Takagi Kan (高木完): Artman (アートマン) (1997)
As a writer, one of the toughest things to gauge is just how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole…
July 17, 2025
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Kusu Kusu (クスクス): 世界が一番幸せな日 (Sekai Ga Ichiban Shiawase Na Nichi) (1990)
Timing. Isn’t that what life’s all about? If you’re there at the right moment, it all works out. If you’re there late,…
August 8, 2023
Chito Kawachi (チト河内): チトチック/クラクラ (1993)
There is no harder thing for a music reviewer to do than categorize music that’s, quite simply, uncategorizable. Especially so when it’s…
August 4, 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
Catherine Le Forestier: Music Of Aziza (1980)
You know, sometimes I’m as much of a wanderer as you are. There are stories I’d love to really tell but (try…
August 2, 2022
Patty Pravo: Ideogrammi (1994)
In this day and age, when there’s no lack of opinions, I go back to a few personal heroes. When I think…
February 8, 2022
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
John Chen (陈国平): Songs From Within (心意) (1999)
It’s easy to feel untethered when you’re listening to Chen Guoping’s (aka John Chen) Songs From Within (心意). Oscillating across various styles…
August 24, 2021
Francesco Paladino: Eroi A Rio (1991)
With the recent passing of the late, great Jon Hassell, I think it’s important to break down something worthwhile he’d be proud…
June 29, 2021
Esther Ofarim, Eberhard Schoener, Wolf Wondratschek, Ulf Miehe: Complicated Ladies (1982)
Truth be told, few records in my collection sound like Esther Ofarim’s Complicated Ladies. Well, truth be told, few albums will ever…
February 11, 2020
Gabriel Yacoub: Elementary Level Of Faith (1987)
If one can remember anything of French-Lebanese musician Gabriel Yacoub, it’s of the time he fronted progressive folk group Malicorne. Under Malicorne,…
June 4, 2019
Koichi Inamoto (稲本耕一): Message From Min-Yō クラリネットでちょっと気どって日本民謡 (1986)
Coming in clear, not just a message from Min’yō but one of other beautiful Japanese folk traditions from the Muromachi period and…
May 31, 2019