healing music
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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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A wiser person than me once said: serit arbores, quae alteri saeclo prosint or he that plants trees, loves others beside himself. It’s a saying that would later gain life as the old adage, “Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.” I’m thinking of that phrase specifically because I’ve…
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“Now, we’re all under stress. What music do you need to get rid of it? You can find it with this.” – From the liner notes to ストレス・クリニック<自信がつく> (Stress Clinic) Couldn’t have said it better myself. You see, much like many of you, I am not immune to the stresses of life. And lord knows,…
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I hate to say this but this review might be one of the lighter ones. Not because of the album itself – the whole package is truly wonderful (a mix of nostalgia, elegance, and a certain uniqueness, tying quasi-ambient, quasi-neoclassical music with gorgeous photography of Hokkaido) – but because of the lack of information about…
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Would you mind if I share something simply for no other reason than: it’s beautiful? From the packaging to the music, I have to say Tomoyuki Hayashi & ForestIII’s The Forest is just plain pretty. If you had your hands on the physical copy, you can lift up the CD cover and feel the same…
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It’s time to count my blessings. The first one, of course, is that I have this platform to share what I think is great work done by others. Then, I have to admit, I think of it as a blessing to have an audience willing to inhabit this space and share their own path to…
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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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The Universe. It’s not often one turns on an instrument and gets presented with such a thing. Yet, the [Universe] was the sound patch introducing you to the world of Korg’s M1, the first of its kind, a music workstation that gave you what seemed like a universe of sounds in one keyboard. Korg’s M1…
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Trigger warning: “Good morning. It’s 5 o’clock, from the J-WAVE Singin’ Clock…” J-WAVE 時報コレクション My apologies to all of you who’ve grown up in Tokyo, waking up to their radio alarm blasting out J-WAVE 81.3 FM’s ultra-cozy, “singing” time call signal. However, if it wasn’t for Tokyo’s “classic hits” radio station we wouldn’t have the…
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It is with great fanfare that I readily admit that much which I don’t know: I admit, that much like you, I’m not entirely sure of all the history or story behind the music I’m sharing today. The title of this mix (my latest for LYL Radio): “Thoughts Of Zen (Ambient, New Age, & Environmental…
ambient art pop art rock balearic brazilian electro-acoustic england environmental music experimental folk-rock fourth world Funk fusion japan jazz minimalist neo-folk neoclassical new age walearic