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February 16, 2022

Hi-fi Haunts: The Little Jerry – Toronto, Canada

Talk less and listen more is an unspoken code amongst patrons of Japanese listening bars and cafes known as kissaten or kissa. It is to these kissa which ‘listening bars’ opening around the globe in the last several years can trace their roots, including Toronto’s The Little Jerry, a kissa of a more social stripe.

March 9, 2022

Heavy Rotation: Live at Massey Hall 1971 – Neil Young

Featuring only Neil Young, several guitars and a grand piano on the stage, sad, lonely, bleak and poignant would all be suitable descriptors for the set list which make up Live At Massey Hall. Only eight out of the 18 songs performed during the evening’s second set had been previously recorded.

March 13, 2022

The Lost Art of Jazz Kissa Revealed in Two New Books

Placing a jazz album from the early ’60s onto a turntable and playing it is akin to time travel, so too, is going through one of Katsumasa Kusunose’s glossy publications exploring the rarified world of authentic Jazz Kissa.

March 18, 2022

Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection from the Arab World Part 2

If you’ve not had exposure to the incredibly diverse and highly addictive music genres of the Arab world – then I can think of no greater album to explore this eclectic, groove and hook-laden trove of hits than Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection from the Arab World Part 2.