green - Hiroshi Yoshimura
Light in the Attic's 2020 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura's cult ambient work "Green" might rank as the only genuinely miraculous event in the year of COVID. It is an album to help us embrace…
Yoshiko Sai - Taklamakan
Yoshiko Sai released four psych-folk classics from 1975 to 1978 before disappearing from the recording scene for three decades, returning only for 2008's "Takla Makan."
v/a - reach
...it’s the human touch of Numero’s brave curation and sequencing that make this work much more than a turgid “Spotify Discover Weekly” laid into wax. Organic and digital sounds commingle gently throughout, and the human voice appears so sparsely that each line, even a man documenting birdcall, is imbued with great emotional weight.
the round up: W2NG 89.9 FM
This portrait of the 70s in all its smooth self-indulgence is painted instead by private press also-rans, dollar store Gerry Raffertys and quickly-marooned yacht rockers.