Yuki Takao Group: Ripening “Japanese Esthetic Sense” (1992)
The funny thing about sharing your own thoughts — about having your own site, about trying to give space for those who…
August 14, 2025
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Semba Kiyohiko (仙波清彦): Jasmine Talk (1996)
How does one capture the enormity of someone like percussionist Kiyohiko Semba? Do you focus on his early work as a key…
July 31, 2025
Konami Kukeiha Club (コナミ矩形波倶楽部): 魍魎戦記 (Madara 2 Sound Fantasia) (1993)
I feel like every time I write about video game music, I should preface my review with a disclaimer: I’m not a…
July 24, 2025
Hiroki Tamaki (玉木広樹): 音楽浴 田園・・・・ラプソディ (Music Bath – Countryside… Rhapsody) (1992)
I don’t know about you, but one way I try to really understand music—or at least those behind its creation—is to dig…
June 12, 2025
Hideo Hasegawa (長谷川英郎): メディテーション ブラックホール (Meditation Black Hole) (1998)
Let no one tell you different: describing ambient or so-called “environmental” music can sometimes feel like more of an art than a…
May 22, 2025
Nazoo: Dear Heavens, Children In His Twilight (1994)
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself: “Why am I doing this?” As I keep scouring through myriad broken links, countless blank…
March 20, 2025
Masafumi Nanatsutani (七ッ谷正文): Water Planet 3 Night 奈良県吉野郡 山上川のせせらぎ (2006)
Much like many of you, the more time one spends in nature, the more one begins to hear a certain musicality in…
December 19, 2024
Mikihiko Matsumiya (松宮幹彦): Mu-Myou (無明) (1994)
Don’t you just love listening to something that isn’t easily categorized? When I listen to Mikihiko Matsumiya’s 1994 debut, Mu-Myou (無明), I…
December 12, 2024
The Gentle Wind (ザ・ジェントル・ウインド): Gentle Voice (ジェントル・ヴォイス) (1990)
It’s not often I revisit works from artists I’ve already written about, but when I do, it’s because these other works shed…
December 5, 2024
Yuhki Nakajima (中島優貴): Dream Up (ドリーム・アップ) (1991)
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
Kuo Heng Chi (郭子): 鸽子与海 (The Dove And The Sea) (1995)
One of the great things about autumn is that it presents an opportunity to share music that’s a bit more ruminative, something…
October 31, 2024
Norihiro Tsuru (都留教博): 人魚の傷 オリジナルサウンドトラック (Mermaid’s Scar Original Soundtrack) (1993)
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