Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Fuubutsushi - Shiki (cachedmedia)

A compendium physical/digital release that collects all four seasons/four albums by Fuubutsushi recorded 2020-2021. The physical edition includes 4 CDs in a fold-out digipak housed with a full color booklet in an O-card sleeve.

Combining many genres and elements, Fuubutsushi's catalog is one marked by playful and trusting exploration between four musicians; though each loosely assumes a role -- Jusell on violin, Prymek on guitars, Sage on percussion/keys, Shiroishi on woodwinds -- the group has, in their hallmark year of long-distance collaboration, established a free-form vocabulary. Borrowing idioms from ECM, cool jazz, ambient music, minimalism, city pop, post rock, folk, and Americana, this music thoughtfully roams across landscapes like a wandering cloud. At times it falls into valleys, at times in soars far above the surface, it falls and collects in puddles and lakes, it thaws and runs like rivers, it collects in snow banks and freezes solid.

After receiving critical acclaim and high demand, all four albums are now available in this handsome edition and download.

1. Bolted Orange 03:15
2. Sugar Maple Turn 03:49
3. Along the Causeway 03:08
4. Cicada Season 03:12
5. Watch the Time 03:07
6. Freedom and Crap 04:28
7. Fuubutsushi 05:37
8. Hayao's Garden 03:10
9. Some Surrender 05:06
10. Chorus Wheel 03:12
11. Lavender 06:09
12. Fresh Salt 03:04
13. Tsundora 02:16
14. White Out 02:46
15. Fuyo No Tiayō 04:35
16. Eulalia Floe 03:48
17. Shepherd's Stroll 04:15
18. Piñon 02:58
19. Hesitant Optimism 07:18
20. Good Morning Patrick 04:15
21.Mistral 04:16
22. Yamawarau 05:44
23. Floorless Room 04:13
24. Cracked Lake 03:37
25. Kodama 06:43
26. Flower Clock 04:01
27. Wisconsin Basin 05:26
28. Chopin Park Kite 11:03
29. Friends with Foxes 03:53
30. Ojai Mirage 04:47
31. So Long, Champ 02:48
32. Jiji's Lament 03:09
33. Suzushii Kaze 04:21
34. Hotaru 04:20
35. Heat Waif 03:57
36. I Hold Dearly (for Miles) 05:17