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Futari: Underground

Read "Underground" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 21, 2021

Pianist Satoko Fujii found another perfect musical partner in 2017, in the Berlin-based mallet maven Taiko Saito, resulting, eventually, in their duo outing Beyond (Libra Records, 2021). The pair dubbed themselves “Futari" ('two people' in Japanese). Underground surfaces as their second 2021 release ("prolific" is a word usually included in a description of Fujii's output).

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Underground

February 2, 2022

Album: Underground
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:55

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Habana's Dream

November 13, 2021

Album: Mosaic
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 9:21

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Ikue Mori, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus

Read "Prickly Pear Cactus" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
October 13, 2021

Questo disco è un esempio dei molti lavori prodotti nel periodo della pandemia, pensati e realizzati a distanza, registrando le parti ciascuno nella propria casa e poi “montandole" con l'uso di software e computer. I tre protagonisti erano appena rientrati in Giappone da un tour statunitense e da una registrazione a New York con ...

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Satoko Fujii & Jim Yanda: Not So Silent In Their Ways

by Doug Collette
September 21, 2021

If it's indeed true that free jazz is an acquired taste, the premise begs the question of whether it's an arbitrary choice or a preference that lies dormant in all musiclovers awaiting only that signal listening experience to pique the natural curiosity and, in turn, awaken an abiding interest to further pursue this arcane field of ...

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Natsuki Tamura: Koki Solo

Read "Koki Solo" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
July 17, 2021

Birthday celebrations have found their way into jazz recordings since the Louis Armstrong era. Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, and Jaco Pastorius have directly baked the cake into album titles while other artists have taken an indirect approach to celebrating. Satoko Fujii broke the mold in 2019 with a new release each month in commemoration ...

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Sekirei

July 22, 2021

Album: Koki Solo
By Natsuki Tamura
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 6:15

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Natsuki Tamura: Koki Solo

Read "Koki Solo" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 15, 2021

In 1983, pop vocalist Cyndi Lauper said, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun." She probably still sings it. Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura has always wanted to have fun, too, playing--in his early days--jazz standards in Japanese clubs where hostesses in negligees sat at stage-side tables drinking room temperature tea masquerading as whiskey at the expense of ardent ...

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Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Keshin

Read "Keshin" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 4, 2021

The Covid-19 virus tightened its grip on the world in 2020, bringing the old “one door closes, another one opens" trope to mind. The door into touring, to presenting music in live venues, slammed shut. But the extra time afforded by the lack of live music opportunities let the recording studio doors swing wide open--especially in ...

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Satoko Fujii / Taiko Saito: Beyond

by John Sharpe
March 28, 2021

Right from the off, the confluence of grainy flicker and humming drone signals that Beyond won't be like other vibraphone/piano hook ups. Under the moniker Futari, Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and her Berlin-based countrywoman vibraphonist Taiko Saito don't so much take the road less traveled as revel in the thickets, brambles and unexpected clearings discovered when ...