pop

Everything Play: Lou Lou Mon Amour (ルール・モナムール) (1987)

2018/06/22

For some reason, I’ve been sitting on this album for a long while just waiting for the right season to share it. It’s Everything Play’s Lou Lou Mon Amour (ルール・モナムール) who I owe a huge debt of gratitude to one fellow reader, Wes Almond, who has an equally fascinating Youtube channel who we all should…
Water Melon Group: Cool Music (1984)

2017/08/30

It almost seems like I really shouldn’t have to write that much about the Water Melon Group. If you don’t know the two main players of this group, the late Toshio Nakanishi and Yann Tomita, now would be a great time to go back into the FOND/SOUND vault and dig up my entries on their…
Chrisma: Amore (1976)

2014/07/20

Christina and Maurizio in NYC, 1974. Well, this is where all the pieces come together. Chrisma, later to be named Krisma, was an Italian husband and wife musical duo composed of Christina Moser (born in Switzerland) and Maurizio Arcieri (born in Milan). Unheard of in the US, starting in 1976 they charted a course that…
Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Fire (1979)

2014/07/14

In honor of France’s Independence Day, Le quatorze Juillet or Bastille Day, I’d like to start my month long retrospective on French music…jk (someday, soon, maybe)…Anyway, on this day, celebrate the razing of one of the worst prisons ever, and the sacking of one of the last French monarchs ever by listening to Lizzy Mercier Decloux’s…
Track of the Day: May 19, 2014

2014/05/19

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. What a perfect time to breakout some of my favorite grillin’, BBQ’ing, vibin’ tracks. Whenever I want to get the party started, without fail, the greatest non-BBQing, BBQing track always starts to play: ABBA’s “Eagle”. I say this, because the device I use to get the party started is…
Caravan: The World is Your’s (1972)

2014/05/01

Just to continue a bit on a theme I’ve been touching on. What I truly admire in an artist is when you see a hidden talent expressed begrudgingly. The softness of Lou Reed, Camel’s obvious pop talents, and in the case of my pick of the day Pye Hasting’s seriously melodic chop. I don’t say…
Donovan: The Mandolin Man and His Secret (1967)

2014/04/26

My pick for the day is a track off Donovan’s “A Gift From a Flower to a Garden” album. As a listener whose normally so averse to twee music…I always have to admit a profound love for Donovan’s music because it stays just this side of that line. This double album was released to wide…
Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim: Dindi (1967)

2014/04/21

Man, Ole Blue Eyes. It took me a long time to warm up to him. Now I can’t help but appreciate the man. This track called Dindi is off the “Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim” album. This widely known hard-ass from NJ, when he lets his facade down, is really a sensitive and flawed…