Diego Olivas
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Blue. What does the color “blue” sound like? I don’t believe that’s a question I (or others) easily answer. Barriers to sensation, usually, come via barriers from feel. The eyes can’t experience what the mouth can taste or skin can touch. Traveling. That’s a word that helps. Music can, in some ways, paint a picture…
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Traveling. That’s all I can think about now. I won’t bore you with too much autobiography but life has been quite stressful lately. So, when I put on music – or when I share music – I want it to take me (or us) somewhere. And lately, its cardinal points have taken me to the…
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Time sure does fly when you’re in the pocket. And in the case of my latest Digging Deep mix it’s the reason that caused me to both: a) go over my hour-allotted time (sorry, LYL Radio friends) and b) completely jettison the ending of said mix from the original inspiration behind it. So, I’m asking…
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Talk about worlds within worlds. Isn’t that the essence of Keishi Urata’s 世界の果て (Final Frontier)? It’s about combining electronically-imagined sound atmospheres with otherworldly IRL, acoustic instruments. It’s about exploring the edges of jazz, ambient, and traditional music for an imaginary soundtrack to imaginary environs. It’s a work full of mystery from a man whose whole…
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Once again I turn towards an old love of mine, the music of Brazil. Where else can one get that special emotion of saudade – evoking the bittersweet, mixed up flights of fancy we all share – than through the genuine deal, as today’s album by Vital Lima does? All the touchstones and waypoints that…
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I don’t know about you but there’s just something about summer that lights a fire in me. When I turn that season’s feeling into the realm of music I, quite simply, have reams of music just waiting in the docket looking for their time to come out. As I write a little bit less on…
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Looking back, there’s something very telling in the first video clip I embedded here which you can watch below. In it we see one Jay Alanski participating in Thierry Ardisson’s popular “Le Blind Test” – a show where celebrities and/or musicians are presented with excerpts from records, quizzed whether they can guess what’s playing. What’s…
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Truth be told, most of the rabbit holes I go into now are of my own making. Case in point: my latest LYL Radio mix. I say this because, for some reason, the track that inspired the whole shebang, Ichiro Nitto’s “浅い眠り” aka “Shallow Sleep”, captured a certain feeling or environ that I seemingly can…
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As I fish my increasingly puzzled brain, trying to suss out words for Amahoro’s Flowering Of The Spirit (いのちの花), I go back to just how unlikely of a story and of a pairing these two came to be. You see, if you didn’t know who was behind the music, you wouldn’t think it was the…
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With flowers blooming and all sorts of greenery coming to life, I think now would be the time to introduce you to the work Taipei’s Chen Yang and his 現代四季 (Modern Four Seasons). Kindly shared with me by fellow midwesterner, Chris J. Morris, 現代四季 (Modern Four Seasons) is a wonderful, lively work of little-heard or…
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