Artist Info: Fuqugi

Fuqugi is the solo project of Daiki Sakae, a guitarist who lives out in the wilderness in the far south of Japan - Kagoshima. The fifteen wonderful instrumentals on this debut album were all made exclusively with Sakae's favourite Gibson guitar - an incredible thought given the kind of emotional and dynamic range of the album. Sakae is by no means reliant on the natural timbres of his instrument, instead often channelling the guitar through layers of effects or digital treatments. [read more...]