fuji kureta

Les stambouliotes, qui sont sans doute moins étroits d’esprits que nous, ont le bon goût de parler les langues étrangères (ça change des français ^^), et d’écrire à votre serviteur dans son propre idiome, attention fort délicate.

Il y a moins de 3 semaines on  évoquait sur l’antenne du Mouv’ les villes électro du monde entier, citant au passage la belle gardienne du Bosphore. Voilà Fuji Kureta, duo francophile (jusque dans le chant de Toutes les femmes), qui vient nous proposer l’un des nombreuses facettes électroniques d’Istanbul.

Les sautillements enfantins de Bonjour sont d’une fraîcheur délicieuse. Mais on revient plus volontiers vers la belle contrebasse de Lucid dreams, qui éloigne progressivement le titre de l’influence radiohead qui le baigne. Leur musique est un malin mélange d’influences électro (ou Portishead?) et d’acoustique (la clarinette sur Accident ci-dessous, le piano…).

Leur premier disque, 6 titres pleins de promesses, s’intitulé Sweets, et c’est exactement ce qu’il évoque, un soleil de série télé, une douce chaleur, et un sac de friandises posé sur le banc à nos côtés. Mais on peut entendre d’autres titres inédits sur myspace.
A bientôt Deniz Öztürk et Sahin Kureta, on espère que vous maintiendrez le niveau ! Un nouveau 8 titres annoncé pour mars apportera bien vite la réponse. - arbobo

Le duo poptrica Fuji Kureta est de retour sur le netlabel 23 seconds avec un très bel album très beau très doux, très mélodieux et où le charme opère dès les premières secondes. La voix très agréable de Deniz Öztürk mêlée aux sonorités électroniques lumineuses de Sahin Kureta donne quelque chose de totalement concluant, un peu dans l’esprit des premiers albums de Bjork. J’aime beaucoup.
[8/10]

Fuji Kureta - Dive

Fuji Kureta - Rope


album : See-Through (zip) juin. 2011
netlabel : 23seconds
site : fujikureta.com
- netlabels revue

Fuji Kureta is an electronica duo from Istanbul, Turkey.
In their new release, See Through, singer Deniz Öztürk and composer Sahin Kureta weave a rich texture of beats and melodies clocking in at 31 minutes.
I’m really enjoying this. It’s so different than everything else I’ve been listening to – a palette cleanser, if you will.
- Perfect Porridge

Os Fuji Kureta, formados pela cantora Deniz Öztürk e pelo compositor Sahin Kureta, nasceram em 2008 e são uma inovadora dupla de eletrónica, natural de Istambul, na Turquia. A sonoridade da banda oscila entre melodias suaves, mas bem vincadas e batidas incomuns, regadas com trip hop e jazz. Assim, See-Through, o disco que proponho e disponibilizo hoje, está cheio de detalhes eletrónicos que criam uma atmosfera sonora subtil e sonhadora, acompanhados por vocalizações em francês e inglês, delicadas e a fazer lembrar a Bjork, os Everything But the Girl, vários momentos dos Massive Attack com vozes femininas e os Saint Etienne. Há tiques sonoros repletos de luz, crença e otimismo, digamos assim, ao longo do disco, percetiveis no próprio título de algumas canções; Lux, Credo, Spectra, Diaphanous e a questão em aberto What If, que nos deixa a imaginar uma infinidade de respostas. A minha faixa preferida é Spectra, uma música repleta de charme e sensualidade devido às melodias tocadas pelo teclado e à batida intermitente, que cria um ritmo hipnótico, perfeito para servir de base à letra, sem dúvida um pouco ambígua; Baby, let’s not be afraid now, It is not time to weep, Obscureness is obsolescent now, We should cheer.
Os Fuji Kureta começaram por lançar a sua música através da etiqueta croata Listen Loudest Records, a italiana Bad Panda Records e a eslovaca Gergaz. Este See-Through é o primeiro disco editado pela23 Seconds Netlabel e foi lançado no passado dia 29 de abril.
Se gostares tanto desta sugestão como eu, recomendo uma visita à página e ao Blog da banda.

- man on the moon

Istanbul Electronica/Down-tempo duo, Fuji Kureta, hit us with their electronica track titled “Bonjour”. I could not find much info about this band, but I was able to find this:

Forming date: August 2008
Members: Deniz Öztürk & Sahin Kureta
Forming place: Asude Üsküdar
Forming motivation: High
Forming reason: Music’s ruling the solar system

“Bonjour” is a very minimal beat with this tender, delayed electric piano melody that varies around the same notes. It also has sweet-as-sugar vocals from member Deniz Öztürk which I can only assume is sung in French. It is a very relaxing track indeed…

enjoY! - Boom Boom Chik

“Delicious, passionate, sensual; a perfect recipe for greatness.” “So good I wanted to eat the plate it was served on.”

