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May 19, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)

By 2018, John Prine had already lived several lifetimes inside one voice. The Tree of Forgiveness arrived after illness, age, and decades of quiet ...

May 16, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay — Flux + Mutability (1989)

“Flux + Mutability does not dominate environments — it alters them from within. The album feels less like a collection of tracks and more like a ro...

May 14, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Ryuichi Sakamoto — 1996 (1996)

Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1996 strips everything back to piano, violin and cello — three instruments, space between notes, and silence allowed to remain s...

May 13, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Donna Summer — Donna Summer (1982) — The Sound of Openness

Discover why Donna Summer’s 1982 self-titled album remains one of the great open-hearted records of its era — Balearic warmth, Quincy Jones product...

May 12, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Bob Marley & The Wailers — Uprising (1980)

Discover why Bob Marley & The Wailers' Uprising remains one of the most human and enduring albums ever recorded — a record of rhythm, dignity, ...

May 12, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Nortec Collective — Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 (2005)

Discover why Nortec Collective’s Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 remains one of the defining albums of border-city electronic music — a record where geogra...

May 11, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Leon Bridges — Coming Home (2015) — Warm Light Through an Open Door

Discover Leon Bridges' Coming Home through the lens of listening culture, Texas atmosphere, and modern soul. A warm, timeless album built on space,...

May 09, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Kool & The Gang — Light of Worlds (1974)

Most people know Kool & The Gang for the celebration — the big choruses, the global crossover. But Light of Worlds, released in 1974, belongs t...

May 08, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Paul Desmond — Take Ten (1963)

Maybe that strange journey from thoughts of Salvador to Paul Desmond was not strange at all in the end. Music does this sometimes. One rhythm opens...

May 07, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Fred again.. — Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (2021)

Discover why Fred again..’s Actual Life became one of the defining emotional albums of modern electronic music — a warm, intimate soundtrack for fr...

May 06, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Serge Gainsbourg — No. 4 (1962)

Discover why Serge Gainsbourg's No. 4 still feels like the sound of France itself — a slow, intimate 1962 record filled with jazz, memory, atmosphe...

May 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Cold Spring Harbor — Billy Joel (1971)

The tape runs at the wrong speed, and somehow that becomes the truest thing about it. This is not the finished version of an artist — it is the mo...

May 02, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Life Time — Tony Williams (1965)

Music that doesn't arrive finished — it becomes · Tony Williams, Blue Note, and the record that changed the role of the drummer · A record still fo...

May 01, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Secret Life — The Sound That Holds You

Discover Secret Life by Fred again.. and Brian Eno through a six-hour train journey — where motion, stillness, and sound blur into one immersive li...

April 28, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Gil Scott-Heron Made This Album With $4,000. It Took 25 Years to Find It.

There is a small studio in Silver Spring, Maryland where two men arrived in September 1973 with $4,000, eight tracks, and something to say that the...

April 22, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Two Records, One Idea — In a Silent Way and Discreet Music

Some connections in music are obvious. But occasionally two records exist in a relationship more interesting than influence — parallel discovery. T...

April 18, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Us3 — Hand on the Torch (1993)

There is a moment near the start of Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) where everything arrives at once. A 1964 piano groove, a trumpet, a rapper's improvis...

April 16, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Four Tet's Sixteen Oceans — The Record That Gets Better Every Time You Listen

This isn't an album that tries to impress you in the first five minutes. Kieran Hebden leaves the edges in, keeps the character of the fragments, a...

April 16, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Live at the Village Vanguard Again! — Staying Inside the Question

There are records you understand as they play. And then there are records that ask you to stay, even when you don't. Live at the Village Vanguard A...

April 15, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Blues & the Abstract Truth — The Quiet Architecture of a First Listen

There is a particular kind of beginning that doesn't announce itself. No fanfare, no urgency — just a record placed on a turntable and a room that ...

April 07, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Bill Evans Trio — Waltz for Debby (1961), The Room That Listened Back

On June 25, 1961, Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian played five sets at the Village Vanguard. Eleven days later, the trio ceased to exist. W...

April 07, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

A New Sound, A New Star, Vol. 1 Jimmy Smith — Blue Note, 1956

In 1956, Jimmy Smith walked into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack with a Hammond B-3 and two years of experience. What came out was Blue Note...

April 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Barry White — Sings for Someone You Love (1977): The Art of Warmth

Barry White's Sings for Someone You Love doesn't ask for your attention. It assumes you'll stay. One of soul music's most generous records — warm, ...

