Dai Fujikura
Dai Fujikura's new album "Glorious Clouds" trailer - out this autumn!
Album "Glorious Clouds" will be out from SONY on 22nd September 2021 in Japan,
To the rest of the world, on 22nd October 2021 from Minabel Records.
Dai Fujikura’s latest release on his Minabel label covers a remarkably wide range of instrumentation. Beginning with from solo works for horn, recorder, double bass, contrabass clarinet and viola, there is also a piece for electronics and violin as well as several works for Japanese instruments: koto, shamisen and shakuhachi. The album also includes ensemble pieces, a concerto for shamisen and two orchestral works.
Performers who appear on this album also vary widely. They include the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Dan Lippel, The Shakuhachi 5, Mari Kimura, Jeremias Schwarzer, Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, Nobuaki Fukukawa, Maya Kimura, Ensemble Nomad, Makoto Yoshida, Hideo Kikuchi, Jacob Greenberg, Eriko Daimo, Tony Arnold, Yoji Sato, Heather Roche, Hidejiro Honjoh, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti with three conductors Norio Sato, Yuko Tanaka and Martyn Brabbins. All tracks are edited, mixed and mastered by the composer himself.
photo credit:
Ensemble Nomad, photo by (c)Hikaru.☆ + Maki Takagi
Heather Roche, photo by Inga Geiser + Sam Walton
Jeremias Schwarzer, photo by Felix Broede
Eriko Daimo, photo by Seiji Okumiya
Norio Sato, photo by Akitoshi Higashi
Makoto Yoshida photo by Aurélien Tranchet
Mari Kimura, Librado Romero
Yuko TANAKA, photo by Hideyasu Saji
Tony Arnold, photo by EVREN SELVI