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"Rebuilding Vibes" is the latest album by El Fog, the solo
project of Berlin-based Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita, whose wonderful
works ranges from Dub and Jazz, to Hip Hop and Electoronica.
Among other things, one can notice distinctively in this gorgeous album
is Fujita's attempts to pursue the new possibilities of sounds in vibraphone.
We hear mellow individual phrases with a twist of Jazz, strong impact
rhythm production with intricately inlaid click noises, vibrancy of
vibraphone's sounds with groovy manipulations like loop, over dub, cut
and paste, self sampling, processing and so on. This album is smoky
and beautifully built with gorgeous acoustic space. It is, for sure,
like nothing else you've heard before.
"Rebuilding Vibes" is tastefully mixed by the awesome AOKI
takamasa, who also contributed the cover art for the album. Stephan
Betke a.k.a. pole, mastered the album.
-tracklist-
01. Broken
02. Waterfall
03. März
04. Flip and Dub
05. Autumn
06. Patterns
07. Space for the Rebuilding
08. Puddlespots and Moonbeams
09. Above
10. November
11. !
12. Dunst
-reviews-
it could possibly be one of my albums of the year already, it's a wonderful
exercise in deep, late night listening - smokey, sultry and cerebral -
one for those candlelit, contemplative moments - scanner fm
a stray fragment of Pharoah Sander's "Astral Travelling" washed
up o a distant shore. Lonnie Liston Smith's infinite electric keyboards
still reverberating, the tide lapping over it back and forth. - wire
minimal and electronically infused suggesting the strong influences of
Dub and Jazz as well as an appreciation for subtlety and space...thoroughly
tasteful stuff. - norman records
a cross between FS Blumm and early Dabrye, with other points of reference
coming by way of early Ninja Tune as well as more experimental labels
like Mego and Raster-Noton. - indieville
exploring the spaces between echo-covered vibraphone and crackly processed
beats - foxy digitalis
lovely. Deep, mellow phrases have been captured and turned into hypnotic,
slightly glitchy little masterpieces - smallfish
mellow, early morning sound. - textura
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