https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUjnCXw9xs&feature=youtu.be Mkwaju Ensemble - Maximum Alpha From Mkwaju Ensemble - Ki-Motion Released on Better Days, 1981, Japan Mkwaju Ensemble is a Japanese unit formed by two percussionists , Midori Takada (whose solo album, Through The Looking Glass, recently gained a huge fame) and Yoji Sadanari. Ki-Motion is their second album but their only two albums were…Lire la suite INVISIBLE MAZE
Music From The Living Room
INTERNATIONAL LOVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvSopsDP17w&feature=youtu.be Grammacks International - Children Take Good Care From Grammacks International - Ou Pa Bon Cauchemard Released on 3A Productions, 1977, France There have been quite a lot of French Caribbean compilation LPs or reissues since for a few years new, mainly focussing on Funk-influenced music, and it's still going on. We already discussed it…Lire la suite INTERNATIONAL LOVE
STILL WATERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxjp6cHNwho René Aubry & Jean Schwarz - Five Women Still Waters: Ballet De Carolyn Carlson Released on Celia Records, 1986, France Carolyn Carlson is a major choreographer in France who worked with some of the most important figures from the experimental and "musique concrète" scenes including Philippe Besombes, Jean Schwarz and her husband, René Aubry, whose…Lire la suite STILL WATERS
CASTLES IN SPAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVxUK1S_EWk Orquesta De Las Nubes - El Orden Del Azar From Orquesta De Las Nubes - El Orden Del Azar Released on Linterna Música, 1985, Spain A few months ago we made a post about Pep Llopis's third album, released on what we consider to be a major label in the Spanish Ambient Scene, Grabaciones…Lire la suite CASTLES IN SPAIN
PECKER POWER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWb5O5WDxA Tony Koba - Kageki - Radical & Musical From Tony Koba - Rough & Smooth Released on Better Days, Japan, 1981 Tony Koba is a Jazz-Fusion musician who plays the drum on various Japanese Jazz records in the late 1970's - early 1980's, but we won't talk about him. The main interest of Kageki…Lire la suite PECKER POWER
ASIA DREAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBocJA9mV4 Mu Project - Asia Dream From Mu: Pradʒékt - Asia Dream Released on For Life Records, 1985, Japan When most people think about Asia, the first ideas that pop in their mind are high technology, something about a high-degree of sophistication in Asian people's everyday-life , myths filled with magical creatures and ghosts, etc. Well,…Lire la suite ASIA DREAM
SPEAKING CREOLE #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=973P48Xuj1A Roger Melt - L'Am'Ou Dans Bois From Roger Melt - Pleine Lune Released on G.K. Records, 1984, U.K. If you're into record digging, you cannot ignore the tremendous hype that "Antillais" records now have, from Gwo Ka albums to Electro-Zouk. A friend who owns a record store recently told us that he was astonished…Lire la suite SPEAKING CREOLE #2
SAXOPHONE / COMPUTER / ITALY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyCMKmyseA Riccardo Sinigaglia - Attraverso (Part I) From Riccardo Sinigaglia - Riflessi Released on Auf Dem Nil, 1986, Italy Italian musician and architect Riccardo Sinigaglia studied music at Milan Conservatory with its Maestro of electronic music, Angelo Paccagnini, in the 1970's. He later became a teacher at this prestigious conservatory, where he developed his own vision of that…Lire la suite SAXOPHONE / COMPUTER / ITALY
ESOTERIC GUITAR VOL.2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlGJmZLhII Forrest Fang - Peru From Forrest Fang - Migration Released on Ominous Thud, 1986, US We never spoke about American ambient on Okonkole Y Trompa, yet. Well it's time to do it ! Forrest Fang is a Chinese American composer who emerges from the "American Cassette Culture" movement (a movement supported by the fanzine and label…Lire la suite ESOTERIC GUITAR VOL.2
EVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQ0CTwshHU Évé - Canto Alberto From Évé - Canto Alberto Released on Free Lance, France, 1978 Évé, also known as Everaldo Marcial is a French Brazilian Guitarist and composer. He made what seems to be his only solo album, Canto Aberto in 1978 on a confidential French label called Free Lance which mainly released Jazz and…Lire la suite EVE