Various New Songs Catch-Up Post: Parkgolf Remixing Kindan No Tasuketsu, Nigori And Nohtenkigengo

ByPatrick St. Michel

So much going on recently that it seems necessary to catch up on some of the things that have buzzed by in recent days (and because all of the albums that just arrived online deserve more time to grow). So, here’s some new stuff out of Japan: – Hokkaido producer Parkgolf reworked “Tonight Tonight” by…

In A Place In The Country: Nigori’s “There Is Always A Sad Thing….”

ByPatrick St. Michel

I spent two years living in Mie Prefecture, a stretch of land nestled between Osaka and Nagoya that was part mountainous and part coastal. Caught in the middle of those topographies, sits Matsusaka. It is as suburban-rural as it gets in a place where both those terms are flexed to the maximum – it’s a…