
Release Date: 2025/08/08
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The window in this small 8.1 square meter room must be connected to overlapping fantasies and someone in the vast universe through the waves of sound. This is Fujita Kenji's sixth album, which produces cassette tape pop with a mysterious nostalgia. "Return to zero tales" is the second of the two-disc series "8.1m2space.
Music: Kenji Fujita mastering: Hiromitsu Shoji Illustration: Masahide Koura
Kenji Fujita is a Japanese musician weaving blurred suburban folklore from a 4.5-tatami room in Hachioji, Tokyo. Under the banner of "suburban bedroom folklore," he pursues an avant-pop style where acid folk and electronics melt together. Resuming his journey in 2025 after a 16-year silence, Fujita uses cassette tape modulation and effects-driven sonic manipulation to layer temporalities-as if tuning into another space from the starting point of his immediate room. Moving beyond simple nostalgia, his sound evokes a hauntological space shimmering with the remnants of daily life and the undercurrents of the mundane. Through a maze-like world of layered recordings, he has established a truly singular presence.
Kogai Onkei