Composer-pianist Satoko Fujii Imagines a Better World on After the Storm, Her New Recording with Orchestra Kobe. The second of her five new 2026 orchestral discs will be released August 7, 2026, via Libra Records.
“The music rattles the bones as often as it soothes the soul and no composer is more masterful at balancing and grounding those extremes…continually absorbing and unlike anything else.” – Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
“One might liken Fujii to Charles Mingus, Graham Collier, Carla Bley or Sun Ra for adventurousness and intensity, but her music is distinctive, standing alongside those other explorers, not in their shadow.” – Barry Witherden, Jazz Journal (UK).