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Artist Profile

• Toshihiro Fujita

  Electric Violinist and Mandolinist / Composer / Kit-Drummer / Voice-over Artist / Jacket Photographer / Born in Shizuoka City in October 1962. He studied violin with Yumiko Yaguchi for eight years from the age of six and a half. He was strongly attracted to the music of The Beatles and aspired to become a drummer, so he moved to Tokyo and studied under jazz drummer Motohiko Hino at the age of twenty. After working as his assistant, he then moved to the UK. For over a decade, he worked on numerous sessions and recordings with musicians of various styles, while also working energetically as an actor and voice-over artist credited as TOSHI FUJITA for TV, radio, films and various media. Subsequently, he lived in Manhattan, New York, to study film scoring and organized experimental collaborations with jazz musicians, stage actors, and dancers. After returning to Japan, he worked hard to relearn violin playing while working on video production, music production, and performance activities, and began his music production and performance activities in 2023 with this as the axis. The motif of his music production is that the entire song results in a film-like arbitrary intention, and that information is developed from a momentary capture. Since there is a strong element of improvisation, he considers his musical position to be that of a composer. The recording format assumes a live performance, so for most tracks, the full sound is produced in a single take without any subsequent overdubbing. He places great importance on the inspiration of the moment; he does not use a looper, but instead plays the repeating sections live from start to finish without quantization. There are many musicians, poets, movies, and artists that he likes, but the ones that have had a major influence on his compositional ideas are Toru Takemitsu, Pink Floyd, Isao Tomita, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Yuzo Kawashima, and Hiroshi Teshigahara. Influenced playing style and approach are KinshiTsuruta and Jeff Beck.His idol is Jaco Pastorius. Strongly believing that the process of creating music is very similar to cooking itself, so that empathize with Yoshiharu Doi's cooking methods and motto.

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