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The Essential Satoko Fujii, Part 2: Duos
by Dan McClenaghan
Satoko Fujii releases a lot of albums. Most of them are regular CDs, but she has also moved into the Bandcamp offerings, online only. The Essential Satoko Fujii, Part 1 featured four different sides of her artistry: Solo, duo, trio, quartet and orchestra. Part 2 will showcase some of her outstanding duo discs. Satoko ...
New Music From Julieta Eugenio, Karl Silveira, Francesca Remigi And More
by Bob Osborne
Featured on this week's show are a set of new albums including music from Julieta Eugenio, Karl Silveira, Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Francesca Remigi, Amaury Faye & Igor Gehenot, and Brent Laidler. Also just released the second volume of improvisation from Dave Tucker, Pat Thomas, Thurston Moore, and Mark Sanders. Also a first look at ...
The Essential Satoko Fujii, Part One: Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet and Orchestra
by Dan McClenaghan
Satoko Fujii's recorded output comes at you hard and fast. It can overwhelm. In 2018—in celebration of her sixtieth birthday—the pianist/composer/bandleader released an album a month. Not download offerings, but real, handsomely produced CDs, with top of-the-line cover art and sturdy cardboard covers—jewels for the eye, ear and hand. Several other years have seen a release ...
Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura: Pentas: Tribute to Eric and Chris Stern
by Neri Pollastri
Coppia nella vita e nell'attività artistica, Satoko Fujii e Natsuki Tamura presentano con questo Pentas il loro settimo disco (il primo, How Many, risale al 1997). Registrato a Cracovia, esce per la polacca Not Two, che della Fujii ha pubblicato numerosi lavori. La dedica del sottotitolo è a una coppia di appassionati conosciuti a Cracovia, al ...
Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda: Thread Of Light
by Mark Corroto
Damn the liner notes! If you didn't read the explanation of how this duo recording was produced, you would never guess it was not a studio session between pianist Satoko Fujii and bassist Joe Fonda. Thread Of Light was actually a product of the pandemic isolation, with Fujii in Kobe, Japan, and Fonda in New York. ...
Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda: Thread Of Light
by Karl Ackermann
When pianist Satoko Fujii and bassist Joe Fonda first recorded together in 2016 on Duet, it was a shot in the dark. Neither was familiar with the other's music. Nevertheless, that album generated outstanding synergy between these two master improvisers. So much so, that in a few short years they have recorded five albums together, occasionally ...
Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda: Thread Of Light
by Dan McClenaghan
Music finds a way. The potentially deadly Covid-19 virus and the quarantines cannot stop it; they cannot even slow it down. Resourceful artists continue to create, and pianist Satoko Fujii and bassist Joe Fonda continue to be perhaps the most resourceful and creative voices out there. Thread of Light, the Fujii/Fonda teaming's fifth album ...
Natuski Tamura: Summer Tree
by Karl Ackermann
Natsuki Tamura explodes the conventions of the trumpet. The ironically titled Summer Tree is his fifth solo album though his partner, and here, producer, Satoko Fujii, lends a vocal contribution on one of four extended compositions. Tamura's previous pandemic project, Koki Solo (Libra Records, 2021) was lockdown escapism with an ear toward humor and an eye ...
Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree
by Dan McClenaghan
In 2002, the Natsuki Tamura Quartet released an album called Hada Hada (Libra Records). It sounded as if it was plugged into ten thousand volts, even Tamura's trumpet, and especially Satoko Fujii's synthesizer, in the making of a soundtrack to a “Cyborgs March on the Capitol" movie. And those cyborgs were mad. Odd stuff. In 2022, ...
Futari: Underground
by John Sharpe
Pandemic enforcement of geographic separation in no way inconveniences the adventurous combo of pianist Satoko Fujii and vibraphonist Taiko Saito, working together under the banner Futari. Having explored the option of a virtual band on Mosaic (Libra, 2021) by her This Is It! trio, Fujii tries a different approach on Underground, her second album with Saito ...
