2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal funk album Parliament’s Mothership Connection.
Five Ways To Think About Parliament’s Mothership Connection
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置き去られた鏡 The Forsaken Mirror by Chie Matsui 松井智惠 at Gallery Nomart, Osaka 4/20/24
On my last night in Osaka, I scrapped my plan to see a concert whose musicians had not gotten back to me in order to attend a performance at the closing night reception for the solo exhibition 置き去られた鏡 The Forsaken Mirror by the celebrated artist Chie Matsui 松井智惠. From...
KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ Photographer Group “WOMB” (Masami Ueda, Rino Kawasaki, Kalina Leonard, Sana Kohmoto) 10th Anniversary Exhibition (April 26, 2024)
WOMB photographers Masami Ueda, Rino Kawasaki, Sana Kohmoto, and Kalina Leonard in front of the exhibit of WOMB magazines and photo books at their 10th anniversary exhibition at the Kyoto Museum of Photography I had circled the KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ Photographer Group...
Asuca Hayashi 林明日香 — Song of the Earth, Tokyo (May 5, 2024)
On a sunny 5th of May — Children’s Day in Japan — I made my way to what seemed like an unlikely venue, Mifa Football Cafe, for a matinee child/family-friendly concert by the J-Pop singer Asuca Hayashi 林明日香. Mifa is located in Toyosu, which is one of a series of...
The Sound of Freedom: Pianist Hitomi Nishiyama at SUB (Osaka, 4/18/24)
After immersing myself in KYOTOGRAPHIE for several days (I’ll have much more to say about it soon!), I took the train to Osaka. Thanks to Japan’s wonderful high-speed trains, it’s actually a quicker commute than it is from the East Village or Brooklyn to the Upper...
