Ian suggested I rank the "top ten Japanese albums" for my next installment of the Friday Top Ten franchise. That's right, it's a franchise now. As far as I know you don't have to do more than two or three of something in order to make it a franchise. They call the Twilight movies a franchise and there are only three of them. I've written nearly 200 top ten lists, I'd say that's a god damned franchise, wouldn't you? Anyway, I thought that Ian had a good idea, but there are so many different kinds of Japanese music, [...]
It was one of the more surreal "mystery drives" I've taken. After driving 86 miles north of Los Angeles, I found myself on some road called Avenue J near Lancaster, California. As I was considering turning around and starting back towards the city, I saw a sign for the California Poppy Reserve, a state park, and realized I had found my destination. I would spend dusk walking trails lined with beautiful poppies, blissed out of my mind, far, far away from the troubles surrounding me at home. To no one in particular, I spoke as I drove about my [...]
. death as it shook you you gave it a fool's look you said I am an empty page to you give me your hand give me you blood don't misunderstand I once had all the words I forgot all the words held the binding lightning began to burn away we began to burn away held the binding the lightning began to burn away the body burns away the body burns away the body burns away - Songs Ohia [...]
I picked up an extremely interesting compilation the other day. Titled International Sad Hits, Vol. 1: Altaic Language Group , it collects several notable songs from four prominent Asian songwriters. The lineup features Fikret Kizilok (Turkey), Kim Doo Soo (Korea), and Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan (Japan). Kizilok is perhaps the most famous out of the bunch, remembered largely as one of the most memorable influences in Anatolian rock (Turkish rock and folk driven by psychedelia). Soo is a prominent Korean acid-folk musician, notable for his emotional quivering vocals and strong expressive elements. He has released several albums with [...]
Damon And Naomi, out of Damon And Naomi, and once of Galaxie 500, are about to launch the first in a series of albums, the International Sad Hits. The concept is simultaneously high-falutin' - all four artists are united by a shared common thread to their Altaic languages - and as basic as it comes - a love of melancholy. The acts are Turkey's Fikret Kizilok, Korea's Kim Doo Soo and Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan, a pair of Japanese artists. Kizilok died in 2001, after a thirty-year career of mixing western rock with [...]
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