The man behind Aus is the Japanese musician Yasuhiko Fukuzono, whose compositions on the fringes of ambient, electronica and pop are rapidly gaining recognition via imprints such as Someone Good. Acquiring his inspirations from all over the places - images that his mind captured from films, words that he stumbled upon, pieces of music that drop out from TV and radio, nomadic dreams, long lost memories and indescribable inner feelings. Fukuzono writes music that illustrate the detailed movements of life, and quite often, he illustrates these, with his subtle music skills, in films too.
The Album Light in August, Later
is featured in Update #002:
Pop Ambient 2010, Moebius, Mandarinenträume
The current re-issues of Cluster's seminal krautrock recordings have suddenly sparked new interest in the genre: A film about Hans-Joachim Roedelius is in the making, Permanent Vacation unearth East German synth tunes, and a variety of artists cross over folk, more...
