Xácara (シャカラ): Breeze From Recife (レシーフェの風) (1991)
When I think of “relaxation music,” I envision music with a Brazilian touch. It’s that kind of music that carries a certain…
August 29, 2024
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Carioca (カリオカ): Pale Moon (ペール・ムーン) (1984)
Who knows where the time goes? Because, apparently, lately it’s me. Through some fated collusion of circumstance and consequence, both personal and…
November 23, 2022
Doris Monteiro: Agora (1976)
Let me be forthright, I wish I had more info to share about this album. Doris Monteiro’s Agora, released in 1976, was…
August 25, 2020
Randy Tico: Earth Dance (1990)
Don’t stop, can’t stop, the dance. Something else to fill your expanding Balearic canon: Randy Tico’s Earth Dance. Not quite jazz, world…
August 6, 2019
Tuca: Dracula, I Love You (1974)
Periodically, I like to dive into my old “A Track, A Day” blog archives for music I’ve written about before but I…
October 31, 2017
Tom Jobim: Matita Perê (1973)
Lightness, sweetness, and melancholia those are things that define Tom Jobim’s career. You don’t need me to regurgitate a whole Wikipedia page…
September 20, 2017
Katsutoshi Morizono: 4:17 p.m. (1985)
There’s an appeal to Katsutoshi Morizono’s 4:17 p.m. that can only be heightened, or fully appreciated, during summer, our current time of…
August 9, 2017
Sonia Rosa: Samba Amour (1979)
Heady, windswept, gauzy saudade that could only come from someone like Sonia Angelica De Carvalho Rosa, are things that don’t quite reveal themselves when you hear Samba…
May 16, 2017
Jon Lucien: Satan
Jon Lucien Here’s another rare groove. Its the groove of West Indian-born (Virgin Islands) Jon Lucien. He was quite an odd musical…
September 7, 2014