Jansky Noise - Past Present & Future Star Music

We all dream of summer stretching on forever, but even the sweetest season has its limits. There’s only so much heat, so much haze, before the soul starts to long for shade. Steve Hiett understood that balance perfectly—his music carries the shimmer of light but also the quiet ache of its fading.  No wonder Sony’s AOR City 1000 imprint chose to reissue Down On The Road By The Beach (1983) in late August 2017, as if to remind us that summer’s closing chapters are as vital as its beginning. On this record, the radiant pulse of Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, and Booker T. & the MG’s filters through Hiett’s lens, refracted into something wholly his own. In its meditative corners, you catch echoes of The Everly Brothers, The Ventures, and Roy Orbison—spectral voices drifting like heat mirages.  In its broader strokes, it’s a meeting ground where Japanese, American, and English mellow music converge: City Pop, AOR, jazz-fusion, even the minimalism of The Durutti Column, all wove...