Masahiro Sugaya

Following the reissue of The Pocket of Fever, Ambient Sans presents the second chapter in Masahiro Sugaya’s visionary work for the avant-garde performing arts company Pappa TARAHUMARA.

"Founded by Hiroshi Koike in 1982, Pappa TARAHUMARA blended dance, theater, music, and visual art into abstract, immersive stage worlds. Sugaya’s compositions became the sonic counterpart to this radical aesthetic—minimal yet deeply evocative, combining electronics, ambient textures, and delicate melodic gestures into a sound language both intimate and expansive.

Music From Alejo marks his first original stage score for the company: a work where repetition and silence intertwine with shimmering synthesizers and dreamlike motifs, conjuring atmospheres that feel suspended between reality and reverie. More structured than The Pocket of Fever yet equally poetic, the album reveals Sugaya’s gift for translating movement into sound, balancing modern composition with subtle echoes of Japanese tradition.

𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞 𝙔𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙖, 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙞 𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙙𝙖, 𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙀𝙣𝙤—𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤’𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟬𝙨."