After releasing an album a month in 2018, composer Satoko Fuji hits the road with her new quartet Kira Kira.
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“Sixty is a very important age mark in Japanese culture, so I wanted to do something that reflected that which wasn’t just a big party or something,” said Fujii. “I was thinking about how many CDs I had scheduled for release in that year, which was about six or seven. These were set with dates already, so I figured “why not make it 12?””
One of the banner-year recordings was Bright Force, a session with her collaborative quartet Kira Kira. Fujii brings the band to North America for a tour this month which stops in Vancouver in early May. The touring band includes Fuji and her frequent collaborator and husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, joined by keyboardist Al Martin on Rhodes piano and a cast of rotating drummers.
“Natsuki and I joined up with Alister and drummer Tony Buck who is a member of The Necks and it went really well,” she said. “But the next time we had the chance to come together in Japan, Tony couldn’t make it, so we asked Ittetsu Takemura to join. We made our CD out of that show and felt that it worked so well that we could tour the project with different drummers in each place.”This is a group whose musical foundation is based entirely on feeling the moment and going for it.
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