FuJaBoCla – A New Music Genre Emerges
FuJaBoCla stands for Funk, Jazz, Bossa, and Classical. These four labels represent some of the rich cultural musical influences found around the world. Other styles such as Rock and Pop are deliberately left aside, because engaging with FuJaBoCla naturally creates a contaminated version of Pop and Rock as well. The journey begins in Europe and travels toward North and South America.
The world today is shaped by ideas of many colors. Chinese, Pakistani, Indian, Japanese, Moroccan, and Brazilian cultures are now found everywhere outdoors, transforming the way we think, live, and interpret our surroundings. Even our everyday habits have shifted. Not long ago, choices were limited to Italian restaurants and pizza places. Now everything has changed. Japanese, Chinese, Moroccan, Indian, and Greek eateries are commonplace.
A parallel transformation is taking place in music. We have reached a point where rhythm, melody, and musical variety have expanded tremendously.
FuJaBoCla is built on a strong classical foundation. In this view, a solid grounding in classical culture lies at the origin of everything. Just as Einstein once devoted time to studying classical mathematics to grasp its secrets and shortcomings, the decision here is to infuse a significant amount of classical music into the broader musical landscape. Classical does not refer only to the period of great classical composition. It includes everything rooted in a definite and enduring theory — in short, anything containing a pure substance. The word definite suggests that classical music is governed by rules but also by emotion and passion, distinguishing it from something exact, since nothing in music is truly exact. Everlasting means that a sound, strong theory is confirmed by time.
Performing FuJaBoCla is quite challenging. There is a real risk of writing something that jumps from one genre to another without a logical thread. That difficulty is the heart of the matter: creating musical change that stays connected to the same roots. An attempt at something similar was made in progressive rock, but the result was considerable confusion.
FuJaBoCla differs. Simplicity lies at the core of its entire creation, even when mixing a wide variety of styles. Something comparable is already happening in Milan’s public houses, with lounge music. What is it? Drawing‑room music? Dance music? Background music for a drink? It is a genre that has existed for only about fifty years, blending Jazz, Soul, Ambient, and newer elements added over time. Could something like this reshape Pop music, creating a new contaminated Pop? Yes, it could. In fact, it is already happening — the good songs never really die.
Is it still possible today to talk only about Jazz? Should we move forward? Can exceptionally virtuosic musicians fail to see that music must evolve, that a vast amount of music remains undiscovered? Baricco wrote in his book Nineteen Hundred: “The keys of a piano have a beginning and an end but the music you can create is infinite.” It is true that music has yet to be fully explored. It is also true that some believe music has reached its end, that nothing exists beyond Jazz. Yet everything still awaits discovery.