Weekly mp3 #83: Yuichiro Fujimoto - Open Window (For Piano)

You can fetch this tune from Mr Fujimoto's own site, where it says "Listen" next to the particular tune.

Contains what's written on the tin. Starts with birds chirping and a completely unadorned piano piece begins. The low, mellow tones remind me of the piano versions of the theme from The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, although the melody shifts away in different directions pretty quickly. Sounds like some kids start playing outside. Maybe it's not really one recording by an open window, but, whatever, it sounds that way.

I also thoroughly recommend 'Old Bird Tape' on the same page. I just thought it was a bit short and sketchy to make it the main subject for this post.

You'll be shocked to discover that Yuichiro Fujimoto is a Japanese man. He's released albums of this kind of delicate, deliberately homemade-sounding acoustic music on Norwegian, American and Japanese record labels. Seems like his website's quite out of date, which is a pity. I guess he would be in his mid-20s now, so maybe he's been confronted with the excitement of working life in Japan. Maybe.