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Day 9 / 2024.S7.E9 - A Crowded Trek (混んでいた旅) Play a record that is at least 90min long. Aki Takahashi - Piano Space 3x 60+ minute LPs of 20th-century modernist solo piano. not something i break out all that often but it really is an achievement! appreciate having an enticement to revisit (not...

Day 8 / 2024.S7.E8 - No Music, No Life (音楽なし、生活なし) Play a record that you recently purchased (within the last three months) from your local record store. Anna Domino - This Time Tricky one! I'm trying to stick with Japanese artists for this month's challenge; although I've picked up a good...

I guess pastoral, unfussy prog is just post-rock? Anyway, this fits the bill: state river widening - s/t (1999) UK trio playing fairly anonymous (but supremely pleasant) instrumental post-rock that sounds a lot like the "Directions in Music" LP that came out on Thrill Jockey in 1996. I picked...

love this record to bits (and i’ve never watched or read anything related to LOTR) if all prog was this pastoral and unfussy, I’d feel much differently about the genre as a whole

Day 7 / 2024.S7.E7 - Everything, Everywhere All at Once (万事、随所同時に) Logic System - Venus YMO/Tomita programmer Hideki Matsutake & co. going ham on the synths. back cover info gives a sense of the excess on display (including the indelible line, “IF YOU DON’T LISTEN THIS ALBUM, YOU CAN’T ENJOY THE...

Day 6 / 2024.S7.E6 - In another season… (別な季節に) Ichiko Hashimoto - Ichiko (Music Interior, 1984) Hashimoto is an interesting figure—her best known works are a handful of 80s art-pop records, and she also made some jazz fusion and anime soundtracks. But her solo career started with this lovely...

Day 5 / 2024.S7.E5 - Simplicity (単純) Aki Tsuyuko - ongakushitsu freeform solo electric piano that all sounds a bit like dream sequence music from a midcentury arthouse movie. it’s timbrally soothing like ambient music but harmonically distressing like atonal modernist composition. one of those...

tommy boyce & bobby hart - i wonder what she’s doing tonite!

Day 4 / 2024.S7.E4 - Why are there so many like this? (どうしてこんな物が多くあるん？) Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green (standard black!)

Day 3 / 2024.S7.E3 - Childhood Memories (子供時代の思い出)

sick haul! that zani diabate & super djata band is a slept-on scorcher and “juju music” is one of my favorite records of all time.

Oh man! Some very pleasing grabs to-day Excellent condition, OG stereo pressing of one of my favorite soul LPs! Price goes up and down on this one but $20 is an absolute steal. Might still need to source a mono at some point though—this is some very stereo, and the mix quality really varies...

Day 2 / 2024.S7.E2 - A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity (一期一会) Kimio Eto - Koto Master Here's one that I had a strong connection with immediately. I collected records a bit in high school and college (cd's mostly) but really got obsessed while I was in grad school from 2011-2017. I wasn't exactly...

definitely a special album for me as well. lock screen code for my phone is 281433 😅

Day 1 / 2024.S7.E1 - Welcome to Japan! (日本へようこそ!) Shizuka — Lunatic Pearl

libraness - yesterday and tomorrow’s shells long out of print solo LP by Polvo guitar wiz Ash Bowie, not super valuable but i’d never seen a used copy until it showed up on the 1234Go site. really glad i picked it up, so many earbending melodies and weird lo-fi production curveballs to sink my...

cerberus shoal - homb picked this one up in the plaid room sale and am very, very glad i did so. i wasn't huge on this band in their day but always recognized they were unusual among their post-rock peers, and as my listening has grown to accommodate more of the middle-eastern and tribal...

the style council - my ever changing moods