Syoko: Soil (1986)
Everytime I put on Syoko’s Soil I have to do a double-take. Seriously? The music coming out of my headphones right now was made…
April 28, 2017
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Mio Fou: Mio Fou (1984)
Just look at that album cover. Mio Fou’s self-titled debut has an album cover that has fascinated me to no end. You see,…
April 21, 2017
Yas Kaz: Shinran/Path To Purity (1987)
Originally recorded to soundtrack Rentarō Mikuni’s Jury Prize-winning Cannes film festival “Shinran: Path to Purity”, Yas Kaz’s own Shinran/Path To Purity does well to exist…
April 17, 2017
Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Ecophony Gaia (1990)
Deep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990,…
April 14, 2017
Hiroki Okano: 19871990 (1991)
Hiroki Okano’s debut 19871990 is startling in more ways than one. A trailblazing stew of new form Japanese ambient and new age minimal music…
April 10, 2017
Koharu Kisaragi: 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (1986)
Koharu, Koharu, wherefore are thou Koharu? That’s the big question rolling around in my head. Koharu Kisaragi’s 都会の生活 Tokai No Seikatsu (which translates to: Urban Life) isn’t…
March 31, 2017
Urban Dance: Urban Dance (1985)
Even for Haruomi Hosono, Urban Dance is a rare bird. Let me step back. After listening to Friends of Earth and Love,…
March 29, 2017
Mix: 3. What Do You Do When It’s Spring?
In a way, rebirth is exactly what my third mix is about. Taking cues from various feelings springtime evokes, I wanted to compile a set…
March 20, 2017
Mioko Yamaguchi: Moon-Light Princess (1983)
Do you know what I love about Mioko Yamaguchi? That no matter what she attempts, she finds a way to actually do…
March 17, 2017
dip in the pool: Retinae (1989)
Paris in the winter must be a whole lot different than any other time of the year. Yes, the feeling of romance…
March 13, 2017
Takumi: Meat the Beat (1983)
Tokyo, Berlin, London and other points in between, are the locales touched by Meat the Beat an intriguing work from surprisingly prolific (yet largely unknown) Japanese musician…
March 3, 2017
Tolerance: Divin (1981)
ot much is known about the Japanese female/male musical duo Tolerance made up of Junko Tange and Masami Yoshikawa. Understatement of understatements,…
February 24, 2017