Category: Reads

Creating a Japanese Ambient Music Album in 2018: How “Postcards” was made

March 17, 2020 4:13 am Published by TheKyotoConnection 1 Comment

A year and a half ago, our tribute to the great era of Japanese Ambient Music was released. Fast-forward today it’s reception took us by surprise. It’s reaching 300.000 plays on Youtube (that’s far more our average on the channel) and many more downloads/plays in other music platforms. After Wake... Read More

A drop of dew (from “Kotto”, by Lafcadio Hearn – 1903)

February 29, 2020 2:06 pm Published by TheKyotoConnection 1 Comment

To the bamboo lattice of my study-window a single dewdrop hangs quivering. Its tiny sphere repeats the colours of the morning,—colours of sky and field and far-off trees. Inverted images of these can be discerned in it,—also the microscopic picture of a cottage, upside down, with children at play before... Read More