ambient
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Who says you need a trip out to the country to get into the spirit of Akira Inoue’s Anne: Dreaming an Island (The Light and Wind of Prince Edward Island) 夢みるアンの島 ～プリンス・エドワード島の光と風～? When I speak of road-tripping records, I speak of records just like this one, one that accepts all the conceits of the “road”…
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You know, it goes without saying that a lot of what I try to do on the blog is simply fill in the blanks. In the case of The Gentle Wind’s Tears Of Nature, you could say the blanks are as important as the known knowns. First of all, great thanks go out to YouTube…
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It’s easy to feel untethered when you’re listening to Chen Guoping’s (aka John Chen) Songs From Within (心意). Oscillating across various styles — jazz, neoclassical, ambient, traditional, and New Age — the album itself never feels anchored to any specific border. The main protagonist in this collection, John Chen’s fingerpicking, acts like a liaison speaking…
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How many of you love being outdoors? Even if it’s just me, I can completely empathize with the mindset being explored by Tatsuya Koumazaki and Febian Reza Pane’s「森の組曲」 / “Forest” Suite. Speaking for myself, nothing feels more refreshing and in a way meditative than walking around some greenery early in the morning. Experiencing the sights,…
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Yes, it does look like it’s that time of the year again. When the dog days of summer fade into the early turn of fall, I tend to tune into music that falls in between seasons and moods. And I can’t help but to think that it’s actually my favorite kind of music. From Shinsuke…
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It’s rare to find someone bridging the gap between Jethro Tull, Marc Bolan’s T-Rex, The Orb, and Toumani Diabate, but it seems this world can support only one Lion Merry. Simply scroll down to the bottom of this post, past the download link, and know that I could have easily gone into multiple rows to…
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Sometimes you just gotta like what you gotta like. And sometimes, you have to admit you’ve done all of what you can to do what you can. Case in point: Gary Knox’s Life At The Beach a sublime lowercase “J”, jazzy ode to all things that fuel my lounging at my local beach. Yet, as…
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And now: more of something I wish there was more history to share about — Lotus Kasumi Experience. It’s that kind of a week. Losing and then regaining an old hard drive — thanks, again, everyone! — sometimes yields unexpected surprises. Case in point, the album listed in the headline.
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Color me “stumped”. My apologies to Chris, who graciously shared Yon Seok-Won’s 空 (Space & Silence) with me. I did my best to piece together some kind or type of background for this amazing Korean ambient album but ran into an equally large gulf in history. It shouldn’t end this way, of course. Much like…
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Forgive me for burying the lede but I have to go back to Yassue. For all of those that thought Yassue’s story ended on A Fine Day…I have to share a wonderful coda to that story. A Cosmic Pandora, if you will. Much like Yumiko Morioka’s MIOS, it was their little-known sophomore album that proved…
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