Yasuhiko Fukuzono

Music Oct 3, 2017

Flau marks its 10th anniversary with a burglary, some toilet paper and a commitment to atmospheric pop

by Nicholas Seagreaves and Anna Yamamoto

Yasuhiko Fukuzono is in good spirits but is tired. He spent a late night with the police after the offices of his record label, Flau, were ransacked. Again. The first burglary happened in July and the second came in mid-September. He lost instruments, computer equipment, ...

Music Jul 17, 2013

Silence is a virtue for Tokyo's Flau

by James Hadfield

Back when he still worked as a speech therapist and audiologist, Yasuhiko Fukuzono used to observe an interesting phenomenon. When deaf patients were fitted out with hearing aids for the first time, they complained that everything was just noise. "Even when they were at ...