Ric Kaestner: Music For Massage II (1987)
Trying to revisit something I wrote about and remember quite vividly, at the time I wrote it, presents two opportunities: the first…
October 23, 2018
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Subliminal Calm: Subliminal Calm (1992)
Whenever I put on Subliminal Calm’s first and only release I immediately think of spring. Featuring a sublime mix of country, dub,…
April 13, 2018
Sonoko: La Débutante (1987)
Donovan’s A Gift From A Flower To A Garden, Paul McCartney’s Ram, Kate Bush’s The Dreaming, or Clifford T. Ward’s Mantle Pieces,…
March 23, 2018
Mick Karn: Titles (1982)
It’s hard for me to separate Mick’s past from the work you’ll hear in Titles. Still impossibly underrated and unaccounted for — compared…
February 20, 2018
Chinatsu Kuzuu: The City In The Sea (1991)
My mind races trying to describe Chinatsu Kuzuu’s music. Should I share with y’all my first impressions? First, I hear the voice…
January 23, 2018
Kaoru Todoroki: カルビンおじさんの 私生活 (Uncle Calvin’s Private Life) (1985)
First off, I have to apologize for the lo-fi quality of this recording. Unless your name is Masaki Eguti or you are…
January 19, 2018
Re Niliu: Caravi (1988)
Tradition is such a double-edge sword. In the hands of the orthodoxy, tradition can be used as a bludgeon, meant to remind…
January 16, 2018
Martin Kolbe + Ralf Illenberger: Colouring The Leaves (1979)
The early instrumental work by German guitar duo Martin Kolbe and Ralf Illenberger is quite breathtaking. When one hears of a guitar…
January 9, 2018
New Child: Rehabilual (1990)
Maybe Harry Hosuono was onto something? Mishio Ogawa, the “Trance” part of the Love, Peace, & Trance equation…and also ex-lead singer for…
November 7, 2017
Pictures: Pictures (1983)
I’m still floored that such an album like Pictures exists and that it exists in such an arrested state of discovery. In…
November 3, 2017
David Mingyue Liang: Dialogue With The Ocean (1986)
Dr. David Mingyue Liang’s Dialogue With The Ocean merges deep ethnomusicologist study with floating, electronic minimalism for a watery kind of meditative…
September 6, 2017
Ritmia: Forse Il Mare (1986)
Nothing makes one cringe more than when someone tries to “modernize” traditional music. The issue isn’t with modernization but with trying to…
July 26, 2017