A year in reads: 2016

On the turntable:  Captain Beefheart, "Trout Heart Replica"

KJ #87

My review of Kato David Hopkins book, "Dokkiri! Japanese Indies Music 1976-1989: A History and Guide" is in the latest issue of the always wonderful Kyoto Journal. 

Copies make for wonderful Xmas gifts, and are available here:

http://www.kyotojournal.org/current-issue-digital-edition/


On the turntable:  Can, "Soon Over Babaluma"
On the nighttable:  Nigel Barley, "Island of Demons"

Sunday Papers: Knut Hamsun

"I do not hold the perverse belief of old men generally, that I am wiser than I was. And I hope I may never grow wise; ’tis a sign of decrepitude. If I thank God for life, it is not by virtue of any riper wisdom that has come to me with age, but because I have always taken a pleasure in life. Age gives no riper wisdom; age gives nothing but age."
--The Wanderer


On the turntable:  Calexico, "The Guard (sdtk)"

Sunday Papers: Napolean Bonaparte

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."


On the turntable:  Bruce Springsteen, "The River"

The Cresting Wave of Junya Ishigami

The final piece of the eight-part architecture series for ZenVita, about the fairytale designs of Junya Ishigami...

http://www.zenvita.com/blog/the-cresting-wave-of-junya-ishigami.html


On the turntable:  Charles Lloyd Quartet, "Paris 1967"

Sunday Papers: George Orwell

"In all novels about the East the scenery is the real subject-matter."


On the turntable: The Kyoto Connection, "Kyoto Soundscapes"
On the nighttable:  George Orwell, "The Road to Wigan Pier"

Omishima, Oshima, Majima

Sixth and final post in the Inland Sea series about following in the wake of Donald Richie.

http://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-city-guides/omishima


On the turntable:  Chick Corea, "Waltz for Bill Evans"