Kakyoku

a review by Stephen Fruitman of
release format Kakyoku by Fumio Yasuda (CD Album)

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Part piano recital, part string symphony, ambient soundscaping and accordian-led tango, the entire sixty-five minutes of 'Kakyoku' by Fumio Yasuda is totally beguiling.

Forty-something composer Yasuda, classically trained and with some jazz improv experience, has created a soundtrack to the floral photography of Nobuyoshi Araki featured in the accompanying booklet, claiming that he wanted to do no more than "create the non-existing flow of time" with his music.

The brilliant Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger provides some lovely cello interludes, and the European Art Orchestra of Stuttgart flesh out the rest of the occasional strings. Some of the lilting string instrumental passages could easily work as the soundtrack to an early-sixties romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn. All in all a beautiful bouquet of sound. Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 00:00, 03 Apr 2001