Ilpo Jauhiainen
Another instance of an artist and a musician in one is Ilpo Jauhiainen, a Finn who’s lived in a number of cities abroad, notably in London, Tokyo, and Berlin (weeks ago I featured his
The Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud
Sunday evening has rolled around again, and so it’s time once more for a Soundcloud round-up – though not, I hope, of any by now usual suspects. An older project of the London singer, songwriter
Tracks to Travel by: A Playlist for the Road
While I am traveling, what could be better, in lieu of a more regular schedule of posts on this site, than an international playlist of twenty-five tracks meant to fill those empty
Alloapm
A duo of producers and DJs in Tokyo, Malc Yacob and Amelie Mirror Adnis, has recently begun to make music of its own under the moniker Alloapm, and it’s exciting stuff; it, along with the
Hayato Takeuchi
Judging from afar, by the composers and others who live there whom one comes across from time to time on systems like Youtube and Soundcloud, the musical scenes in Tokyo must be as diverse as they
Daisuke Tanabe
The erstwhile art student Daisuke Tanabe is a DJ and electronic musician in Tokyo who’s lived in London and is currently represented by the Berlin record label
Nico
Nico (Christa Päffgen, 1938-1988) remains a fierce presence even nearly twenty-five years on. Some of the most prominent female singers of today owe quite a bit to her and to facets
Samm Bennett et al.
Born in Alabama and having lived in Boston, Nigeria, various European countries, and New York – where he was well-known in the experimental music scene – before settling in Tokyo
