Bleep

The first vibraphone solo album by Berlin-based Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita is reissued on Erased Tapes, the London label championing some of contemporary music’s most interesting avant-garde and modern classical experimental musicians. Operating as eight miniature sound illustrations each depicting a natural scene evocative for either its tranquility or excitement, Fujita’s work sways from ambient, to classical, bridging simultaneous divides between jazz and folk as it goes. Created by paying exquisite attention to small and unique sound details (aluminium foil on his vibraphone, the use of a bead as a percussive element) Fujita’s album is a work of boundless beauty and quivering delights. Album highlights include ‘River’, which utilises deep and harmonic string patterns to convey the meandering serenity of flowing water.