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   In 2018, in honor of our new reissues of prolific musician and producer Haruomi Hosono’s essential albums, we teamed up with dublab and In Sheep’s Clothing’s, a hi-fi bar in downtown Los Angeles, for a night of celebration. Special guest Kuni Murai — famed producer, composer and founder of Alfa Records, joined dublab’s Mark “Frosty” McNeill for a chat about his decades-long working relationship with Hosono, from his days as a session player to his stratospheric success with Yellow Magic Orchestra and beyond. Please note, we have removed the music sections due to right's issues. Photo: Kuni Murai at his...

Long a lusted-after cult artifact among record collectors, Seasons is an anomaly in West Coast jazz keyboardist Pete Jolly's sizable catalog. Produced by Herb Alpert and released by his A&M label in 1970, the album found Jolly branching out beyond his trusty acoustic piano, incorporating Wurlitzer electronic piano, accordion, musette, Sanovox accordion organ, and Hammond B-3 organ. The expanded palette, combined with a new group of musicians besides longtime bassist/Wrecking Crew member Chuck Berghofer, resulted in a stunning departure from Jolly's more traditional outing. As Berghofer—who played with Jolly for nearly 40 years until the keyboardist's death in 2004—relates in...

  Turn on and tune in to the hypnotic vibrations of Hudson River Wind Meditations. Our latest installment of Light in the Attic's Liner Notes illuminates Lou Reed's final solo album, one of his most personal musical works. In this episode, we have the honor of speaking with Eddie Stern, the renowned yoga instructor who taught Lou, along with celebrated artist Laurie Anderson, Lou's longtime partner & wife. Hudson River Wind Meditations combines Reed's love of creating drone music with his passion for Tai Chi, yoga, and meditation. The album's ambient soundscapes have been described as a counterpoint to his...

On October 27th, 2013, we bid farewell to Lou Reed. Last year, on the 10th anniversary of his death, Laurie Anderson hosted a virtual gathering with some of Lou’s friends and collaborators to celebrate his life and work. Photos by Master Ren GuangYi. >>>> Buy Lou Reed's Hudson River Wind Meditations.Explore the Lou Reed Archives.

In celebration of the re-release of Hiroshi Yoshimura's 1986 masterwork Surround, which is being reissued by the record label Temporal Drift, we sat down with Patrick & Yosuke from the label to chat all things Yoshimura.    Light in the Attic: Congrats on the re-release of Surround.  As an undeniable masterpiece (in a catalog full to the brim with so many masterpieces), Surround is like nothing else before or since.  What is it about Hiroshi's music that speaks to you?  Why do you think his art means the world to so many of us?  Patrick McCarthy (Temporal Drift): It can be...