Foodman - Yasuragi Land LP xxx1982 with Thundercat joined on production

with Thundercat joined on production duties by longtime sparring partner Flying Lotus for six spiralling excursions to the outer limits of jazz-funk

Earl was restless in upstate NY and accepted an invite to record in Donaldson's studio in an undisclosed rural coastal town in Northern California

But there’s something in there that crosses social realist songwriting with a weird semi-surreal bend that still feels relevant (I forgot how good a song about a horse apologising for losing a race could actually be)

at a time when the world we share with animals is threatened by environmental destruction

Two Australian garage/punk bands on one record

Foodman - Yasuragi Land LP xxx1982 with Thundercat joined on productionFoodman is Takahide Higuchi, raised and resident in Nagoya, a city between Tokyo and Osaka in central Japan. As a musician, the sense of freedom he found in Juke and Footwork in the early 2010's was a formative influence on his music. He channels that spirit and the sense that everything is a rhythm further out than most. He's produced for other artists and he's in a psych rock trap duo called Kiseki with Bo Ningens Taigen Kawabe, who also guests on