"The Minstrel of Diode", a Japanese-born composer, synthesist and electronic music artist, AQi Fzono is best known for his pioneering synthesizer music album series. Epic, ambient, surreal and dramatic - his music has created it's own genre. His suite-style voluminous works that contain fantastic and vast-scaled sounds has been categorized as "Synthesizer music", "Space music", "Neo-classical", "Symphonic Techno","Symphobient" (The word "Symphobient" comes from a fusion of "symphonic" and "ambient"), "Progressive Electronica" and "New Age".
Fzono's first official solo album "Phosphorescence", a pioneering acid / electronica album influenced by the second summer of love and neo-hippie movement at that time, was released in 1988. With his second album Echoes (1990), a pioneering Symphobient album featuring some vintage instruments such as EMS and Moog modular synthesizer, Mellotron and theremin, he established his composition style. In the 1990s he released other "Symphobient" series albums "Ruins" (1993) and "Cathedral" (1995). In 1995 he released his 5th solo album "Cosmology".
In 2001, Fzono and his artistic collaboration partner Asyrah established their own record label Lavalamp Records in Washington, USA. In 2003, Fzono released a long-awaited new album entitled "Chronicle", classical-influenced suite featuring soprano, many choir and orchestra sounds, almost six years after his last album release.
