FOND/SOUND

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

First off: a huge tip of my hat to fellow F/S blog reader, Victor Hsu Jui-Ting, for cluing me to today’s album…

February 23, 2024

Fall is something else, isn’t it? As beautiful as the season is – simply one look outside can affirm this – there’s…

October 28, 2022

Be honest. How many of you know someone (or are friends or acquaintances) with a certain somebody that in the way they…

January 14, 2022

I think, if I’m going to try to “sell” something to you, I should try to to sell it to myself first.…

January 11, 2022

Sometimes telling the story of something feels like it won’t match the quality of the source material. In my case, its detailing…

October 19, 2021

Album July 23, 2021 by Diego Olivas Akira Mitake (見岳章): Himawari (向日葵) (1987)

Ambient. New Age. Japan. The tags almost write the post itself, right? Yet, we still have to talk about this intriguing turn…

July 23, 2021

Album of the Month May 25, 2021 by Diego Olivas Tats Lau (劉以達): 秋月 (Music From Autumn Moon) (1994)

Don’t you just love albums that immediately hook you in? From the get-go 秋月 (Music From Autumn Moon) by Tats Lau Yee-Tat…

May 25, 2021

Album April 27, 2021 by Diego Olivas Chan Wing Leung (陈永良): Milk Of Love (母愛) (1986)

First and foremost, let me start with an apology. It might be that my review of Joseph Chan Wing Leung’s work and…

April 27, 2021

Once again I’m back in front of the tabula rasa. And once again I’m challenged with where to begin. The choice is…

April 20, 2021

I’ve gotta admit. Few albums stump me to describe. Of the few that do, AQ! Ishii’s and Hiroko Taniyama’s 楠劇場オリジナル・アルバム (Kusunoki…

January 15, 2021

How does one get into the surprisingly prolific work of S.E.N.S. made up of the duo of Akihiko Fukaura and Yukari Katsuki?…

July 3, 2020

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