Album Album of the Month May 22, 2025 by Diego Olivas Hideo Hasegawa (長谷川英郎): メディテーション ブラックホール (Meditation Black Hole) (1998) Let no one tell you different: describing ambient or so-called “environmental” music can sometimes feel like more of an art than a… May 22, 2025
Album Album December 19, 2024 by Diego Olivas Masafumi Nanatsutani (七ッ谷正文): Water Planet 3 Night 奈良県吉野郡 山上川のせせらぎ (2006) Much like many of you, the more time one spends in nature, the more one begins to hear a certain musicality in… December 19, 2024
Album Album of the Month September 5, 2024 by Diego Olivas Planet Scale (Kazuo Nogawa / Seiichi Hoshino) (野川和夫 / 星野精一): Music For An Observatory Symphonic Scenes (環境音楽 JRタワー展望室 タワー・スリーエイト) (2006) Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we remember our past. As summer continues winding down and vacation time dries up, I’ve been… September 5, 2024
Album Album September 29, 2023 by Diego Olivas 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
Album Album of the Month August 25, 2023 by Diego Olivas 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
Album Album of the Month April 21, 2023 by Diego Olivas 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
Album Album August 5, 2022 by Diego Olivas Mizue Mino (三野瑞枝): Planetaria Sound[蟹座](1993) If there’s one thing I know about my sign…it’s that it’s (pardon my language) all bullshit. I know, spoken like a true… August 5, 2022
Album 音 Album July 29, 2022 by Diego Olivas Tomoyuki Hayashi (林 知行): カラーメッセージブルー (Color Message Blue) (1993) Blue. What does the color “blue” sound like? I don’t believe that’s a question I (or others) easily answer. Barriers to sensation,… July 29, 2022
Album Album of the Month April 15, 2022 by Diego Olivas Yoshihiro Kanno (菅野由弘): サッポロファクトリー環境音楽コラージュ (Music In Sapporo Factory) (1993) What exactly gives life to any inanimate object? Is it the way it looks? Is it the way we interact with it?… April 15, 2022
Album Album October 1, 2021 by Diego Olivas Junichi Kamiyama (神山純一): Aqualy Dew (水の音楽) (1993) You’re probably getting tired of reading this but….here’s another big thank you to someone else: here’s one for Austin from Incidental Music… October 1, 2021
Album 音 Album of the Month September 21, 2021 by Diego Olivas Pacini: Finalmente (1995) “I have aimed at creating with my work, a music at one with nature. Nature is melodic within itself, without abstaining from… September 21, 2021
Mix 音 Mix May 18, 2021 by Diego Olivas Mix: 53. Thoughts Of Zen (Ambient, New Age, & Environmental Music Of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China: 1986-2000) It is with great fanfare that I readily admit that much which I don’t know: I admit, that much like you, I’m… May 18, 2021