Fujiwara Yuki

Glass Colored Lily

Label: Defkaz

Genre: Jazz / Avant Garde

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This is the first release from the Japanese shinobue and flute player Yuki Fujiwara. Boarding Yuki's musical ship feels as if the pier exists in a strange space between the past and the future going to a journey to a land which is not here anymore and is not still there.

Bill Laswell about the record

''This is a recording of very unique musicians. Everyone had a deep understanding of music from different cultures, including Japan. Think of it as a new cultural ensemble with everyone bringing their experiences to the overall sound. Japanese musicians - Yuki and Mitsuhiro brought their very own strong statements and presents. I should say this session was a Ichigo-Ichie: once-in-a-lifetime sound encounter.''

''Today, we were transforming all the elements into sound....
I think this recording speaks that way.''

''For this recording, I decided to use a different bass. It's an Ovation custom made, an 8-string, very different from my normal 4-string. It's possible to create a lot of harmonics which is good for the tonality of this configuration.''

''Music is everything to me. I try to channel to the world and transform all the elements into sound.''

''No such thing as silence. Everything is sound becoming music.''

Fotis Nikolakopoulos FreeJazz Blog

''But Glass Colored Lilly is not just a modern take on Japanese traditions, not at all. Small details on the production and small scale contributions from all the musicians reveal a soundworld. Improvisational small scale additions like Sonoyama’s short sax phrases, notes by Apfelbaum on the keys, the rich weirdness of Laswell’s bass (much more melodic that anything I heard for a long time) and, of course, the humble, egoless not centered on keeping any rhythm, playing by Adam Rudolph on percussion''

Yuki Fujiwara: Shinobue
Mitsuhiro Sonoyama: Sax
Peter Apfelbaum: Keys, Clarinet, Flute
Will Bernard: Guitar
Bill Laswell: 8-string bass, EFX
Adam Rudolph: Percussion

Mix-translation: Bill Laswell
Engineering: James Dellatacoma
Recorded & Mixed at Orange Music Studio, West Orange, NJ
Mastering: Masahiro Tabayashi (Nippon Columbia.Co.,ltd.)
Thanks to Ryo Togawa
Management: Yoshinori “YOSHI” Watanabe (Nicholson & Co.) JAPAN
Photographer: Madoka Shibazaki / Hair and Make Up: Haruna Sato
Coordination: Yoko Yamabe
Graphic Design: ajax19
Supervised by Iannis Koufaelas