Takao Naoi (直居隆雄): バイブレーション パルサー (Vibration Pulsar) (1998)
Since time immemorial, humans have looked up into the heavens, gazed at the stars and moon, and felt something stir within. From…
August 28, 2025
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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
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
Hiroki Tamaki (玉木広樹): 音楽浴 田園・・・・ラプソディ (Music Bath – Countryside… Rhapsody) (1992)
I don’t know about you, but one way I try to really understand music—or at least those behind its creation—is to dig…
June 12, 2025
Keiji Itsukashi (嚴樫圭司): Tender Tone (1998)
No one needs a reminder of how delicate history is. But I’m reminded of it quite vividly whenever I listen to the…
June 5, 2025
Hideo Hasegawa (長谷川英郎): メディテーション ブラックホール (Meditation Black Hole) (1998)
Let no one tell you different: describing ambient or so-called “environmental” music can sometimes feel like more of an art than a…
May 22, 2025
Nazoo: Dear Heavens, Children In His Twilight (1994)
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself: “Why am I doing this?” As I keep scouring through myriad broken links, countless blank…
March 20, 2025
Midori (ミドリ): Vortex Symphony (ヴォルテックス・シンフォニー) (1992)
One of my favorite things to discover and hear in music is how ideas translate across genres and borders. Listening to Midori’s…
February 6, 2025
Arcars (アーカーズ): The Surface Of Muclique (ザ・サーフェス・オブ・ムクリック)(1997)
Maybe it’s something about myself, but I tend to feel inspired by the music of those who aren’t necessarily solely inspired by…
January 30, 2025
Logik Freaks (杉山勇司): Temptations of Logik Freaks – One Fine Day (1995)
I can’t help but smile a little when I hear how brazenly Yuji Sugiyama begins what would become his sole release under…
January 23, 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
The Gentle Wind (ザ・ジェントル・ウインド): Gentle Voice (ジェントル・ヴォイス) (1990)
It’s not often I revisit works from artists I’ve already written about, but when I do, it’s because these other works shed…
December 5, 2024