Satoko Fujii Ma-Do

Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Desert Ship

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 22, 2010

Satoko Fujii Ma-DoDesert ShipNot Two Records2010 Pianist Satoko Fujii's music on Desert Ship, for the quartet Ma-Do, sits in a phantasmagorical realm that is located artistically somewhere between composer Gustav Holst's Planets and film director Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The sojourn begins in a down to earth manner, with a distant sounding melody that invites, first bass and drums, and then the airy trumpet of Fujii's husband, Natsuki Tamura, to ...