Album 音 Album of the Month February 21, 2020 by Diego Olivas Gonzalez Mikami: Gate Of Notion (1993) It’s perhaps uncommon knowledge that the best marriages (and relationships) are those comprised of two individuals coming together not in spite of… February 21, 2020
Album Album of the Month January 14, 2020 by Diego Olivas Terese De Sio: Sindarella Suite (1988) There’s something I really admire about Naples’ own Teresa De Sio’s way of thinking. When I went around digging through interviews to… January 14, 2020
Album Album of the Month April 6, 2018 by Diego Olivas Gonzalez Mikami and Titi Matsumura / Sound Process Design Kazumasa Kawashima: Tramart Sound Collection Vol. 1: Music As Interior (1983) When we last left off discovering the “comfiest music” on earth (all self-appointed, of course), Gontiti was gently surprising me both at… April 6, 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 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 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 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
Album Album August 23, 2017 by Diego Olivas Paolo Modugno: Le Bala Et La Mouche (1994) Man, what a world to we live in. Just this year Italy’s Archeo Recordings reissued Paolo Modugno’s intriguing debut Brise D’Automne. Once… August 23, 2017
Album 音 Album February 24, 2017 by Diego Olivas 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
Album 音 Album February 3, 2017 by Diego Olivas Orquesta de las Nubes: Manual de Usuario (1987) rquesta de las Nubes, The Cloud Orchestra, isn’t really an orchestra, that we know for sure. What it is is a trio of… February 3, 2017
Album 音 Album January 13, 2017 by Diego Olivas Eliseo Parra y MOSAICO: Homenaje A Agapito Marazuela (1984) imply, phenomenal, a landmark release of Spanish music. The more I hear Eliseo Parra y MOSAICO’s Homenaje A Agapito Marazuela, the more… January 13, 2017
Album 音 Album November 17, 2016 by Diego Olivas Masahide Sakuma: Lisa (1984) Going back to yesterday’s point about how Music Interior provided a space for musician’s to stretch outside their known fields, today we… November 17, 2016