beyond the sunrise.

not my first time posting yoshi wada here. this album from 82 is utterly breathtaking, two long tracks to get lost in & forget about yr surroundings if for just a little bit.

bridge of leaves.

amongst the maestros, marchetti never gets his fair due, which is a shame because he's a strong composer with an impressive body of work. really lovely music perfect for a soundtrack to a lazy weekend.

ps just realized it's been six years now. pretty wild.

friday feelings.

throwing up this stone cold soul jazz classic from 75 up before i have to go into my soul crushing job. this has been getting a lot of play around these parts lately.

i don't want to be yr shadow.

been going through miyazaki lately (for what feels like the umpteenth time but there are always details to pick up along the way), got to thinking about how amazing the scores are, got to hunting down more work by ole joe hisaishi & stumbled across this gem. what a beautiful soundtrack, & i thought i'd like to share it with y'all. the main theme has light shades of moments in love (at least to these ears), & the whole thing is really just so very lovely. hope y'all enjoy!

standing on top of a mountain.

i recently posted another heavenly music corporation so figured i should throw this one up as well. more gorgeous ambient jams for the weekend.

while the city sleeps.

more fire from patrick o'hearn this time from 87.

march of the spirits.

one of my all time favorite tapes, i jam this on the reg. ecstatic gems from my man thomas mapfumo who fled zimbabwe in the late 90's due to the political climate. i don't wanna ramble on too much, but such an inspiring story which you can read more about here. i don't even think i can do this one justice, it's just something you have to hear for yrself.

island of woods.

charming japanese synth pop earworms from 1983.

the lost world.

hailing from 67, gabor szabo would never again match this perfect synthesis of sitars, psyche folk, jazz & latin tinged drumming which is a wonderful way to start a sunday morning (or wind down for those non us folks :).

waltz for a spaniel.

a gem of a jam from my man hiroshi yoshimura in 93.

early stars.

so much heat on this... full of blissers & jammers from the always on point patrick o'hearn from 1984.

thoughts like rain.

everything moroder does is ace, but this is by far my favorite from the dude. johnny jewel owes a lot to this record...

good morning, midnight.

what a lovely album. this was made in the mid nineties for a japanese radio station which beamed through satellites ethereal audio harmony twenty four hours a day. i think y'all will enjoy it.

ps real torn up over johann johannsson, what a beautiful body of work to be left behind. godspeed good sir.

um, circles and squares.

a lovely number from this fella. i know this isn't the deepest gem, but is a nice warm up run to get back into the swing of things around these parts. also, i wanted to post sade's diamond life or gza's liquid swords but i don't think i'm ready for this blog to get shut down just yet. maybe one day.

welcome home.

since people have been going crazy over midori takada (& rightfully so) lemme share one of my favs from her. sorry for the shitty quality cover, it's the best i could find with a five second search.

smoke signals vol VII.

hey there! i have a new tape coming out tomorrow, so in anticipation of that, here is my newest smoke signals, a screwed mix of library, post punk, brasilian groove, minimal techno, & new age. i think it goes awfully well with the gray weather we have been having lately.

listen here.

falling grains of sand.

really lovely album from 03 by takagi masakatsu, reminds me of savath & savalas, & at points the books as well. yeah, if yr into scott herren at all, then this will be in yr wheelhaus.

summer of qualchan.

sorry i've been away, was busy last month. i had these three tapes come out in august. the top one, here, tyrant death. came out on shadowtrash outta boulder, co & is an exploration of the now age dedicated to my dad who has been battling a mystery illness for the last two & a half years. the middle one smoke break vol II is a screwed mixtape of pop gems that came out on adhesive sounds outta toronto. the third, a split with effed. came out on aescape sounds outta austin, tx & is concerned with the ecological nightmare humanity has wrought for all living species, & the never ending war on terror & the ever looming police state respectively.

i'll get to posting albums again soon. hope y'all have had a great summer. wanna give a shoutout to doc bronze for the top & bottom photos, yr one of the great ones my friend.


purchase

here, tyrant death.

smoke break vol II.

qualchan. // effed split. 

summer without waves.

don't really remember where i copped this from years ago, but here is some carnatic loveliness for a lazy laundry afternoon.

no words.

an album to lull the oneironaut on to greater voyages. drift drift away.

ps yr thinking to yrself, how the fuck do i know what i'm getting with this album since this jerk just gets high & posts some vague description which probably doesn't even relate to the actual album but sounds nice in his head. good question. watch out for a novel here... i've been running this blog for five years now, have outlasted many of my peers (rip to my circle, yr sorely missed in the age of bland tidal advertisements shilling whatever the industry thinks you want to hear), & i think i have created a general aesthetic for this blog. although the music wildly varies from this album of traditional drumming of the nile which is gorgeous to french psyche rock to gamelan to narcocorridos to giallo jazz, i think the albums i choose from each genre are always great. i think we have come to an interesting time where the blog is dying out, & curation is now seen as a fool's errand since i can just open spotify & their algorithm will tell me what to listen to next. & while yes, the ease & convenience afforded by streaming services is nice, & the breadth of these sites is somewhat impressive, it acts to further isolate the listener inside the panopticon that is the modern technological hellscape. i will take this moment to praise all of my comrades who have kept it going (shoutout to my man flash), & to the ones who are missed (owl, ghostcap, mutant sounds, the list goes on & on). i would also encourage people to reach out to their heroes while they're still around & let them know that you appreciate them. while i'm at it, please get outside & enjoy the fresh air & gorgeous vistas that nature has provided for us for the last 12,000 years of our existence & we have been able to destroy in the last 150 years. & before you come at me with some fuckshit about "keep this just about music & not about politics," then maybe you haven't been here to spookcity before or not really fucked with me that way.i may edit this later to go on a longer scree about the industrial revolution fueled by the ever pervasive hydra of capitalism being the worst thing to happen to the earth (also yes, i know i'm typing this on a computer which is yes a byproduct but is also a tool to be used to disseminate the roadmap). the earth will be uninhabitable in less than a hundred years. welcome to the anthopocene indeed.