whether you like this week's piece or not is gonna depend on which last plane to jakarta you like: the one where where I write in these really long sentences that seem like they're never going to get anywhere and then surprise you when they do, or else they don't and then you're not surprised you're mad & frankly I can't blame you; OR the one where I try to cram as much feeling and information into as little space as I possibly can because the feeling I'm getting off of the music I'm engaged with tells me that to overstate the case will amount to selling the music short

if you like the long sentences version, that opening paragraph was for you. and now, the rest of you, gather 'round:

new age music is going to save your soul

that was originally an album title that I didn't wind up using (I called the album "we shall all be healed" instead) but little did I know that it would turn out to be true. at the time I came up with the title I meant Kitaro or Steve Roach or whoever, you know, the guys in the immersion tanks