Sometimes you catch Foodman in a playful mood, and he’s making beats urging you to dance, and sometimes you catch him in a more experimental state of mind, and you just listen closely to how he plays with the texture of audio. It appears his new mini album Couldwork could work out like the latter,…
We wrote about this song a bit before, about how it finds two Tokyo artists who often operate in the shadows coming together to make something hopeful in the face of the crushing realities of urban life. Fittingly, the new video for it is a time-lapse clip of Japan’s capital, gone trippy at times but…
Today was the first time in a long day where the temperature in Tokyo resembled Spring, and lord knows those same numbers next to the Celsius symbol won’t be back for a few more weeks. Maybe that’s why these two songs by Shoji Ishiguro, a bass player who records under the name Gropas, blindsided me…
This was going to go up Friday but…that didn’t happen! So here it is as a special Sunday night post. It’s slightly absurd, but I’m always drawn to artists operating out of Mie Prefecture, a relatively rural part of Japan sandwiched between Nagoya and Osaka. Mainly because that’s where I lived when I first moved…
It seems a bit ridiculous to use a post about a song as feather-bed-soft as Naola’s “Fufu” as a diary entry…but hey, I’m paying the hosting fees, so why not. My life is pretty good on a lot of levels, but geez has 2015 left me tired. In the most literal sense — I spend…