Tag: Tashi Wada

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

With the release of her debut album just days before her 29th birthday, Tems already feels like something of the grand dame of Afropop. Even more than Tiwa Savage, who provided backing vocals for the likes of George Michael, Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan before graduating from the Berklee College of Music, it is Tems the self-starter with...

From the wobbly revolutions of the title track which opens What Is Not Strange?, the composer and synthesist Tashi Wada remains firmly committed to the bit, a smudged exploration of the undersides of things which elides the abstract and personal, the natural by way of foliage or more particularly satoyama, a Japanese term for the liminal zone between arable...