a r t i s t : Yuichiro Fujimoto
t i t l e : The Mountain Record
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : Ahornfelder
g e n r e : Lo-Fi
r l s. d a t e : May/2007
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 50,6 MB
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A collection of peaceful, mostly acoustic instrumentals
establishing small, wonderful moments like a japanese haiku.
Yuichiro Fujimoto was born in 1981 and lives in urayasu chiba,
japan. he has already released two critically acclaimed albums
in the last years and managed to established a very unique
style. his songs are little, open poems, describing a small
moment like a haiku does. the compositions are
simple-strucured, but in this loose way of playing lies the
strength of fujimoto's work. this openess allows the music to
create rooms, situations, to establish an atmosphere beyond
the notes played.
And this what Yuichiro does on "the mountain record" in a most
beautiful way. the nine songs all approach this aim in a
different way. Yuichiros instrumentation covers guitars,
piano, xylophone, electronics and harmonica. All the songs are
little, minimalistic and peaceful instrumentals.
The opening song "listen to november steps" gets by with just
a few notes and a soft humming - already indicating that
complexity is not the goal of this work. the pauses between
the notes are at least as important as the notes itself on
this cd. still this album has a variety of approaches to offer
ranging from paino, pure nature-recordings to electronic
editing.
This work creates wonderful little sceneries which are still
open enough that you sometimes might not even recognize it as
music.
Apart from making music yuichiro fujimoto is a gifted
photographer. the 12-sided booklet offers an insight in his
way capturing scenes as images, closely related to his way of
making music.
Mastering by Greg Davis
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01-listen to november steps 2:54 [02:54]
02-open window (for piano) 3:49 [03:50]
03-handwritten map to sea 2:36 [02:39]
04-to make a fire in that old stove 9:24 [09:27]
05-wooden minimal music 2:17 [02:19]
06-fruit shapes 3:53 [03:56]
07-birds, cows, dogs and bells 3:59 [04:01]
08-history of dreams 4:09 [04:04]
09-the tale of setting sun 3:39 [03:39]
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36:49 min