Mix

Mix: 35. Japanese Healing Music

2019/12/06

Certain things aren’t lost on me. Whenever I look at my time slot at LYL Radio I feel a sense of responsibility. Each month on Wednesday, I end their programming day. For some, it’s 11 PM Paris time. While for others (like myself) it’s 4 PM Central Standard time. While one part of the world…
Mix: 34. Akira Inoue Special II (Guest Mix by Francis Heaney)

2019/11/28

Note: Guest, Francis Heaney, rejoins us to share the second part of his mix series covering Japan’s incomparable Akira Inoue. This time around the focus is on his brilliant collaborative work with others like Aska Kaneko, David Rhodes, and many more. I’ll let Francis take it from here…
Mix: 32. No Roses (Halloween Special)

2019/10/31

Rather than belabor you with nonsense trying to rectify itself as a theme, I’d rather rectify something I didn’t do last year: share my special hour-long Halloween mix for LYL Radio. For those that tuned in, you were treated to one of my deepest loves: British Folk Rock. Today I’m taking it a bit further.
Mix: 25. Heart To Heart

2019/09/02

Nearing the end of summer I thought it would be nice to revisit a mix I shared with brilliant Lithuanian free-form online station Hao Dao Radio, but held off on sharing here. To bookend a feeling, it makes more sense to hear it now. Loosely based on the little known and (sadly) as heralded work…
Mix: 27. Ruas Y Cidades (Minas Gerais Special: 1973-1990)

2019/06/14

Cover Photography by @krstnshtlv As a writer, one always has floating on one’s head drafts of things to cover. For various years I’ve always wanted to really tell the story of the music of Brazil’s Minas Gerais region, post-Clube Da Esquina. That’s part of the reason I chose to focus intently on it for my…
Mix: 24. Sueño Con Mexico

2019/04/19

For this mix for LYL Radio I was feeling more than a tinge of nostalgia. Somehow, one day, hearing the plaintive tones of Pat Metheny’s “Sueño Con Mexico” got me reminiscing about where I come from and how much of the music I love comes from music that triggers memories of things I heard when…
Mix 23. Stronger Than Pride

2019/03/22

I always found it odd that a musical style tailor made for our generation is both a) little-known (outside of Anglophile circles) and b) devoid of noted umbrella genre. Sophisti-Pop is a made-up termed coined after the fact. Musicians like Paul Weller, Sade, Paul Buchanan, Green Gartside, Roddy Frame, and Paddy McAloon, might have (in…
Mix 22. The Look Of Love

2019/02/22

Call me a hopeless romantic but I love love songs. This is, what, my third mix about love? Perhaps it’s because I try to empathize with the sentiment. Perhaps because I love the feelings it wrings out of you. I’m just hopelessly in love with love songs. This mix tries to collect some current, not-so-current…
Mix: 21. Healing Feeling (Awa Muse Special)

2019/01/25

How do we get beyond the “fourth world” ideas thought of by early progenitors of it, like Eno and Jon Hassell? We begin by seeing it, hearing it, through the eyes/ears of those who felt a need to connect to other traditions as it could form part of their own. The classic idea was to…
Mix. 18: Poems Of Five Mountains

2018/12/04

That intersection between organic and inorganic has been something I’ve been chewing on lately. What makes something one or the other? I’d argue that something as simple as the introduction of sampler instruments revolutionized the way we can make that argument immaterial.