Fujita Yosuke, der in der Vergangenheit mit Musikern wie Suzuki Akio oder Yamantaka Eye (Boredoms) gearbeitet hat, ist nach fast zehnjähriger Solo-Pause zurück und bringt unter seinem einprägsamen Projektnamen FUJI||||||||||TA ein neues Album heraus. “Iki”, zu deutsch “Atem”, basiert ganz auf einer vom Musiker vor Jahren selbst gebauten Orgel mit elf Pfeifen. In seiner eher meditativen Ausrichtung unterscheidet sich das Album, das u.a. von traditionellen Gagaku beeinflusst ist, stark vom abstrahierten Charakter früherer Arbeiten.

“FUJI||||||||||TA, real name FUJITA Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist. After countless performances in different contexts either solo or along artists such as Yamantaka Eye of Boredoms and the legendary avant-gardist SUZUKI Akio as well as a slew of solo releases, his LP iki (»breath«) for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label is his first in nine years. On these four pieces, Fujita explores the idiosyncratic sound qualities of the pipe organ he has built all by himself in 2009. This – quite literally unique – instrument features only eleven pipes, an air pump called »fuigo« which was modelled after a traditional blacksmith’s one and has no keyboard. [...] Recorded between September and December of 2019, iki marks the culmination of FUJI||||||||||TA’s ten-year-long work with the instrument that he had built without any prior knowledge and started to teach himself to play without a manual in sight. It is, in other words, the unique result of a unique musical mind paying his dues to the uniqueness of his own creation; introspective and welcoming at once.” (Hallow Ground)