FOND/SOUND

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from a recent trip to Japan, it’s this: I might be too ahead of the curve.…

November 28, 2024

Do you feel and see it? Isn’t “Spooky Season” unofficially around us? Whenever a certain air descends on most of us, I…

October 24, 2024

Album October 10, 2024 by Diego Olivas Something In The Air: Something In The Air (1993)

Don’t you just love it when the story writes itself? I say this because the story of Something In The Air has…

October 10, 2024

Who says I don’t like a good mystery? I say this because it appears that lately I’ve been hitting on this theme:…

July 25, 2024

Album of the Month July 18, 2024 by Diego Olivas Blue (ブルー): Blue (ブルー・碧い海のイマージュ) (199?)

You know, sometimes you’ve gotta go with what you’ve got. It was over three years ago when I first discovered Blue (ブルー・碧い海のイマージュ)…

July 18, 2024

There’s a fine line between background music and background music. It’s something that’s easier to hear than explain. And one way to…

May 17, 2024

The chirp of crickets, a babbling brook, the melodies of a songbird, certain things trigger a sense of new life or of…

May 8, 2024

Album of the Month April 19, 2024 by Diego Olivas Yukihiro Fukutomi (福富幸宏): POST ( ポスト) (1993)

Listening to Yukihiro Fukutomi’s music takes me back to a different time. It reminds me of the first time I encountered Japanese…

April 19, 2024

Album of the Year April 5, 2024 by Diego Olivas Max Meazza: Nightime Call (1986)

As a writer, I try to remain as objective as possible and not inject too much of myself into what I review.…

April 5, 2024

Album of the Month March 29, 2024 by Diego Olivas Yukio Sasaki (佐々木幸男): Jealousy (ジェラシー) (1990)

We all have our soft spots. Lately, for me, it’s been sharing certain kinds of “rainy day” albums tailor-made to appeal to…

March 29, 2024

First off: a huge tip of my hat to fellow F/S blog reader, Victor Hsu Jui-Ting, for cluing me to today’s album…

February 23, 2024

Album February 20, 2024 by Diego Olivas Diethelm & Famulari: Diethelm/Famulari (1984)

No joke, I too sometimes feel puzzled as you might be with what gets shared on this blog. On a regular day,…

February 20, 2024

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