Bird Ambience LP

Masayoshi Fujita built his name on vibraphone, so Bird Ambience's quiet swap to marimba counts as a plot twist for a composer this exacting. The Japanese percussionist layers it with glitchy, skeletal jazz drum programming, choral samples, and synthesizers for Berlin's Erased Tapes, chasing what he's called the feeling of grabbing a dream before it dissolves. The result refuses to pick a lane between chamber writing and ambient electronics, which is exactly the point.