Sinsuke Fujieda

Sinsuke Fujieda is a Japanese artist, composer, saxophonist, and flutist, and the founder of the independent label SoFa Records.

Rather than treating performance, composition, recording, production, release, and label management as separate disciplines, Fujieda integrates them into a single artistic practice.

His principal creative platform is SINSUKE FUJIEDA GROUP, for which he develops the overall concept, composes the music, and shapes its artistic and musical direction. At the same time, he places strong emphasis on improvisation, interaction, and the possibility for the music to change through the presence of the musicians themselves.

This combination of Fujieda’s strong artistic direction and the spontaneity of a living ensemble is central to his work.

In 2012, following his experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fujieda founded SoFa Records. Through the label, he has built an independent creative system encompassing music production, releases, distribution, and live projects while maintaining artistic ownership of his work.

His practice extends beyond performance alone. For Fujieda, creating the music itself and determining how that music takes form as a work — how it is recorded, produced, presented, released, and brought into the world — are part of the same creative process.

In 2025, SINSUKE FUJIEDA GROUP’s album FUKUSHIMA, released on vinyl by France’s Superfly Records, received significant international recognition. The album reached No. 1 on the Juno Records Jazz Chart and No. 1 on Discogs’ Best-Selling New Releases Chart.

The digital release charted in 62 countries and regions worldwide, including No. 1 in Thailand; No. 2 in Italy, France, Lebanon, South Africa, and Finland; No. 3 in Sweden, Spain, Chile, Belgium, and Taiwan; No. 4 in the United Kingdom; and No. 7 in the United States.

The same year, SINSUKE FUJIEDA GROUP performed at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL on THE PALACE OF WONDER stage.

Following the international response to FUKUSHIMA, the album reached its third pressing in 2026, bringing cumulative vinyl pressings to 9,000 copies.

In October 2026, Fujieda’s own label SoFa Records will release the double LP INFORMEL.

The work reimagines a live performance recorded in Tokyo in 2020 from the perspective of six years later, transforming material from the group’s musical origins into a new work in the present.

Through the process of creating INFORMEL, Fujieda came to recognize an underlying principle in his own practice: to search within what is still without fixed form for a form he can believe in, and to take responsibility for that form through to completion.

For Fujieda, creation is not simply the realization of a predetermined final image.

It is a process of receiving sounds, sensations, people, situations, and chance events that emerge from beneath conscious intention, examining them through the act of making, and gradually bringing them into conscious form as a work.

“I create works in order to bring my own unconscious into consciousness.”

This approach extends across composition, performance, recording, visual presentation, physical formats, label activity, and live expression.

At the core of Fujieda’s work is the philosophy of “turning one’s very existence into music.”

By refusing to separate performance, creation, the body, and everyday life, he explores the relationships between improvisation and structure, spirituality and physicality, individual expression and collective resonance.

Combining silence and intensity, meditation and celebration, his work is rooted in jazz and spiritual jazz while developing an artistic language that resists being fixed within any single form.