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Cold Light in Warm Blue

by Fumi Endo

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Track 1 13:59
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Track 2 10:24
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Track 3 07:21
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Track 4 15:57
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Track 5 06:01

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Tokyo-based pianist Fumi Endo has been performing since 2017, playing mainly jazz and improvised music. Her distinctive, minimalistic performances have garnered a great deal of attention. Endo has performed frequently at Ftarri since September 2020.

While she participated in two 2022 Ftarri CD releases—Takumi Ikeda’s "Musical Procedure" (Ftarri Classical, ftarricl-663), and the eponymous "Masahide Tokunaga" (Hitorri, hitorri-970)—Endo had no previous releases on Ftarri under her own name. (Her duo CD with suzueri, "toy-piano sokubaikai," was released on the Japanese label zappak in 2022.) In the summer of 2022, however, Endo recorded two improvised solo performances without audience in the concert space at Ftarri, Tokyo, playing Ftarri’s upright piano. Five pieces from these recordings were selected for release on this CD.

A simple recording using an old 1960s upright piano in a non-soundproofed room certainly isn’t an ideal situation, and the conditions did affect the recording quality in some ways. But Endo’s playing makes up for these shortcomings, and those who listen with open ears will surely be moved by the excellence and profound originality of her performances. A must-hear album!

東京在住の遠藤ふみは、2017年からジャズや即興音楽を中心に音楽活動をおこない、そのミニマリスティックで個性的な演奏が大きな話題を呼ぶ注目のピアニスト。2020年9月以降 Ftarri にも頻繁に出演している。

Ftarri レーベルには、どちらも2022年リリースの池田拓実CD『Musical Procedure』(Ftarri Classical, ftarricl-663) と徳永将豪CD『Masahide Tokunaga』(Hitorri, hitorri-970) の2枚に参加しているが、遠藤名義のCDリリースはなかった (2022年には日本の zappak レーベルから、すずえりとのデュオCD『トイピアノ即売会』をリリースしている)。その一方で、2022年夏に東京 Ftarri のスペースにあるアップライト・ピアノを使い、遠藤はソロによる即興演奏を2度にわたり無観客で録音。今回、その録音から5曲を選んでCDを発売することとなった。

1960年代の古いアップライト・ピアノを使用し、しかも防音設備のない部屋での簡易レコーディングという、良いとはとても言えない環境が録音のクオリティに影響を与えてしまっている部分は確かにある。しかし、遠藤の演奏には、その欠点すらも帳消しにし、そんなことはお構いなしに聴く者に感銘を与えずにはおかない凄みと強烈な個性がある。必聴です!!

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released February 12, 2023

All improvisation by Fumi Endo

Fumi Endo: upright piano

Recorded without audience at Ftarri, Tokyo, July 18, 2022 (2-4) and August 22, 2022 (1, 5)
Recorded and mastered by Ftarri
Artwork by sasakure.
Design by Cathy Fishman

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