{"id":13762,"date":"2018-06-04T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2019-06-16T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:02:29","slug":"masayoshi-fujita-announces-new-album-book-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13762","title":{"rendered":"Masayoshi Fujita announces new album Book Of Life<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Berlin based Japanese vibraphonist and composer Masayoshi Fujita<\/a> has a new album on the way, following 2015’s Apologues<\/em> and 2016’s Schaum<\/em>, his collaborative album with experimental producer Jan Jelinek. Entitled Book Of Life<\/em>, the album sees Fujita, who plays and uses the vibraphone in an unusual way, placing the instrument again front and centre. He explains:<\/p>\n

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“I think the vibraphone is capable of more interesting and beautiful sounds that haven’t been heard before. It’s quite a new instrument but it’s often played in a similar way. I feel that there is a lot more to explore with this exciting instrument.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As with Apologues<\/em>, where Fujita used for the first time other instruments like the violin, cello, flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion, piano and percussion, Book Of Life<\/em> is also enriched with strings, flute and a choir.<\/p>\n

Ahead of its release on July 27th through Erased Tapes<\/a>, we can already hear the bewitching first single ‘It’s Magical’. Other than the vibraphone, it features two cellos and a flute “like a man who’s put artificial wings on his arms to attempt to fly like a bird, before an airplane was invented,” as Fujita said.<\/p>\n