Fumio Yasuda - Fractured Silence '2014

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Japanese pianist Fumio Yasuda performs his original composition Fractured
Silence, a sequence of 21 solo piano pieces he started writing in 1973. In
addition to grand piano, Yasudo plays a prepared piano to reach and experience
the outmost limit of unexpected spheres of sounds. The distortion causes an
assault against the natural tones of a piano. By placing objects like nails and
screws on the strings, each attack generates a different noise and
reverberation. The harmonic structure of the overtones rings out differently,
recalling similar sounds like a memory, a point of reference, an indispensable
experience.

I strongly feel that this work is part of my personal history and identity,
which I have created neither intentionally nor unintentionally. These pieces
were composed, in retrospect, to the memory of my listening habits. My work
reflects classical, contemporary as well as traditional music, harmonic and
melodic structures of different Western music and improvisation. I tried to
expose memories of these repeating resonances, which I experienced over the
years.
- Fumio Yasuda

Tracklist:
01. Fumio Yasuda - Elegy in E Minor
02. Fumio Yasuda - Thoughts Arise and Vanish
03. Fumio Yasuda - Lost
04. Fumio Yasuda - Blue Gallery
05. Fumio Yasuda - Tenki
06. Fumio Yasuda - Forgotten Waltz
07. Fumio Yasuda - Taffeta
08. Fumio Yasuda - Molle
09. Fumio Yasuda - Rain
10. Fumio Yasuda - Beata
11. Fumio Yasuda - Solitude
12. Fumio Yasuda - Capri
13. Fumio Yasuda - Sky Dark Green
14. Fumio Yasuda - Song of Nenna
15. Fumio Yasuda - Autumn Melody
16. Fumio Yasuda - Melancholic Waltz
17. Fumio Yasuda - Winter Silence
18. Fumio Yasuda - Capricornus
19. Fumio Yasuda - Wandering Shadows
20. Fumio Yasuda - By the Sea
21. Fumio Yasuda - Almost Silence

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