April 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Eddie Henderson — Sunburst (1975): Light Through the Groove

Eddie Henderson's Sunburst doesn't demand your attention. It earns it, patiently, bar by bar — a Blue Note record from 1975 that understands space ...

April 02, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

シャギー・オーティス — インスピレーション・インフォメーション (1974): 聴衆を必要としなかったアルバム

Made almost entirely alone at twenty-one, released to silence, rediscovered thirty years later. Inspiration Information is the sound of complete cr...

April 02, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

シャーデー — ダイアモンド・ライフ (1984): 耳を傾ければ、その声がすべてを語る

Diamond Life is not a smooth record. It is an honest one. The composure is the point — and underneath it, if you listen properly, she is telling yo...

April 01, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Fred again.. — USB: 終わらないアルバム

Fred again.. built a different kind of album — one that refuses to finish, keeps growing, and sounds like it was made by someone who cannot stop he...

2026年3月28日ラフィ・マーサー

76:14 by Global Communication: 自身の収録時間から名付けられたアルバム

The album that named itself after its own duration and asked you to stay for all of it. Global Communication's 76:14 is one of the great ambient re...

2026年3月17日ラフィ・マーサー

Space Is Only Noise — ニコラス・ジャーとミニマル・エレクトロニック・サウンドの芸術 (2011)

A cinematic exploration of Nicolas Jaar’s Space Is Only Noise — a record where silence, space, and sound reshape how we listen. Discover the album ...

March 16, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Vila — ファビアーノ・ド・ナシメントとモダン・ブラジリアン・ギターの響き (2026)

A nylon-string guitar moves quietly through the room. On Vila, Fabiano do Nascimento shows how restraint, warmth, and space can transform a simple ...

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Orchestra Baobab — あらゆるスタイルを極めた (2002)

ダカールで最も優雅なオーケストラによる優美な帰還 — アフロ・キューバンギター、温かいホーン、そして忍耐強いリズムが夜の空気を漂います。

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

Cheikh Lô — Ne La Thiass (1996)

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

ババ・マール — 『ジャム・リーリー』（1989年）

A luminous acoustic masterpiece where Baaba Maal’s voice and gentle guitar rhythms capture the quiet landscapes of northern Senegal.

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

ユッスー・ンドゥール — 『イミグレ』（1984年）

A landmark mbalax album where sabar drums and soaring vocals transform Dakar’s traditional rhythms into modern West African pop.

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

オーケストラ・バオバブ — 『パイレーツ・チョイス』（1982年）

A hypnotic Afro-Cuban groove from Dakar’s most elegant orchestra — slow, spacious rhythms that feel like midnight drifting across the Atlantic.

March 10, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

ブライアン・ジャクソン — EP Two (2026)

Discover Brian Jackson’s EP Two — a soulful bridge between spiritual jazz and deep house, where Rhodes keys, Masters At Work grooves and late-night...

March 09, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Madvillainy』 — MF DOOM & Madlib (2004)

Discover Madvillainy by MF DOOM and Madlib — a hip-hop masterpiece of dusty samples, playful lyricism, and crate-digging creativity that rewards li...

March 09, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Black on Both Sides』 — モス・デフ (1999)

Discover Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides — a soulful hip-hop classic where warm production, poetic storytelling, and late-night city rhythm meet in o...

March 07, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Below the Heavens』 — Blu & Exile (2007)

A young voice searching for purpose over sun-drenched soul loops, Below the Heavens captures the fragile moment when ambition meets reality. Blu an...

March 06, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Cabin in the Sky』 — De La Soul (2023)

Sometimes a record doesn’t arrive like a statement. It arrives like a broadcast — warm, slightly crackling at the edges, as if someone somewhere ha...

March 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

アジムス — 『アジムス』（1975年）

Discover Azymuth (1975) — the Brazilian jazz-fusion classic blending samba, funk and electric piano grooves into one of the smoothest listening rec...

March 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『The Universe Smiles Upon You』 — Khruangbin (2015)

Discover Khruangbin’s The Universe Smiles Upon You (2015) — a hypnotic blend of psychedelic funk and Thai-inspired grooves perfect for late-afterno...

March 04, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『幻影と生きる方法』――坂本慎太郎（2012年）

Discover Shintaro Sakamoto’s How to Live with a Phantom (2012) — a dreamy blend of psychedelic soul and soft funk that drifts perfectly through lat...

March 03, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Philharmonics』 — アグネス・オベル (2010)

Discover Philharmonics by Agnes Obel — a 2010 album of piano-led restraint and northern European clarity that rewards deep, intentional listening.

