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Tropical Storm Tour: Thailand Video 3
Shaped exactly like an elephant’s head, Thailand is a vast, sweltering hot tropical kingdom whose landscape ranges from powder white beaches with turquoise water to ultra-green, lush jungles and mountains full of traditional…
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Tropical Storm Tour: Thailand Video 2
Shaped exactly like an elephant’s head, Thailand is a vast, sweltering hot tropical kingdom whose landscape ranges from powder white beaches with turquoise water to ultra-green, lush jungles and mountains full of traditional…
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Tropical Storm Tour: Thailand Video 1
Shaped exactly like an elephant’s head, Thailand is a vast, sweltering hot tropical kingdom whose landscape ranges from powder white beaches with turquoise water to ultra-green, lush jungles and mountains full of traditional…
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Kevin Volans – Orchestral Works
Although I’ve met and come to know a plethora of Kevins throughout my life, I’ve never once met Kevin Volans. Hmmm. How could that be? Perhaps the fact that I live in the…
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Dan Trueman – Nostalgic Synchronic
Containing three-quarters of an hour of room-clearing (except for you and I, of course) digital piano prepared with special effects with nary a conventional melody to be found, Nostalgic Synchronic is a set…
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Arcane Candy’s 2015 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – Tangier Sessions LP (Drag City) • Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band – Juguya LP (Sublime Frequencies) • Arnold Dreyblatt…
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Bryce Dessner + So Percussion – Music For Wood and Strings
Okay, first of all, on the one sheet for this Music For Wood and Strings CD provided by the label, Brassland, it says the piece was commissioned by Carnegie Hall, yet it premiered…
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Massive Vinyl Haul – November 2015
I spent Thanksgiving week visiting a friend up up in Oakland and Berkeley. Amidst endless flurries of chit-chat, bickering, bartering and stuffing our faces, we hit up a bunch of record stores, including…
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RIP: My CD Holder 1998-2015
My old CD holder. Back around 1998, during the height of the CD era, my collection was growing by heaps and bounds, so I needed to find a way to actually listen to…
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Tropical Storm Tour: Heading Home
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Los Angeles, California An information counter in a China Airlines lounge at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Tapei, Taiwan. By the time we entered Tapei airspace around 12:00 am…