Fujii Kaze hits the studio with producers of Charli XCX, Lady Gaga and Adele

So, Fujii Kaze was in LA recently, as many artists are and or / were, because:

a) It’s LA. It’s where they all be.
b) Some music shit happened in California called Coachella.

Kaze didn’t perform at Coachella. Unfortunately. (How great would he had been during that 88rising set?) And we also coulda gotten that Kaze and Hikaru link up that several of y’all have been wanting. But Kaze was instead hitting studios. And probably getting high. Because Kaze looks the type to be zooting in LA; making up for not being able to do it in Japan, where weed is illegal and he would lose his entire career if caught with it. But mainly, he was hitting studios. For what? Your guess is as good as mine.

L to R: A.G. Cook, BloodPop & Fujii Kaze | Instagram @fujiikaze

In the sessions of which Kaze shared on his Insta, we see A.G. Cook of PC Music fame, who has become more notable via his work with Charli XCX. BloodPop, the man that fucked up Lady Gaga’s Chromatica. Sir Nolan, the producer of songs such as Nick Jonas’ “Jealous” and a bunch of other white people in pop (Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato). And Tobias Jesso Jr., who produced and played piano on Adele’s “When We Were Young” and “To Be Loved”.

L to R: Tobias Jesso Jr., Kaze Fujii & Sir Nolan | Instagram @fujiikaze

The prospect of a Fujii Kaze album featuring these producers certainly is...interesting. But the coolest thing about these photos isn’t what they could mean musically, but how Kaze is just being his oddball self. He’s not trying to be cool. There’s no persona that he’s putting up. He’s just doing what Kaze always be doing. And this for me is the most reassuring thing, because it will colour the music (if there even is music for us to hear) in the best way. And it’s also a good lesson for all of us to just fuck pretence and to be our truest selves, no matter whose company we’re in.

Kaze had only just put out his second studio album on March 23rd, and as I post this it is April 24th. But we know how Japanese music releases go. We often end up with a single mere months after an album has just released. So maybe there is a single on the way. Or perhaps in the case of A.G. Cook and BloodPop, both of whom have an awareness of artists within J-pop and whose own sounds have been partly influenced by J-pop, Kaze could appear on releases of theirs. I cannot imagine how Kaze would sound on a PC Music joint. I truly cannot. But artists and musicians work on shit all of the time, just for the sake of it, or to feel things out for potential projects in the future. So it’s plausible that we won’t hear ANY of what came of these sessions. Kaze may not have even finished a song. 

But do any of us Wind Wakers need a reason to see more of Kaze doing things?

Exactly.

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