Fujii Kaze 5 Song Deep Study & First Impression UNCUT

I'm so happy you're featuring Fujii Kaze. He's truly an exceptional singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, and spiritual practitioner. He recently released a very inspiring music video, so please do feature it. Regarding the long-eared dog in Hachiko, while it's not an official explanation, I think it represents Mara, the demon who interfered with Buddha's training (apparently, Mara also means "long-eared one"). I believe this scene, where Hachiko endures 10 years of wind and snow waiting for his master, symbolizes Buddha's unwavering resolve to attain enlightenment, and Jesus' resistance to the temptations of the devil in the wilderness. It's brilliant how he incorporates such a theme into such a fun, danceable song; it takes me to deep thoughts when I hum it.

Highly recommend his Tiny Desk—his energy and musicality shine throughout the entire performance

Hello! I just want to make one correction: The music video for Prema was shot in Thailand, not India.　Thailand is a country of Theravada Buddhism, which places more emphasis on ascetic practice than Mahayana Buddhism, the dominant form in Japan, and is said to be closely linked to animism.　Fujii Kaze is very popular in Thailand, a country with a large devout Buddhist population, and I think he's even more highly regarded there than in Japan.　In fact, even in Japan, artists who express their beliefs and ideologies so openly, like Fujii Kaze, are extremely rare.　I thought this was quite common in the West, but it seems that's not always the case.

Hello! I’m Japanese and I think the dance is similar to Japanese tradition summer festival dance called “Bon Odori”. We usually have local summer festivals in summer. The flute sounds like Japanese flute played in the festival or shrine.

Oh yay! I love Shinunoga E-Wa, Matsuri, and Garden from Fuji Kaze. They’ve been on my daily playlists for quite a while after they were recommended to me, but I’d never gotten around to listening to any of the live performances or digging much deeper into his music. This was so fun Tim! I’m excited to follow along with you and hear more from him. He seems like an incredible musician and performer. I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the scatting and the major/minor switch in Shinunoga E-Wa. I’m obsessed with that section but never understood the theory behind it. Michi Teyu Ko was gorgeous, I had never heard it before.

Oh wow so glad you got into this! And with a 5 song video! I started listening to him couple months ago. It's definitely a great place to be as you said, I listen to him nearly every day. It's a very happy music, feels good. You should definitely make an album deep dive for Help Ever Hurt Never album, the one that Shininuga E-Wa in it. It's a musical and emotional journey! Yasashisa, Kiri Ga Naikara, Tsumi no Kaori, Cho Si Noccha Te, Tokuninai, Kazeyo I mean it's a great album. He also has cover albums Help Ever Hurt Cover and Love All Cover All where he sings mostly pop songs with just piano. Amazing melodies and piano intros. Like check his cover of Back Stabbers. Overprotected, Hot stuff, Close to you.. So ready to get into a Fujii Kaze rabbit hole here!

I said the 432hz thing in the April song post I think, it's just a cool fact I saw somewhere, thanks for explaining it more in-depth, as I did not know much about it lol! I'm not against the idea of checking out his album, but there's waaaay too many good Japanese artist you haven't even checked out... you haven't even get to some of the popular good ones (like Hige dandism, Mrs. green apple, yorushika, zutomayo... and also bunch of Vocaloid stuff)😂