This Goes…

by Fumihito Sugawara

This Goes…

by Fumihito Sugawara

RELEASE DATE: 2010-03-15

RELEASE DATE: 2010-03-15

LABEL: FEATURED ALBUM, Ropeadope Digital

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“This Goes…” is a masterpiece of a debut album. Fumi-hito brings combines the wonders of music into an album that speaks to the hearts of the listeners. The album must be absorbed as a whole taking it in pieces would be like driving with out a steering wheel.

From start to finish Fumi-hito knows where he wants the journey of your ears to begin and where he wants you to say “wow” by the end of the album. Forget the mentally that single songs are the way of the future, Fumi-hito proves that wrong with “This Goes…” and you better be a believer.

Track Listing

  • 1.Into/My name is
  • 2.Yellow Exploitation
  • 3.Mr.Lee Said
  • 4.The Truth In The Deep Blue
  • 5.Make Up Your Mind
  • 6.Smooth She
  • 7.You & Me
  • 8.Scene #41978
  • 9.Tomorrow Bring Another Wind
  • 11.This Goes...
  • 12.The Vibe
  • 13.Todo Es Arte
  • 14.Tomorrow's Old Funk ( Bonus Track )

About the Artist

Some artists exceed the confining industry-boxes of genres, and blaze roads seldom traveled by their contemporaries. In a land of box-dwellers and one-trick ponies comes Fumihito Sugawara, or simply Fumi-hito for short. The Hiroshima-raised Fumi-hito narrates the listener’s musical adventure, not with words, but through the use of sound. His sounds are his symbols as he states, “I feel a visual narrative through notes.” And it’s only fitting for a cat whose name literally translates to “man of literature!”.

Currently working up his chops in the Austin-based band Afrofreque; Fumi-hito is now stretching out in his lone efforts into spaces of limitless melodic and rhythmic structures, setting an atmosphere of blissful proportions with a sophisticated style that’s cinematic in structure, but funky in sound. With Fumi-hito, there’s never a dull moment! His style can be seen as the outcome of a hypothetical meeting between the likes of Lalo Schifrin, DJ Logic, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. And this multi-instrumentalist offers everything that one would expect of a virtuous musical and philosophical visionary heavily influenced by hip-hop, jazz, brazilia, soul, and Japanese-folk music. Think of it as experimental genre-blending mood-music which consistently relays some story and/ or message within its being. Needless to say, the world is in for years, decades, and maybe even centuries of mind-blowing and soul-thumping grooves! This artist has chosen to take “the road less traveled” — to create sonic timelessness in the 21st century. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, welcome the magnificent Fumi-hito!