ambient

  • First and foremost, let me start with an apology. It might be that my review of Joseph Chan Wing Leung’s work and his career might span longer (or shorter) than the actual album, Milk Of Love (母愛), you’ll hear today. Though, in around 20 minutes you’ll get a taste on this album of the esoteric…

  • Once again I’m back in front of the tabula rasa. And once again I’m challenged with where to begin. The choice is now obvious, of course, it’s in the ideas of a “new world music” by Chinese composer Cong Su. And it is his soundtrack to the movie 美夢成真 (aka Dreams Come True) that will…

  • It’s not often (if ever) that I get to reveal my own music to you, the reader. Not for nothing, as I related to Austin from Incidental Music who tapped me to contribute to his Tone Poem mix series, I rarely/if ever felt the excuse or pretense to slot myself along the great work of…

  • Don’t ask me why but I have something to literally share with you. For some reason I’ve been carrying around Aki Fukakusa’s Silk Strings Enchanting everywhere I go lately. In this weird time in my life, in between moving to a new place and getting rid of the old baggage, I packed up all my…

  • Due to unforeseen circumstances — aka moving all my record collection to a new locale/home — once again I have to go into the well of knowledge, you the readers, have passed on to me to pass on something else back. Today’s post comes courtesy of a great find by sometime guest, Francis Heaney, who…

  • Interior music. It seems that this is it, everyone. We’ve spoken before about Hiroshi Yoshimura’s  Soundscape 1: Surround, our introduction to Misawa Home’s foundational environmental music series for Japanese prefabricated houses. You’ve probably heard elsewhere Yutaka Hirose’s entry into the series, a collection of peaceful electroacoustic minimalist pastorales aptly dubbed Soundscape 2: Nova. Then, somewhere,…

  • The more I burrow down rabbit holes, the more I realize music has interesting ways of making (seemingly) strange bedfellows work best together. Case in point: Fania Miñaur’s all too brief career and this album, Deja Hablar Al Tiempo. 

  • I’ve got a confession to make: I rarely dream. I know that’s an odd thing to state but it’s true. When I sleep I find that it’s rare that I can remember my dreams or even if I dreamt at all. Strangely enough, my latest mix for Digging Deep at LYL Radio seems to be…

  • 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 Gekijou) must be up there in my personal canon. Much like Mariah’s うたかたの日々/ Utakata No Hibi, Aragon’s self-titled debut, and Godley & Creme’s Consequences, to name a few close brethren, so too does…

  • I hate giving you just a taste of anything but Né Ladeiras’s Corsaria has to serve as one today. Ambient and ethereal, Corsaria rightfully belongs in a certain pantheon of Portuguese music, much like the work of Zeca Afonso (and others), trying to bridge that gap between the moorless, Portuguese fado tradition and whatever new…

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