Mix: 33. Harvest Home
Once again, we’re back in England for another journey. If you can entertain me just one more time, I’ll share with you…
November 8, 2019
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Tag: neofolk
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Mix: 32. No Roses (Halloween Special)
Rather than belabor you with nonsense trying to rectify itself as a theme, I’d rather rectify something I didn’t do last year:…
October 31, 2019
Mayumi Miyata, Midori Takada: 「星雲」～サウンド・フォレスト・シリーズ (Nebula) (1987)
If we can thank the heavens for something today, it is for bringing together Mayumi Miyata and Midori Takada. Released as part…
October 18, 2019
Various Artists: しおのみち (Shio-No-Michi) (1991)
Forgive my roundabout way to get back to the healing music of Japan’s Awa record label. I feel like we should go…
August 16, 2019
Júlio Pereira: Miradouro (1987)
This might sound like yet that same old story: Noted folkloric or jazz muso discovers drum machines, synths, and samplers, proceeds to…
August 13, 2019
Vízöntő: Villanypásztor (1987)
Népzene, or Hungarian folk music, has always been a quietly influential, if not leftfield, version of music. A mix of Old Central…
March 26, 2019
Mix: 21. Healing Feeling (Awa Muse Special)
How do we get beyond the “fourth world” ideas thought of by early progenitors of it, like Eno and Jon Hassell? We…
January 25, 2019
Lyu Hongjun (劉宏軍): 大地の詩 (Songs Of The Earth) (1988)
There’s a palpable meditation hovering around Lyu Hong-Jun’s masterwork 大地の詩, otherwise known as “Songs Of The Earth” or “Earth Songs”. Recorded for pioneering…
December 14, 2018
Ryokyu Endo: Song Of Pure Land (1994)
So very lovely. Forgive me if some of you are expecting something more experimental, electronic, or whatever else now. Me, I just…
November 16, 2018
R. Carlos Nakai with Wind Travelin’ Band, Shonosuke Ohkura, Oki Kano: Island Of Bows (1994)
Streams of understanding, via spiritual land bridges, or how a Navajo-Ute found a musical connection with Japanese sonorities/tradition. Somehow, I feel a…
November 8, 2018
Mix: 17. JAPANESE AMBIENT, ENVIRONMENTAL, NEW AGE & HEALING MUSIC 1980-1993 (VOL. 3, FIRE)
Illustration by Laura Gomez By fits and starts I struggled, for some reason, to create this latest mix for NTS. I had so…
November 6, 2018
Michiko Akao: Yokobue (1983)
I’m afraid people might get the wrong impression when they listen to the opening track from Michiko Akao’s Yokobue. What’s there to…
October 26, 2018