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A Japanese-born innovative composer, known as a pioneering artist of synthesizer symphony, AQi Fzono has released a new album "Chronicle" almost six years after his last "synthesizer symphony" series album. Fzono plays various vintage keyboards and synthesizers including Moog, Mellotron and Fairlight on this album as always, and also it features orchestral ensembles, big choir, and Japanese and Chinese ethnic instruments all conducted by Fzono himself. A voluminous work consisted from eight movements that commemorate the new millennium and express the eternal time of the world history from the Creation to the present day. Soloists from US and Japan include: tribal percussionist Ashra, Japanese avant-garde guitar performer Madame Juju, and Soprano diva Janis Bradley. On this album he does not use as much electronic sounds as his other albums release in the 1990s, but he rather employs more natural and dynamic sounds. CHRONICLE contains a variety of sonic dramas that take listeners into a virtual world of time and space travel. Fzono skillfully blends classical, tribal, electronic and post-modern music. He also adventurously combines various elements of these music styles with surreal ambient soundscapes. The classical technique is reflected in his orchestration, but at the same time he successfully weaves powerful new age symphonic textures into his music. It is no wonder why Fzono's fantastic and vast-scaled sounds of synthesizer symphony with magical orchestration stands out among all others. If you love artists such as Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Wendy Carlos or perhaps Jean-Michel Jarre or Enigma, this is an album for your more refined tastes.