all mess / ONE DANCE Front Cover

all mess / ONE DANCE

Toshihiro Fujita

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This piece, inspired by Stravinsky and performed as an electric violin sonata, expresses the unique sound of Japanese chindon-ya (traditional street performers).

It deliberately uses Stravinsky's characteristic "irregular rhythms (changing time signatures)" and "dissonances," along with reverberations created by articulations that the maestro disliked, all while expressing the "unique scales blending liveliness and melancholy" of Japanese chindon-ya, which the maestro loved, using only an electric violin...

Combining this avant-garde dub piece with the title "all mess but one dance" creates the following multi-layered nuances:

1. "Order within chaos (mess)": Amidst the complex dissonances (mess) resounding in a Stravinsky style, only the steps (dance) of the chindon-ya run as a single, unified thread.

2. "The clamor of the secular world and the solitary art": The contrast between the chindon-ya (street musicians), who blend into the "mess of the city," and the music (dance) they play, which is an extremely calculated art form.

3. "An homage to a crumbling tradition": Using the modern instrument of the electric violin, the sounds of the disappearing chindon-ya (the mess of the past) are recreated and elevated into a single dance piece.

The ironic intellectual coolness of "it looks chaotic, but it's actually danceable (it works)" is what stands out.

This song progresses gradually into madness, goes through a monologue within a monologue (true feelings and outward appearances) in the middle section, and ends with a shout-like arpeggio. The intention was to leave the listener with the powerful question: "Is it the world (mess) that is crazy, or is it this dancer (dance)?"

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  • 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. 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. 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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