Nobuo Ariga – SHERBET, 1987

Delighted to share a record here after a long hiatus, and delighted that it’s this one. (Hello, hi! Thank you for your patience, and for being here, and for the sweet emails that I haven’t responded to because I don’t know how to email anymore, sorry!)

SHERBET is one of the more apt album titles that comes to mind–it feels like a candy-toned icy sugar cloud. (Also realizing as I type this that my boyfriend was correct when he said a few years back that sherbet is due for a resurgence in interest–it does seem like the most proto-vaporwave dessert, no? Suddenly consumed with a strong desire to bust out my ice cream machine.)

Nobuo Ariga only released three records under his own name, none of which seemed to pick up much traction as it took me a long to track this one down, but he was prolific as a writer and session musician on a ton of other pop releases. If you like any of the following, you will probably like this record:

  • The Beach Boys
  • jingly Christmas bells in non-Christmas songs
  • Ice Choir
  • fretless bass
  • city pop
  • judicious use of reverb

Enjoy, thanks for being here, more soon!

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15 thoughts on “Nobuo Ariga – SHERBET, 1987”

      1. yeah it’s frustrating, but i’m not sure of another upload site i can use that doesn’t have an expiration window for files, has a reasonable file size limit, doesn’t require you to have an account in order to upload or download, has a pretty chill legal policy (i.e. after i hit a certain number of strikes on mediafire, they deleted all of my many many uploads), and is accessible in all countries. if a site like this exists please let me know!

        1. I think ZS is absolutely fine, a modicum of work on our end to get Tor is not a big ask. More power to your elbow.

  1. Welcome back!
    This is great! Thank you so much for this.
    I needed something to make me feel more positive about the world.
    Please post more.

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