ミルクティー (Milk Tea)

UA is my Japan. Thriving past a lot of what most would call J-Pop she had often been described as eccentric(the only word the Japanese seem to know for someone who is just a little different to everyone else here). UA isn't actually what most Japanese listen to, but everyone of many age groups know her name and some can recall a song title. For me she is the temperament and hue of rose colored sunglasses I like to view Japan in....(to be continued).

ミルクティー (Milk Tea) 1998
水色 (Color of Water) UA mentions that she first sang this song in Osaka--her roots



ランドリーより愛をこめて (From the Laundry Come Feelings of Love)
数え足りない夜の足音(Counting Isn't Enough Sound of Footsteps of the Night)



UA -- Long Play ~45 mins. of various UA

Updated Post on Vate

Corrected influence work reference to Exopia.

Eminent Somniloquy

Usual attempts at reviewing ambient music come across as really stupid to me. I usually stop reading them once the writer starts using words like cosmic, transcendental or meditative. Yeah, it's usually quit, has a slow shifting form and doesn't cause a lot of raucous.

I have heard a lot of so-called ambient music that I think is bad. This is quite often the case because it doesn't keep to the form of being quit and to a nice floating form. Ambient Frequencies, a compilation of different ambient artists, works for me. If I want to listen to something termed "ambient" I want something to listen to while I am studying or just thinking and want something to influence the mood of the room without taking over as the main attraction from what I actually need to be concentrating on. I think this does that. Do I really need to give some over-the-top Kantian metaphysical critic for this that connects me with a bunch of stock-raving mad dogmatic new-ageist yogis just to mellow out while i study?

CONNE

Brigitte Fontaine

When she gets braught up with French I know, the response is either she's brilliant or she's a c**t. I don't think she's concerned about the latter of the opitions. In fact, she's reveled in the idea-- Conne. I think she's brilliant. C'est normal!

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D'ailleurs

Sardonic Americana; There Were Cotton Candy for clouds

Americana like Patsy Cline and Jeanne Pruett. Kristy Kruger billed as alternative country won me over by her humorous sardonic Americana. Found while searching for Lucinda Williams on the hell myspace is.

Some Complain That This Album Doesn't Fit in Any Genre....What?!?!

"Who is on my Sofa ?" is proof that freely distributed music has its gems in a pile of coal. The album strays away from Poxfil's earlier Dub influences and if you found you like this one you then get to groove out on Poxfil's other two earlier albums, although quite different than "Who is on my Sofa ?", which are some very ingenious dub that doesn't over bear you with any reminder that it is actually Dub.

I digress.... "Who is on my Sofa ?" is some of the best music I have heard in a long time, most definitely this year. With the music industry awash in the post-internet genre disintegration the album goes from witty raps, passionate i'm-done-with-yous, brilliant comic operatic conceptual pieces to historic sound bits. Most of it you can dance to or just play over and over again.

I am still at a loss to who Poxfil really is. They/he are from France. Are these remixes of other's music? If so, let guy produce, someone, please. How does one guy do male and female voices? I may have to twist a french speaking friend's arm to translate poxfil.net.

From Way Back

Still making the rounds to artists I discovered over a year ago.... I first found Blue Trees, 7 Miles by StrangeZero--a DJ band, I beleive, from Greece. a few of the songs on Blue Trees, 7 Miles I hit the next button on, but over all great stuff. Glad to have some new stuff from Strange Zero.

Ethereal Vibes...

This is what I wanted from the Internet--and it's free....
Skip to the second track if you are impatient to get to the sweet stuff.

About a year ago I discovered Vate on Jamendo.com. I had first described them as the Mexican electronico of Skinny Puppy with Kraftwerk vocals. This was because of a remix of what I, now, know to be Epoxia:



This quipped desciption didn't do them full justice, Although they show signs of the a fore mentioned influences they give the electro/techno genre a good twist of their own. Sample the album "Motor" as well on Jamendo and give " PC Music (Versión Laptop)". it's a great update-take on Computer World. Or is that Music Non-Stop:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/vate http://www.vate.com.mx/

....more soundtracks for my daily commute on the Tokyo densha.