FOND/SOUND

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Album October 4, 2019 by Giacomo Lee Haruo Kubota, Yasuharu Konishi, Tetsutaro Sakurai: The Historic Recordings From The “Girl Girl Girl” Radio Show Volume 3 (1995)

Guest post by Giacomo Lee. You’d think being in one of the biggest cult Japanese bands of the ’90s would make one…

October 4, 2019

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Interview September 27, 2019 by Diego Olivas Interview: Naoki Asai

Life sure has it mysteries. Years ago, I encountered Naoki Asai’s gorgeous Aba · Heidi and had to share an album I…

September 27, 2019

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Album August 13, 2019 by Diego Olivas Júlio Pereira: Miradouro (1987)

This might sound like yet that same old story: Noted folkloric or jazz muso discovers drum machines, synths, and samplers, proceeds to…

August 13, 2019

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Album of the Month August 2, 2019 by Diego Olivas Hiroya Minakuchi + Missing Link (水口博也): Dolphin (1993)

There’s a moment in Hiroya Minakuchi + Missing Link’s Dolphin that never ceases to take my breath away: a minute into “The…

August 2, 2019

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Album of the Month April 5, 2019 by Diego Olivas Everything Play: Everything Play (1992)

As winter gives way to springtime, I thought it would be nice to revisit our Japanese post-New Age friends at Everything Play.…

April 5, 2019

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Album of the Month March 1, 2019 by Diego Olivas Mieko Shimizu ( 清水三恵子): 桃天夢-Totem- (1988)

Totem proves there’s more than one genius behind the Shimizu family tree. Rightfully, it gives you a peek into the deeply brilliant…

March 1, 2019

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Album of the Month February 26, 2019 by Diego Olivas Mekong Zoo: Minimal Dance (1995)

Let’s do things recursively. Mekong Zoo’s Minimal Dance is exactly as its written — dance music with minimal gestures. Minimal Dance is…

February 26, 2019

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Album January 29, 2019 by Diego Olivas Thierry Matioszek: Matioszek (1982)

How do you portray someone who is unrepresentable? French composer, artist, and songwriter Thierry Matioszek’s Matioszek provides a distorted view of the…

January 29, 2019

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Album July 31, 2018 by Diego Olivas Lino Capra Vaccina: L’Attesa (1992)

In a not-so-recent interview with Vice Italy, Lino Capra Vaccina laments that out of his recently reissued work we’re missing most of…

July 31, 2018

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Album of the Month July 24, 2018 by Diego Olivas Chagrin D’Amour: Chagrin D’Amour (1982)

Who knows what would have happened in France if New Yorker Valli Timbert hadn’t met filmmaker Philippe Bourgoin, at some Chelsea Hotel,…

July 24, 2018

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Album July 20, 2018 by Diego Olivas Paradigm Shift: The Rain Child And The River King (1986)

Seems like the perfect time to sneak this one through ye olde FOND/SOUND blog. Led by Makoto Matsushita, proud creator of one…

July 20, 2018

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Album of the Month July 17, 2018 by Diego Olivas Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages On Desert Sand (1987)

It would be easy to supplant whatever I stated in my post for Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba and simply transport it here.…

July 17, 2018

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