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Artist......: Satoko Fujii
Album.......: Hazuki
Label.......: Libra Records
Genre.......: Jazz
Catnr.......: 201-063
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2021-04-14
Str.date....: 2021-00-00
Quality.....: 536 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://satokofujii.com
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1. Invisible 7:07
2. Quarantined 8:02
3. Cluster 4:18
4. Hoffen 9:04
5. Beginning 2:14
6. Ernesto 6:38
7. Expanding 7:42
8. Twenty Four Degrees 3:12
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\ / ________ Runtime 48:17
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,: "Pianist-composer Satoko Fujii normally spends months on the :,
: road each year, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made touring :
:' impossible. On her new solo album, Hazuki, she lets the music ':
,: travel for her. Throughout the course of the pandemic, Fujii has :,
: remained committed to her creativity and artistic growth and :
:' determined to present her music, even if she can't do it before ':
,: a live audience. Recorded at home in her piano practice room, :,
: Hazuki is buoyant in the face of adversity, playfully :
:' imaginative, and as adventurous as all her albums typically ':
,: are. It is one of her most delightful and engaging solo outings. :,
: :
:' Recording from home did present one advantage for Fujii. "I ':
,: have been playing my piano for more than 45 years. We know each :,
: other well," she says. "I never expected that I would record on :
:' it, but the COVID-19 situation forced me into doing it. On ':
,: tour, I play a different piano at each concert. Sometimes I :,
: 'meet' annoying pianos, sometimes I 'meet' really great pianos. :
:' It's a gamble. But I have to tell you that it is easy for me to ':
,: play my piano because I already know it very well." :,
: :
:' The mental preparation for recording in the apartment she ':
,: shares with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, presented an :,
: unexpected challenge. "When I'm on tour, I get in a touring :
:' mode. But being at home is being in daily life mode. I had to ':
,: concentrate to get myself in "making music mode" in the middle :,
: of my daily life. For instance, when I did my streaming :
:' concerts, I went into the piano room and performed and after I ':
,: came out from the room, which is very close to the kitchen, :,
: Natsuki was cooking! It was a very strange feeling." :
:' ':
,: Perhaps the most challenging circumstance was a physical one. "I :,
: recorded the album in August," Fujii says. "The weather was :
:' extremely hot, in the 90s. I don't have an air conditioner in ':
,: my piano room, and I need to close the door so the sound doesn't :,
: disturb the neighbors. So in the small piano room, I was :
:' sweating. I put an ice pad on my neck and that helped a bit." ':
,: She commemorates these arduous conditions in the title of the :,
: album-"Hazuki" is an old Japanese word for "August." :
:' ':
,: What emerged from these unusual conditions is one of Fujii's :,
: most diverse and ebullient solo albums. "Invisible" starts out :
:' the album with some of her most imaginative and varied playing ':
,: inside the piano alternating with a haunting keyboard phrase. :,
: She then begins altering the phrase, repeating it with most :
:' variations and embellishing it. The music is lively, but ':
,: deliberately developed. On "Hoffen" (German for "hope"), she :,
: also delves inside the piano, seamlessly integrating piano wires :
:' and keyboard in delicate melodies that grow more lyrical and ':
,: rhapsodic. "Quarantined" develops a natural flow of long weaving :,
: lines interrupted by knots of dense chords. "Beginning" is :
:' similar, with a long sinuous right-hand line punctuated by ':
,: occasional left-hand chords that throw kinks in it. :,
: :
:' Some of the compositions play around with musical ideas. ':
,: "Cluster" puns on the term for an occurrence of disease :,
: outbreaks called "corona clusters" and the musical device of :
:' note clusters, the striking of several notes that are close ':
,: together. The performance is built of ringing note clusters :,
: carefully placed so the overtones created become part of the :
:' music. It's intensely concentrated with every gesture ':
,: furthering the creation of a unique musical vocabulary. When she :,
: composed "Expanding," Fujii deliberately limited the notes and :
:' intervals she could use as a way to create a new vocabulary. ':
,: The dramatic performance stays focused on short, rhythmically :,
: charged phrases that build tension and momentum." :
:' ':
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