Takashi Kokubo: Get At The Wave (1987)
Just reading about Takashi Kokubo makes one feel decidedly less accomplished. Since the early ‘80s, Edokko Takashi has been knee-deep in the…
December 8, 2017
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Tag: environmental music
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Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora 1987 (1987)
There’s something about fall that makes me play Hiroshi Yoshimura’s music much more often. On prior albums like Green, A・I・R (Air In Resort),…
November 14, 2017
Yoshiaki Ochi: Natural Sonic (1990)
Released on Wacoal Art Center’s NEWSIC label, Yoshiaki Ochi’s Natural Sonic shares some of the same magic heard in the music of…
October 13, 2017
Mitar Subotić, Goran Vejvoda: The Dreambird (1986)
Some music you discover, and some simply grabs you instantly. For me, the music of Suba, the brilliant Serbian musician Mitar Subotić,…
September 27, 2017
Steve Hiett: Down On The Road By The Beach (1983)
You can always hear music in Steve Hiett’s photography. You can definitely hear the music on the cover of his solo debut,…
September 22, 2017
Motohiko Hamase: #Notes Of Forestry (1988)
What’s with Japanese session bass players? Yoshio Suzuki, Tsugutoshi Goto, Hirobumi Suzuki, etc. and now Motohiko Hamase, all at one point or…
July 28, 2017
Akira Ito: Marine Flower (Science Fantasy) (1986)
There is a time in any good musician’s life when they absolutely nail down whatever they had to place. Akira Ito, one…
June 29, 2017
Dan Gibson: Harmony – Exploring Nature With Music (1989)
There are so many sides this next recording could fall under: New Age, ambient, environmental music, muzak, tone poems – I choose…
June 20, 2017
Mich Live: Plant Planet’s (1988)
Let’s try a little tenderness from Mitsuru Sawamura, otherwise known as Mich Live, one-time member of Japanese band Interior (with whom he wrote songs…
June 16, 2017
Morgan Fisher: Look At Life (1984)
I’m truly thankful I live in a world where circumstances led Londoner Morgan Fisher to visit Japan, fall in love with country,…
June 13, 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
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