Category Archives: Editorials

My opinionated rants and other matters.

Fractale’s ED and Japan’s Nostalgic Drive Toward Irish Music

By zzeroparticle | Published: January 6, 2012

Today’s guest post comes courtesy of TWWK over at Beneath the Tangles and I have to say that we’re in for an ethnomusicological treat. Now, ethnomusicology has always been an interesting area of study and I’m sorry to say that I just haven’t had the opportunity to dig into it further because it’s interesting to [...]

Posted in Editorials | Tagged Editorial, Fractale, Irish music, OP/ED, William Butler Yeats | 21 Comments

Previewing the Music For Winter 2012′s Anime Season

By Anime Instrumentality Staff | Published: December 29, 2011

Intro by zzeroparticle: For those of you who follow this site pretty closely, you may have noticed that the Fall 2011 preview was conspicuously absent. School hammered me pretty hard and I just wasn’t able to find the time to put it together. To make amends, allow me to say this: Kousuke Yamashita’s work on [...]

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5 Ways to be More Engaged with Your Music

By Aftershok | Published: November 26, 2011

It’s easy to see music as a one-way road. We may at times see listening to music as a disengaged activity, passive observation. It’s a final product presented to us, the end consumer, as a finished work for us to enjoy; is there any need to mentally invest ourselves?

Also posted in General | Tagged engaged, just, listening, lists, making, methods, more, music, now, stuff, up, ways | 17 Comments

Previewing the Music For Summer 2011′s Anime Season

By Aftershok | Published: July 1, 2011

It’s that time of year again, and, with zzero currently busy making sure he doesn’t start WWIII and harming US-Japan relations, I have taken it upon myself to put together this preview of the music of this coming summer anime season. Those looking for frivolous trifles like “plot,” “seiyuu,” and other non-musical staffers can go [...]

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2010′s Anime Music in Review – Intros/Outros Edition

By Anime Instrumentality Staff | Published: June 11, 2011

While much of our staff’s focus tends to fall on the BGM/instrumental tracks, the vocal stuff isn’t forgotten since a lot of it does serve as a first impression of sorts as to what we should expect out of an anime. So with that thought in mind, we shall strive for completing the musical experience [...]