March 03, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

ツーリスト — 『セント・ジェルマン』（2000年）

Discover Tourist by St Germain — a 2000 classic blending jazz and deep house into a refined, late-night European groove that still feels timeless.

March 03, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『All Melody』 — ニルス・フラーム (2018)

Discover All Melody by Nils Frahm — a 2018 album where classical craft meets analogue design, creating an architectural listening experience that r...

February 25, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

ウィリアム・オニエアバー — ウィリアム・オニエアバーとは誰か？ (2013)

William Onyeabor’s Who Is William Onyeabor? is Nigerian synth-funk decades ahead of its time — mechanical grooves, deep basslines, and quiet futuri...

February 24, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

シベリウス — 交響曲第2番（1902年）

Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 is Finland in musical form — expansive, restrained and quietly powerful, a landscape carved into orchestral architecture.

February 23, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

モーリス・ルーカ — 『エレファンティーン』（2019年）

Maurice Louca’s Elephantine (2019) is a dense, immersive journey through Cairo’s experimental sound — a record that rewards slow listening and reve...

February 18, 2026 ラフィ・マーサー

『Original Pirate Material』 — The Streets (2002)

Twenty-three years after Original Pirate Material, the piano in “Weak Become Heroes” still rises like light over grey concrete — a reminder...

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The Tracks & Tales Guide Listening Albums

John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay — Flux + Mutability (1989)

Ryuichi Sakamoto — 1996 (1996)

Donna Summer — Donna Summer (1982) — The Sound of Openness

Bob Marley & The Wailers — Uprising (1980)

Nortec Collective — Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 (2005)

Leon Bridges — Coming Home (2015) — Warm Light Through an Open Door

Kool & The Gang — Light of Worlds (1974)

Paul Desmond — Take Ten (1963)

Fred again.. — Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020) (2021)

Serge Gainsbourg — No. 4 (1962)

Cold Spring Harbor — Billy Joel (1971)

Life Time — Tony Williams (1965)

Secret Life — The Sound That Holds You

Gil Scott-Heron Made This Album With $4,000. It Took 25 Years to Find It.

Two Records, One Idea — In a Silent Way and Discreet Music

Us3 — Hand on the Torch (1993)

Four Tet's Sixteen Oceans — The Record That Gets Better Every Time You Listen

Live at the Village Vanguard Again! — Staying Inside the Question

Blues & the Abstract Truth — The Quiet Architecture of a First Listen

Bill Evans Trio — Waltz for Debby (1961), The Room That Listened Back

A New Sound, A New Star, Vol. 1 Jimmy Smith — Blue Note, 1956

Barry White — Sings for Someone You Love (1977): The Art of Warmth

Eddie Henderson — Sunburst (1975): Light Through the Groove

シャギー・オーティス — インスピレーション・インフォメーション (1974): 聴衆を必要としなかったアルバム

シャーデー — ダイアモンド・ライフ (1984): 耳を傾ければ、その声がすべてを語る

Fred again.. — USB: 終わらないアルバム

76:14 by Global Communication: 自身の収録時間から名付けられたアルバム

Space Is Only Noise — ニコラス・ジャーとミニマル・エレクトロニック・サウンドの芸術 (2011)

Vila — ファビアーノ・ド・ナシメントとモダン・ブラジリアン・ギターの響き (2026)

Orchestra Baobab — あらゆるスタイルを極めた (2002)

Cheikh Lô — Ne La Thiass (1996)

ババ・マール — 『ジャム・リーリー』（1989年）

ユッスー・ンドゥール — 『イミグレ』（1984年）

オーケストラ・バオバブ — 『パイレーツ・チョイス』（1982年）

ブライアン・ジャクソン — EP Two (2026)

『Madvillainy』 — MF DOOM & Madlib (2004)

『Black on Both Sides』 — モス・デフ (1999)

『Below the Heavens』 — Blu & Exile (2007)

『Cabin in the Sky』 — De La Soul (2023)

アジムス — 『アジムス』（1975年）

『The Universe Smiles Upon You』 — Khruangbin (2015)

『幻影と生きる方法』――坂本慎太郎（2012年）

『Philharmonics』 — アグネス・オベル (2010)

ツーリスト — 『セント・ジェルマン』（2000年）

『All Melody』 — ニルス・フラーム (2018)

ウィリアム・オニエアバー — ウィリアム・オニエアバーとは誰か？ (2013)

シベリウス — 交響曲第2番（1902年）

モーリス・ルーカ — 『エレファンティーン』（2019年）

『Original Pirate Material』 — The Streets (2002)

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