Rikuto Fujimoto - Distant Landscapes (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Distant Landscapes is the debut album by Rikuto Fujimoto, a suite of sometimes short pieces, based around the concept of memory. During the recording the compositions themselves were played from recall, since Rikuto purposely did not write any scores. It was a visit to his grandparents’ birthplace that sparked the project. Surprised to find that he was filled with feelings of nostalgia for somewhere that he’d never been before, he began to wonder about memories, mental landscapes, that we may have somehow inherited, that lie dormant, deep in the mind. How our family, surroundings, nature and nurture, and also our ancestors, help shape personal identity.

The carefully crafted, accomplished compositions are all centred on Rikuto’s solo piano and his unique vocalisations. Angelic and androgynous, these soar somewhere between a choirboy and Vashti Bunyan’s fragile “outsider” folk. Free of language, more concerned with emotions, sensual and abstract, they allow listeners to ascribe each “song” their own meaning. Or simply experience the long-player as a peaceful, calming wash.

TRACKLIST

1. Rikuto Fujimoto - Mebuki (Prelude)
2. Rikuto Fujimoto - Northern Meadow
3. Rikuto Fujimoto - A Table We Used to Gather
4. Rikuto Fujimoto - Seashell
5. Rikuto Fujimoto - Awai (Interlude)
6. Rikuto Fujimoto - Framed Memories
7. Rikuto Fujimoto - Intersection 1
8. Rikuto Fujimoto - A Bearing Tree
9. Rikuto Fujimoto - Afternoon At The Hidden Courtyard
10. Rikuto Fujimoto - Leaving Afar, Into The Blue
11. Rikuto Fujimoto - Forgotten Song
12. Rikuto Fujimoto - Michikake (Circle Sketch)
13. Rikuto Fujimoto - New Dawn



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