Jazz Articles about Bisk

Bisk: Moonstruck Parade

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 2001

Not one to sell short his greatest talent, Bisk (aka Naohiro Fujikawa) titled his 1996 debut release Time. It was a revolution in digital music. Bisk treated the sampler and the sequencer with healthy disrespect, building up richly textured counterpoint only to tear it apart with a smirk and head on off elsewhere. His rhythms reflected as much hip-hop spunk as jazz swing.

Five years and three records later, Bisk still offers the same signature quirkiness and attention to detail. ...