Sounds from the silence. Once the Occident and Japan were completely foreign to each other, today in the 21st century we approach each other, learn, marvel, discover culture, ways of life, nature, architecture, images, sounds. Fumio Yasuda's music comes from modern Japan, which already opened up to the West in the 18th century. Yasuda studied classical music with a predilection for Karl Amadeus Hartmann, grew up with Western pop and jazz music from childhood and yet is deeply rooted in the Japanese tradition. Time, space and eternity play an important role in his music. In his score there are no pauses, but signs of silence between lyrical, deeply poetic tones that tell of Japanese landscapes, of rain, of forests, of fog, of longing and eternity. Yasuda works in a deep musical familiarity with Joachim Badenhorst, Nobuyoshi Ino and Akimuse.
