Keishi Urata (浦田恵司): 世界の果て (Final Frontier) (1989)
Talk about worlds within worlds. Isn’t that the essence of Keishi Urata’s 世界の果て (Final Frontier)? It’s about combining electronically-imagined sound atmospheres with…
July 1, 2022
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Amahoro (アマホロ): Flowering Of The Spirit (いのちの花) (1995)
As I fish my increasingly puzzled brain, trying to suss out words for Amahoro’s Flowering Of The Spirit (いのちの花), I go back…
May 13, 2022
Mix: 65. Hajime Mizoguchi – 溝口肇
I’ve always had a belief: it’s that you can really tell a lot about a person by what they listen to, how…
April 26, 2022
Yoshihiro Kanno (菅野由弘): サッポロファクトリー環境音楽コラージュ (Music In Sapporo Factory) (1993)
What exactly gives life to any inanimate object? Is it the way it looks? Is it the way we interact with it?…
April 15, 2022
Hajime Hyakkoku (百石元) + Akihiro Yūki (悠木昭宏): Stress Clinic (自信がつく) (1993)
“Now, we’re all under stress. What music do you need to get rid of it? You can find it with this.” –…
April 8, 2022
Salon Music (サロンミュージック): O Boy (1988)
Certain albums are pretty hard to justify, or quantify, the how, when, or why to share. Salon Music’s O Boy isn’t one…
March 18, 2022
Katsuhiko Nakagawa (中川勝彦): Lover People (ラヴァー・ピープル) (1988)
Surely, he must have known. That’s all I can think about when I listen to Katsuhiko Nakagawa’s memorial album, Again, Me… Released…
February 18, 2022
Tokiko Kato (加藤登紀子): Hana (花) (1995)
‘Tokiko Kato’ – now that’s a name. A giant of Japanese folk music, it was Tokiko who in many ways was at…
February 11, 2022
Shinji Harada (原田真二): Doing Wonders (ドゥーイング・ワンダース) (1986)
“Prince.” Now with that out of the way, can I focus on what I think is one of J-Soul’s least heralded and…
January 21, 2022
Toshihiro Nakanishi (中西俊博): You Make Me Blue (ユーメイクミーブルー) (1992)
Be honest. How many of you know someone (or are friends or acquaintances) with a certain somebody that in the way they…
January 14, 2022
4℃: Christmas Suite (1992)
Don’t ask me why but it seems that jewelry companies always find a way to leverage their buying power to commission others…
December 24, 2021
Masami Ota x Masumi Takahashi (太田正美 x 高橋真澄): シンフォレスト 美瑛・富良野 (Biei-Furano) (1995)
I hate to say this but this review might be one of the lighter ones. Not because of the album itself –…
December 17, 2021