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| AQi Fzono Discography |
| AQi Fzono New Album "Chronicle" |
| >>>>>AQi Fzono Basic Info |
| Instruments : |
| Synthesizers, Keyboards |
| Solo Album : |
"Phosphorescent"
(1988) |
| Band and Units : |
| Psychedelic Plants Research Laboratory (1987-) |
| Midara Gokoro (1986-) |
| Far East Acid House Quartet (1988-97) |
| Psychedelic Plants Research Laboratory (1987-) |
| Related Genre : |
| Techno, Trance, House, Ambient, Progressive rock |
| Similar Artists : |
| Mike Oldfield, Wendey Carlos, Vangelis, Klaus Schluze, Orbital, Future Sound of London, Pete Namlook |
| Influenced : |
| Wagner, J. S. Bach, Wendy Carlos, Karlheinz Stockhausen, ELO, Pink Flyod |
| Collaborated Artists : |
| Hypnotic Twin, Madame Juju, Damo Suzuki |
| Birth date : |
| 20th November |
| Web Dictionaries > |
| > "AQi Fzono" page at Wikipedia (English) |
| > "AQi Fzono" page at Wikipedia (Japanese) |
| Online Stores > Amazon.com > |
| "Amazon.com : A Glance : AQi Fzono" page |
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| Related Sites > |
| FZONO.COM - AQi Fzono Official Site |
| AQi Fzono: Visionary Music Encyclopedia - Databese / Official Fan Site in Japan |
| Rave Scripture - Far East Acid House Quartet > AQi Fzono + Space DJ Ryo iemail Dialogs, Q&Aj |
| "Illegal Rave" - Far East Acid House Quartet : Fan Site / Web Database (Japan) |
| Midara-gokoro Official Site |
| AQi Fzono | ||
"The Minstrel of Diode", a Japanese-born composer and synthesist, AQi Fzono is best known for his pioneering synthesizer music album series called "Synthesizer Symphony". Epic, ambient, surreal and dramatic - his music has created it's own genre. His suite-style voluminous works that contain fantastic and vast-scaled sounds has been categorized as "Synthesizer music", "Space music", "Neo-classical", "Symphonic Techno","Symphobient" (The word "Symphobient" comes from a fusion of "symphonic" and "ambient") and "Progressive Electronica". |
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| Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1969.
AQi started learning piano when he was five years old and composing
his own music at six. In 1987 - 1991, Fzono stayed in Europe (mainly in West Germany), learned Philosophy, Aesthetics and History of Art in Cologne, Munich and Berlin. Fzono studied music under Toshiro Mayuzumi, Ikuma Dan and Toru Takemitsu in Japan, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Germany. In 1987 - 89, he traveled to the other parts of the world alone for ethnic music and ancient music research. During his stay in New York in the '89, he was involved in a multi-media project called the "Psychedelic Plants Research Laboratory". Their audio-visual live performances called Multimedia Visionquest, featuring electronic and ethnic music, video drugs and trance dance. And they released an album "Mars Botanical Garden" in 1989 under the name of "Psychedelic Plants Research Laboratory"(later, known as "Aurora Heads" mainly in the US). Fzono also played keyboards and theremin in the Japanese underground progressive house music project "Far East Acid House Quartet", a neo-hippie cult band in 1988 - 1998. |
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| Fzono's first official solo album "Phosphorescent", a pioneering acid album influenced by the second summer of love and neo-hippie movement at that time, was released in 1988. With his second album Echoes (1990), a pioneering Symphobient album featuring some vintage instruments such as EMS and Moog modular synthesizer, Mellotron and theremin, he established his composition style. In the 1990s he released other "Symphobient" series albums "Ruins" (1993) and "Cathedral" (1995). In 1998 he released his 5th solo album "Cosmology". In 2001, Fzono and his artistic collaboration partner Hypnotic Twin (David Laurenz and DJ Third Eye) established their own record label Lavalamp Records in NY, USA (Currently in Canada / Japan). In 2003, Fzono released a long-awaited new album entitled "Chronicle", classical-influenced suite featuring soprano, many choir and orchestra sounds, almost six years after his last album release. |
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| In March 2006, Fzono's most popular album in 1990s "Cosmology" is digitally remastered and to be reissued from Lavalamp Records.@ | ||
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| In 2007, Celebrating 20 years of making music, AQi Fzono with the new generation Japanese girls DJ duo Trance-Rave Daughters bring fresh challenges to the Club and Trance music scenes - "Trance-Rave Cosmology"(by AQi Fzono with Trance-Rave Daughters) was released. ncluding the selected and signature tunes from AQi Fzono's previous solo albums, the legendary Japanese Rave Band "Far East Acid House Quartet", and his Internationl Trance Unit "Aurora Heads" [aka. Psychedelic Plants Research Laboratory] , this album showcases AQi Fzono's Club Hits. Space DJ Ryo (ex-Far East Acid House Quartet), Hypnotic Twin and other guest remixers have shaped those 13 tunes into the brand new club remixes. Also included is an original new tune "Japanese Zippie Youth". This album which covers from Trance and Techno to House and Hardcore Breakbeats, can also be enjoyed as a prophet of Trance music AQi Fzono's brand new hit album. |
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