Mizuyo Komiya (小宮瑞代): Color (彩) (1998)
There are times when I wish I had a way to share everything that comes with an album. Just by looking at…
November 14, 2025
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劉錦程 (Liu Jincheng): 中国音楽療法(一) (Chinese Music Therapy (1)) (1991)
Sometimes the hardest thing isn’t putting words on screen. Sometimes the hardest part is finding space to write about a certain piece…
November 3, 2023
Begoña Olavide: Salterio (1994)
Is it: “Everything new is old again?” or is it: “Everything old is new again?” Before I left for my visit to…
October 31, 2023
Karak (カラク): Flow (フロウ) (1992)
It’s pretty hard to write about Fukushima’s Karak without not waxing a bit nostalgic. Over the course of two records – Silent…
October 6, 2023
Lee Jung-Sun (이정선): 9집 雨 (1990)
“Wherever I’ve been and gone, wherever I have gone, the blues are all the same…”, truer words could not exist to place…
March 21, 2023
Kim Doo Soo (김두수): 보헤미안 (Bohemian) (1991)
Here’s something that not many are afraid to admit: a lot of us hate to be lost in the wilderness. It’s its…
November 1, 2022
새바람이 오는 그늘 (The Shade With New Wind): 1집 (1st Album)(1990)
Charming, breezy, and wonderfully multi-layered, those are a few of the many adjectives one can use to describe the sole work by…
September 27, 2022
Catherine Le Forestier: Music Of Aziza (1980)
You know, sometimes I’m as much of a wanderer as you are. There are stories I’d love to really tell but (try…
August 2, 2022
Liu Xing (刘星): 無所事 (To Do Nothing) (1992)
You know, sometimes the struggle is simply trying to quantify how unique something is. I’ve been listening to Liu Xing’s 無所事 (To…
April 12, 2022
Tokiko Kato (加藤登紀子): Hana (花) (1995)
‘Tokiko Kato’ – now that’s a name. A giant of Japanese folk music, it was Tokiko who in many ways was at…
February 11, 2022
Chen Ming-chang (陳明章) and Christine C.C. Hsu (許景淳): 戀戀風塵 (水晶) (Dust In The Wind OST) (1986)
I think, if I’m going to try to “sell” something to you, I should try to to sell it to myself first.…
January 11, 2022
Jesús Auñon: 13 Cuerdas (1992)
Recently, while dabbling in the world of wine reviews, I’ve been ruminating on a term that I believe would be well-adapted for…
December 14, 2021