, 2023
Yukiyo Nakamura (中村幸代): The Arch Of The Heavens (1994)
It’s not often you recognize “genius” straight away, yet it’s not often you get to hear such precocious brilliance of the likes…
March 17, 2023
Toshiro Mitsutomi (みつとみ俊郎): Stand By Satie (スタンド・バイ・サティ) (1988)
Stand By Satie? It’s pretty hard not to, when a whole slew of musicians – in all styles and genres – have…
November 4, 2022
Joe Hisaishi (久石譲): Ano Natsu, Ichiban Shizukana Umi 『あの夏, いちばん静かな海』(1991)
Fall is something else, isn’t it? As beautiful as the season is – simply one look outside can affirm this – there’s…
October 28, 2022
Miguel Braga: Ritual (1990)
I’ll be one of the first to admit this: intriguing album designs draw me in. Even in the age of digital artwork,…
October 25, 2022