Masayoshi Fujita - Stories

“Stories” is the first vibraphone solo album by Berlin-based Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita, also known as El Fog and for a collaboration project with Jan Jelinek. This quietly exquisite album by Fujita is like a book of illustration, painting 8 delicate pictures of small stories about the nature we are embracing….cloud, forest, river, swan and morning dew….things that we are all so familiar with, but yet find so quaint.

Masayoshi Fujita’s style of solo vibraphone is inspired by classical and jazz music. In this beautiful album, in addition to some gorgeous strings, he introduces some ingenious ideas in making unique sounds, like the usage of beads and aluminum foil on his vibraphone, like a prepared instrument. As such, “Stories” is a wonderful result of the beautiful vibration (of which the name Vibraphone came from) of all the delicate sounds produced in this album. They are poetic, they are melancholic, and they are lushly emotional.

Label: Flau