hard Romantic (ハード・ロマンティック): MODERN AMBIENT COLOURS (1996)
I have to admit that sometimes I have to know when to stop searching. As I close countless browser tabs and piece…
May 29, 2026
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Yuki Takao Group: Ripening “Japanese Esthetic Sense” (1992)
The funny thing about sharing your own thoughts — about having your own site, about trying to give space for those who…
August 14, 2025
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
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
Kyoji Ohno (大野恭史): Kutsurogi (サイコジェネシス・シリーズ くつろぎ) (1990)
There’s a fine line between background music and background music. It’s something that’s easier to hear than explain. And one way to…
May 17, 2024
劉錦程 (Liu Jincheng): 中国音楽療法(一) (Chinese Music Therapy (1)) (1991)
Sometimes the hardest thing isn’t putting words on screen. Sometimes the hardest part is finding space to write about a certain piece…
November 3, 2023
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
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
Mix: 75. Deep Valley (幽谷)
When I went about curating my latest mix for LYL Radio, a phrase kept guiding me forward: “atmosphere as culture”. If any…
May 3, 2023
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
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
Yukiyo Nakamura (中村幸代): The Arch Of The Heavens (1994)
It’s not often you recognize “genius” straight away, yet it’s not often you get to hear such precocious brilliance of the likes…
March 17, 2023