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Fuubutsushi - Shiki

There haven't been many silver linings to this pandemic — but here's one! Fuubutsushi is a socially distanced supergroup that came together during lockdown: Matthew Sage, Chaz Prymek, Patrick Shiroishi, and Chris Jusell. All great musicians in their own right, but maybe even better together. Shiki is a four-album collection that takes us through the four seasons via ECM-leaning jazz, gently glitchy indie pop, soothing ambient soundscapes, neo-classical forest baths, and other rewarding zones. The overall vibe is becalmed, but there's a bit of an edge, thanks to taped conversations with Japanese Americans who were wrongly imprisoned during World War II that waft in and out of the mix. In other words, the dreamy qualities of Fuubutsushi's music are offset by some very harsh realities.

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M Sage - Window Unit + Three Flat (from Catch a Blessing, Geographic North 2019)

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Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, & Patrick Shiroishi - Natsukashii (懐かしい)

Cached Media

2021

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Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, & Patrick Shiroishi - Fuubutsushi (風物詩)

Cached Media

2020

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Fuubutsushi's new album Meridians was recorded by distance and reflects the disparity in time zones, with the four sides of the record given the labels ‘Pacific’, ‘Mountain’, ‘Central’ and Eastern’ which broadly approximate their moods and themes. The close-miked nature of their missives gives Meridians both an intimacy and the sort of separation between instruments which evokes that iconic ECM sound, while their decision to self-produce and publish exclusively via Sage’s own Cached.Media imprint, which pulled itself off Bandcamp around the turn of the year, emphasises both a punkish do-it-yourself ethos and what they characterise as a ‘farm-to-table, grassroots approach’.

https://culturedarm.com/fuubutsushi-meridians/