All too often we limit ourselves to just a few well-known kinds, not realizing the vast wealth of other flavours we are missing. My next album will look at some of these largely ignored fruits, with the hope of encouraging you to find space in your garden.

When we first approached our beadmakers with sketches and plastic ladybugs it took a bit of convincing to have them made. We had to first find a tool which produced the right size disc shaped bead. And our beadmakers were convinced no one would buy them — they have been successful from the first shipment more than 8 years ago.

‎"I believe that people's real voices are expressed in their emotions. It's not something that you really say. It's more something that you have in your heart. Maybe it's something you haven't said yet. Maybe you're never going to say it. But it's your true voice. Instrumental music is very similar. We don't have any words or any lyrics to go with it. It's the true voice that we don't really put into words, but we feel it when it's real." (Hiromi Uehara) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.