Smoking Tigers (Original Score)

by Masayoshi Fujita

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1.	Bathroom – Night Drive 04:05		buy track
2.	Perfect Family – Sadness Rouge 02:02		buy track
3.	Appa 01:04		buy track
4.	Stealing 02:18		buy track
5.	Model Home Magic Moment 02:19	info	buy track
6.	Bike – Joon 02:59		buy track
7.	Masayoshi Fujita, Hiroko Murakami - Mama's Piano 01:47		buy track
8.	Loneliness 02:38		buy track
9.	Family Love – Bitter Sweet Growth 02:33		buy track
10.	New Family Love – End Credit 06:46		buy track

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Japanese vibraphonist, marimba player and composer Masayoshi Fujita has announced the release of his original score for Korean-American filmmaker So Young Shelly Yo’s debut feature, Smoking Tigers. The full score is out on June 19 on Erased Tapes Music.

Coinciding with today’s digital release of the film, Fujita offers a tranquil first glimpse with ‘Model Home Magic Moment’. “It was maybe the most difficult scene to score because of its emotional dynamics, and also the music had to match every little timing of the actors’ movements,” he adds. “I’m quite proud of how it came out.”

The film is set in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, and is a portrait of a lonely Korean-American teen named Hayoung who is taken under the wings of three wealthy students she meets at an elite academic bootcamp. As she falls deeper into their world, Hayoung works harder to hide her insecurities about her problematic family and lower-income background, only to discover the bittersweet pains of adulthood that will forever shape her life.

“Growing up, we are told stories of happiness — suburbia, a nuclear family, a two storied house with white picket fences and a pool — but when our lives don’t reflect these picturesque portals, how does it affect us? How do these ideal forms of family and lifestyle poison our minds and pressure us to make choices we wouldn’t otherwise?”, explains director So Young Shelly Yo

Unconstrained by traditional styles, techniques, or compositional theories, Fujita continuously explores new possibilities for his percussive instruments and crafts sonic landscapes that are unmistakably his own. He prepares the bars with beads, strips of foil, and similar objects, resulting in new sounds, akin to distortions, that help to expand the vibraphone spectrum without eroding the instrument’s intrinsic character or even abandoning it altogether. The score features Hiroko Murakami who performs the piano on ‘Mama’s Piano’.

The original score Smoking Tigers follows the release of his critically acclaimed 2024 album Migratory, which arrived in September and featured a collaboration with Moor Mother, along with sleeve notes by author Pico Iyer. Fujita will be touring Japan in June and July with longtime collaborator Jan Jelinek before he returns to Europe for his much anticipated Migratory Tour in the fall — dates to be announced soon.

Smoking Tigers is available to rent or purchase on digital platforms now.

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released June 19, 2025

All songs composed, recorded, mixed and produced by Masayoshi Fujita except track 07, composed by Masayoshi Fujita and Hiroko Murakami

Mastering engineers: Satoshi Okamoto, Uwe Haas

Executive Producer: Robert Raths
Cover photograph: Heyjin Jun
Cover design: Robert Raths

℗ 2025 Erased Tapes Music
© 2025 Erased Tapes Music under license from Smoking Tigers Film LLC
LC 15952 ERATM010DL
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Masayoshi Fujita Berlin, Germany

The Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player, came to the attention of Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths in 2012. Not only because the vibraphone is an intriguing instrument, but also the way Masayoshi treats his instrument and draws ethereal and layered sounds, is what truly attracted him to Fujita’s work. ... more

discography

Smoking Tigers (Original Score)

Jun 2025
Migratory

Sep 2024
Bird Ambience

May 2021
Book of Life

Jul 2018
Stories

Jul 2018
Needle Six

Apr 2016
Apologues

Sep 2015

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