Smoking Tigers (Original Score) Masayoshi Fujita

• 1 Bathroom – Night Drive 04:05
• 2 Perfect Family – Sadness Rouge 02:02
• 3 Appa 01:04
• 4 Stealing 02:18
• 5 Model Home Magic Moment 02:19
• 6 Bike – Joon 02:59
• 7 Mama's Piano 01:47
• 8 Loneliness 02:38
• 9 Family Love – Bitter Sweet Growth 02:33
• 10 New Family Love – End Credit 06:46
• Total Runtime 28:31

Info for Smoking Tigers (Original Score)

Masayoshi Fujita
His route to Berlin was a roundabout one. Introduced to music via Bon Jovi, his first stint abroad naturally took him to the motherland of rock, the United States. After a year in the USA, he returned to Japan to study film. His love for movie making, however, proved less pronounced than his admiration for Bon Jovi, a band he can still quote and sing from memory. He decided to learn how to play the drums, followed by extensive vibraphone training to craft and play his own, mostly jazz and electronic-influenced compositions. Determined not to stick to traditional vibraphone styles or techniques, Masayoshi started to prepare his instrument with pieces of metal, strips of foil and similar objects. The resulting new sounds, akin to distortions, help to expand the vibraphone spectrum without eroding the instrument’s intrinsic character or even abandoning it altogether. Besides his extremely reduced and deliberate style of playing, it is this aural redefinition that makes Masayoshi Fujita’s craft so remarkable and noteworthy in my eyes. Literally caught in his spell, it was a delight and privilege to accompany his play. On a different note, Masayoshi’s wood prints should not go unmentioned. The cover and booklet of Bird, Lake, Objects present concise, abstract and monochrome landscapes and thus a visual complement to his music.

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