Tag: Ayumi Ishito

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Reuniting for the first time in more than a decade, the Philadelphia favourites and Flying Sutra duo of Robert Cozzolino and George Draguns add Ayumi Shito to the mix as they sail Out Beyond Orbit. This is Ishito's third collaboration with Draguns this year following the second volume of Roboquarians - a spiky offering which also features the drummer Kevin...

At its most sinister the new album by Ayumi Ishito might evoke a dystopia which already seems to be creeping over the horizon, a seeping and bubbling, satiny black ooze which lurches ever closer as we continue to go about our business, doing the weekly shopping and picking up the kids from school or walking the dog in some...