{"product_id":"masayoshi-fujita-forest-of-tranquility-lp-cd","title":"Masayoshi Fujita - Forest Of Tranquility - LP\/CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eON LTD TRANSLUCENT VINYL IN DIE-CUT SLEEVE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita was invited to create the soundtrack for Expo 2025’s vast living nature installation, Forest of Tranquility, he immediately envisioned a relaxing public space in which visitors could tune out the noise and restore their energies. Inside this green open-air sanctuary – visited by millions of people during the landmark Osaka event, which ran for six months – stood a central pond and 1,500 real trees, all rescued and repurposed from Expo’s former ‘70 site and other parks in Osaka. It’s from this honourable commission that Fujita’s new album for Erased Tapes, Forest of Tranquility, grew. Like the Japanese kankyō ongaku (environmental music) pioneers Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada and Haruomi Hosono before him, Fujita makes gentle, mind-massaging music intended to blend harmoniously with its environment Fujita set about deepening the listener's connection to the complementary ebbs and flows of the natural world using dynamic shifts and gentle arcs to shift the mood. The result was a living tapestry that mirrored the surrounding forest, with nonlinear patterns and textural twists and turns — creating a portal into the unexpected. For Expo ‘25 visitors, this synchronicity – the forest setting intertwined with its associated sounds – would have bettered their experience of being outdoors; for at-home listeners, this synergy now takes the form of a serene transportive pod, capable of taking you anywhere you wish. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the follow-up to 2024’s Migratory LP, the organic resonance of Fujita’s acoustic instruments – marimba, vibraphone, and percussion, with Armenian duduk from Hayk Karoyi and Japanese shō from Mattias Hållsten – acts as a showcase of nature’s design. Field recordings of birds and frogs make a hidden home among its branches and broad leaves, and bring the album’s biomimicry and ecological quality into even sharper focus. As do the atmospheric drones and burrs of white noise that evoke the wind whipping through the mountains. But, mainly, the objective was to carve out a roomy sound world for reflective thought. “I wanted to have a lot of space in between the sounds,” says Fujita. Having lived in Berlin for 13 years, Fujita moved to rural Japan in 2020, aiming to make music in nature. Now he is as close as one can be, living with his family high up in a mountain village along the coast of Kami-cho, Hyōgo, three hours west of Kyoto – surrounded by water and the occasional bear – and working out of a former kindergarten. For that reason, coursing through the leafy veins of Forest of Tranquility is the distinct feeling that you, too, might wander off into the wilderness someday and never return to the city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrYBKqIPNf4?si=DUu4ceQ8nj7HzcAW\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eTracklist\u003c\/span\u003e: 1. Portal to the Universe 2. Departure 3. Forest of Tranquility 4. Light, Wind and Water 5. Komorebi Dance 6. All Creatures Bow to Evening 7. Time to Go\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Sound","offers":[{"title":"CLEAR VINYL","offer_id":67599326806332,"sku":"ERATP187LP","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":67599326839100,"sku":"ERATP187CD","price":14.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/5941\/files\/masayoshi-fujita-forest-of-tranquility.jpg?v=1790690631","url":"https:\/\/www.arcade-sound.com\/fr\/products\/masayoshi-fujita-forest-of-tranquility-lp-cd","provider":"Arcade Sound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}