Quasi - Mole City - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Quasi - American Gong [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 02/23/2010

Quasi captures sounds that are powerful, unreapeatable, and unmistakably psychedelic. Producer Dave Friedmann (Flaming Lips) made the mixes powerful and unpredictable. He enhanced the swirling, layered, psyche feel. WHEN THE GOING GETS DARK proves that all the blood, sweat and tears were worthwhile.

Percussionist Haruka Fuji has been a longtime collaborator with Tan Dun as soloist in his Water and Paper Percussion Concerto, a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble since 2010, and a founding member of NY-based new music groups Flexible Music and Line C3. She releases her debut solo recording, Ingredients, including several works written for her, by three composers from her native Japan, Joji Yuasa, Maki Ishii and Akemi Naito, and three from her adopted home in the U.S., Ryan Streber, Caroline Mallonee and Carl Schimmel. The works showcase Fujii's virtuoso technique and sensitivity to timbre, and feature pianist Eric Huebner (NY Philharmonic, Flexible Music), as well as Fujii's mother and sister, Mutsuko and Rika, that together form the well regarded Fujii Marimba Trio.