May 2015, Raft was formed between Thai and Japanese. Here is who they are.

Raft – intends to paddle ourselves throughout the world without external power and influences. They were able to perform the 1st live in Bangkok on our own. Although Thailand is our 1st destination, they are planning to move into other countries as well.

They have free music concept named “LIBERAL MUSIC” where the music is not limited by boarder, language and style. A music that attracts anyone, anywhere with combination of rock, pop and all other sorts of music. Their 1st live music consisted of Thai, English as well as blending Loogthuang (traditional Thai music) created a new kind of music. The local audience loved their Liberal Music, remarkably, at all the venues we performed. Anyone is attracted and enthused by Liberal Music.

Lastly, Raft members are ever changing and the concept again comes from Liberal Music. Raft started with Vocal:Nat, Base: Fujioka, Guitar: Fujita and Drums: Koura. However, Nat decided to leave Raft after the 1st performance to continue with her filming career and so they are looking for a new Vocal.
This won’t be the last change in Raft. Liberal Music continues to evolve and grow and this is just a part of the process. “We look forward to forming a new Raft”Fujioka smiles.

Everything is free. Even the members can’t imagine where Raft is gonna take them to. “That’s why is so exciting and worth performing to the limit and beyond” The way they spoke reminded me of those times when they just decided to dedicate their lives to music.

There is a word “Japanese common sense is not the common sense of the world. “Also in this project, there was a meeting with unimaginable people. The most impressive was encountered the man who was hit a buckets and plastic bottles in the street on the third day. Perhaps he is not a professional percussionist. But, Koura interested in his incomparable rhythm. So he offer the session to this man. That would have been unthinkable before. This is also a sign of his growth in Thailand.
Then, it was started Thailand vs Japan of percussion battle. After a while, “Where are you from? “Which came out when the man got breath. Koura answered “Japan “Then the man suddenly changed like a mad. “Tokyo?!” “No, Osaka,” “Tokyo?!!” “No, from Osaka,” “Tokyo?!!”… The crazy man was beating out a bucket and bowl even his stick broke. Finally, they hugged each other and crossed fists.
After a long moment, he still couldn’t understand why the man was excitement and screaming “Tokyo “Actually, he was determined that to hit the dram in the session in the night of the day. But, he had a many bunch of blisters on hands. Whether he can overcome this accident?
Nevertheless, what he was much more concerned with was that he would have been the percussion instrument by the man who heat up during a performance.