Various Artists: Garden Path (Ryoondo-Tea Compilation) (2000)
I’ll make this argument: if one wants to understand an aspect of “Japanese” sensibility, one must experience the tea ceremony — sadō…
August 7, 2025
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Mari Hamada (濱田マリ): 編む女 (The Knitting Woman) (1997)
One of the wonders of digging into history is realizing how life has a way of shaking out differently than you expect.…
April 17, 2025
DJ Peah (でぃーじぇい・ぺー): DJ Peah (でぃーじぇい・ぺー) (1994)
Sometimes you hear the future and you fear it. Yet, sometimes you fear the future and you hear… what exactly? Change.
January 16, 2025
Mix: 88. Handbag Music (ハンドバッグ・ミュージック)
The more I curate mixes or tumble down that wormhole called “discovering new music,” the more I find myself questioning how we…
January 7, 2025
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
Tomoki Kanda (神田朋樹): 「Interstellar Interlude」(2012)
Sometimes, I think we’re all in need of some kind of palette cleanser. At the cusp of summer, the urge is to…
June 9, 2023
POiSON GiRL FRiEND: Love Me (1994)
Truth be told: I really had trouble deciding to share this album with you, fair reader. One of my many goals for…
March 6, 2020
Masahiro Sugaya: The Long Living Things (Zoo Of The Sea) (1988)
Masahiro Sugaya has always been an interesting composer. Based in Tokyo, it’s been his music that’s soundtracked dance theater group Pappa TARAHUMARA’s…
August 3, 2018
Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta: Water Messages On Desert Sand (1987)
It would be easy to supplant whatever I stated in my post for Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba and simply transport it here.…
July 17, 2018
Larry Levan Featuring Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Gwen Guthrie, Wally Badarou, Darryl Thompson: Padlock (Special Mixes) (1983)
Life is something special, isn’t it? That’s something you can palpably feel in the music of Larry Levan. When he introduced music…
June 5, 2018
Yoshio Ojima: Une Collection Des Chainons II: Music For Spiral (1988)
When I originally wrote my piece on Yoshio Ojima’s groundbreaking work Une Collection des Chainons I, I couldn’t think of why omitted…
December 22, 2017
Fashion: Fabrique (1982)
One of the ultimate statements in sleaze. Some Discog commenter put it better than I ever would: “If cocaine were music, this…
October 27, 2017