Album 音 Album March 20, 2018 by Diego Olivas Terry Day Featuring Laura Davis: Look At Me (1987) From French record label Nato comes another wonderful batch of Jazz not Jazz. Look At Me, the debut from English multi-instrumentalist Terry Day,… March 20, 2018
Album Album of the Month March 16, 2018 by Diego Olivas Real Fish: テナン Tenon (1985) I might be stringing myself out there but it’s due time for me to bring up the unbridled, unheralded genius of Seiji… March 16, 2018
Album 音 Album of the Month March 9, 2018 by Diego Olivas Maki Asakawa: Nothing At All To Lose (1988) There always come a point in your life when you just have to say: “fuck it”…and lead with your heart. The late… March 9, 2018
Album Album of the Month March 2, 2018 by Diego Olivas Magical Power Mako: mAgicAl compUteR MusiC (1985) Am I allowed to punt on this one? Literally, it’s all there — right on the album cover. Magical computer music by… March 2, 2018
Album Album of the Month February 27, 2018 by Diego Olivas Alquimia: “Coatlicue” Goddess Of The Earth (1992) In pre-Hispanic times, the name of Coatlicue was on the tip of every mouth found, in the sprawling Aztec empire located in present-day,… February 27, 2018
Album 音 Album of the Month February 23, 2018 by Diego Olivas Genji Sawai: Sowaka (1984) Is it Jazz? How many times can one ask that question. What exactly constitutes Jazz? Genji Sawai’s Sowaka stretches this idea limit.… February 23, 2018
Album Album of the Month February 20, 2018 by Diego Olivas Mick Karn: Titles (1982) It’s hard for me to separate Mick’s past from the work you’ll hear in Titles. Still impossibly underrated and unaccounted for — compared… February 20, 2018
Album Album of the Month February 16, 2018 by Diego Olivas Oscilation Circuit: Série Réflexion 1 (1984) Here’s another worthy album for the canon of Japanese minimalism, Oscilation Circuit’s Série Réflexion 1. Released in 1984, by Sound Process, ostensibly a new… February 16, 2018
Mix 音 Mix February 2, 2018 by Diego Olivas Mix: 8. Dreaming Of A Dream (Walearic Japan – Vol. 2) We can affect change or be an effect of change. These ideas, proposed wonderfully in Charles Demuth’s Spring, moved me to take up a… February 2, 2018
Album 音 Album January 19, 2018 by Diego Olivas Kaoru Todoroki: カルビンおじさんの 私生活 (Uncle Calvin’s Private Life) (1985) First off, I have to apologize for the lo-fi quality of this recording. Unless your name is Masaki Eguti or you are… January 19, 2018
Album Album December 15, 2017 by Diego Olivas Toshifumi Hinata: Story (1987) I wish I had a great way to describe the beauty of Toshifumi Hinata’s music, more so, the beautiful music you’ll find… December 15, 2017
Album 音 Album November 28, 2017 by Diego Olivas Thomas Almqvist: The Journey (1980) A personal favorite of mine, not because it’s his greatest work — I’d wager more people expect the late, great Swedish guitar… November 28, 2017