Fuji Kureta is an electronica duo formed in August 2008 in Istanbul – Turkey. When the singer Deniz Öztürk and the composer Sahin Kureta met, they began to work on electronica sounding songs. The lyrics are in French and in English. Their sound oscillates between soft but strong melodies and very inventive beats. – http://www.last.fm/music/Fuji+Kureta

“Accident has a smooth, and swanky climbing, cool jazz radiance.” “Bonjour is a beautiful lullaby of incredible melodic wonder.” – MK

Check out Hommage and Lucid Dreams.

Songs Courtesy of Fuji Kureta – Sweets EP (GNL)

Fuji Kureta are currently in the studio recording an album. - Magnetisme Kultra

Turkish electronic duo Fuji Kureta’s latest album, See-Through, has been flying under the radar but has a truly innovative sound – reminiscent of Little Dragon and especially Bjork, but worth listening to in and of itself. Though there hasn’t ben any talk on their blog or myspace pages of a US tour, I’d like to see it happen. It’s a testament to their production acumen that they’re able to create such a full sound during a live set with only two people – shame that most of these gigs happen closer to Istanbul than New York City. Here’s two tracks off the LP – the sweetly beautiful “Rope” and the more adventurous, almost schizophrenic track, “Finis-Terre:” - AudioCred

Fuji Kureta might hail from Istanbul, but within 30 seconds of 'Diaphanous' it's pretty clear to see their hearts are firmly in Iceland, specifically when Björk is at home (if she still lives there and not on the moon) - and in the 90's.

It's no bad thing to be linked with such a legendary figure, is it? - The 405

Qui aurait pu prédire que le meilleur album de pop électronique de ce début d’année nous viendrait d’Istanbul et tiendrait sur 8 morceaux pour une demi-heure à peine ?

Certes, il eut fallu pour cela avoir fait connaissance avec le beatmaker Sahin Kureta et la chanteuse Deniz Öztürk via leur EP Sweets offert l’an dernier par l’intermédiaire du netlabel slovaque Gergaz, et quand bien même l’élégance downtempo des programmations du premier à la frontière de l’IDM, du trip-hop et du jazz, alliée à la grâce lounge et légèrement éteinte des mélodies vocales de la seconde en anglais comme en français nous auraient-ils agréablement rappelé les collaborations aériennes entre Alias et Tarsier, rien pour laisser présager de la dimension aventureuse et de la virtuosité révélées par ce See-Through aux lignes épurées et pourtant d’une densité profondément immersive.

Car là où Sweets prenait bien soin de ne pas déborder de son cadre chill-out, ce premier véritable opus accentue d’emblée les contrastes, entre programmations rêveuses et beats oppressants, vocalises innocentes et distorsions inquiétantes, nappes planantes et emballements épiques, abstractions futuristes et gimmicks acid house tout droit repêchés des 90’s. Contraste également entre le groove subtilement arythmique instauré par Sahin et le lyrisme de Deniz dont le chant se fait cette fois nettement plus expressif tout en demeurant à la frontière de l’atonalité sur Finis-terre, chanson francophile que l’on pourrait voir comme un clin d’oeil aux Anglais Saint Etienne si d’autres influences ne s’imposaient ici de façon bien plus évidente. - Indie Rock Mag

stanbul’s electronic duo Fuji Kureta have found their sound on this inventive new record, the eight-song “See-Through”, released via 23-Seconds Netlabel. It’s full of dreamy electronics, subtle atmospherics, and chiffon-soft vocals — sounding at times like Bjork, Everything But the Girl, the softer female-led Massive Attack tracks, or Saint Etienne. Fuji Kureta may even be giving a tip of the cap to the latter, in their song “Finis-terre” (“Finite Ground”), which happens to be the name of a record released in 2002 by Saint Etienne. This is a true duo, the music and vocals work equally to accent each other. There’s a lightness of touch to the record, affirming the naming of songs with titles that suggest airiness and illuminance: “Lux” (Light), “Credo” (Belief), “Spectra”, “Diaphanous” and the unanswered question “What If”, a phrase proposing infinite possibility. This album moves freely in an out of English and French verses, club beats, D&B, schizoid synthesizer, warped distortion, chill-out, glitchitron, electronic crunches, jazz sensibilities and microbeats. All the songs are richly textured, and deliberately creeping. Front-woman Deniz Öztürk sings lines like those in “Rope” with a jazzy assurance, fluctuating beautifully between enunciated highs and bellowing lows: “I pick these flower for you / A bed of marguerites / Like whitening with blaze / … And blossoming / At first, I wish to express / My rules of several / They all just turn out to be a soulful serenade.” Underneath the vocals are blips of keyboard and warped synth strings. It’s a song that evolves, sprawls, and disseminates. It glides with the easy elegance of romance. The best track, “Spectra”, charms with mysterious keyboard melodies, intermittent drum beats, and a hypnotic rhythm that wraps around the haunting vocalization of ambiguous lyricism: “Baby, let’s not be afraid now / It is not time to weep / Obscureness is obsolescent now / We should cheer.” Note: Fuji Kureta is singer Öztürk and composer Sahin Kureta. You can download their album, for free, at the band’s 23-Seconds Netlabel page here. – David D. Robbins Jr. - Their Bated Breath