Distraction Therapy – The Turning Light – Autumn Japan

Music rarely travels in a straight line. Ideas move between people, places and generations. A rhythm developed in one studio appears years later in another form. This edition of the Distraction Therapy Podcast Mixtape follows some of those transmissions through Japanese music. Source

There is a particular moment in popular music when the machine stops sounding like an imitation of musicians and begins to suggest an entirely different way of experiencing time. This edition of the Distraction Therapy Podcast Mixtape moves through that moment. Source

The first River, Ritual & Ghosts programme follows an imagined city to the point where its river reaches the sea. This separate Japan episode begins [...] Source

There is something deceptively simple about a bridge. It joins one place to another. It allows movement across a space that would otherwise interrupt the journey. [...] Source