CLEAR VINYL.
With the new studio album, Fujita continues his musical journey of discovery by consistently moving into unknown territory. After living in Berlin for 13 years, Fujita returned to Japan in 2020 with his wife and three children. There he fulfilled a lifelong dream, because he always wanted to move to the countryside - and live and work in the middle of nature. His family found their new home in the hills near the coast of Kami-cho in Hyogo Prefecture, about three hours west of Kyoto. On the new album, the composer and producer draws fascinating and completely new sounds from the vibraphone, his trademark and core instrument, and at the same time he continues the experiments with marimba and synthesizers that he began on the previous album Bird Ambience (2021). He had previously completed his acclaimed vibraphone triptych, consisting of the albums Stories (2012), Apologues (2015) and Book of Life (2018). As on Bird Ambience, our feathered friends are the central source of inspiration again this time. The album title Migratory refers to an image that came to him when he was thinking about migratory birds that live somewhere between Africa, East Asia and Japan. He imagined them hearing the music of the different regions and lands below them - and how this lived bird's eye view blurs and erases not only the boundaries of music, but also those of countries.
