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Distraction Therapy – Living with Delusions – Japan

2026/10/28

A train window holds two worlds for a moment. Outside, trees and railway lines pass in an uneven rhythm. Inside, the glass catches a reflection: [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – Living with Delusions

2026/10/28

There’s a moment when a familiar song stops sounding familiar. A chorus that once passed as entertainment acquires an uncomfortable edge. The rhythm still moves [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – The Turning Year – Autumn Japan

2026/10/21

A leaf catches against a bicycle wheel. Afternoon sunlight reaches between buildings, illuminating a wall that will soon be in shadow. Somewhere beyond the street, [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – The Turning Year

2026/10/21

There is an afternoon in autumn when the light seems to belong to two seasons at once. The sun still carries something of summer, warming [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – Rubber Soul, Open Roads Japan – The Life That Does Not Fit

2026/10/18

A journey can begin long before we have decided where we are going. There is a particular pleasure in stepping out into a city without a [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – Rubber Soul, Open Roads – The Possibility of Another Beginning

2026/10/18

There are times when the world seems to have settled into a familiar pattern. The same journeys, the same conversations, the same expectations. We follow [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – The Turning Light – Autumn Japan

2026/10/07

The change arrives in small intervals. Rain settles on a railing. A leaf rests against the edge of a step. Between passing trains, the sound [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – The Turning Light of Autumn

2026/10/07

Autumn often announces itself through a change in the light. A familiar street looks different on the way home. Shadows settle earlier beneath the trees. [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – Signals Passed On

2026/10/02

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

Distraction Therapy – Machine Pulse

2026/10/02

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

Distraction Therapy – Making Room for Another Voice

2026/09/23

The second part of Building Bridges moves eastwards, but not in search of a simple contrast. This edition of the Distraction Therapy Podcast Mixtape turns towards Japan as a place of encounter: a collection of voices, textures, attitudes and musical possibilities. Source

Distraction Therapy – Building Bridges – A Rhythm Across the Divide

2026/09/23

There is something deceptively simple about a bridge. It joins one place to another and allows movement across a space that would otherwise interrupt the journey. This edition of Distraction Therapy considers connection without requiring agreement. Source

Distraction Therapy – River, Ritual & Ghosts Japan

2026/09/16

The first River, Ritual & Ghosts programme follows an imagined city to the point where its river reaches the sea. This separate Japan episode begins at that horizon and asks what happens when listening crosses it. Source

Distraction Therapy – River, Ritual & Ghosts

2026/09/16

I’ve been reflecting on the way a city can exist in more than one form at the same time. There is the visible city of [...] Source

Distraction Therapy – The Mountain Beyond the Map

2026/09/09

The journey into the mountains continues, but Part Two begins as though we have already reached the end. Boris opens the mix with “Farewell”, placing [...] Source