Hiroshi Yoshimura
Hiroshi Yoshimura (Yokohama, 1940-2003) was a Japanese composer and sound designer, and a pioneer of kankyō ongaku, the environmental music of 1980s Japan. He studied fine art at Waseda University, took his cues from Erik Satie, Fluxus and Harry Partch, and in 1972 started the computer music group Anonyme. His first album, Music for Nine Post Cards (1982), was written to be played inside a museum; Pier & Loft (1983) accompanied a fashion show, A·I·R (1984) was a promotional record for Shiseido, and Surround and Green followed in 1986.
Sorround
The first-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work, produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate!
Quiet Forest
"My encounter with the Hoh Rain Forest, located inside Olympic National Park across the water from Seattle, felt like seeing a whole new world for the first time in my life. Long green fronds draped along the branches, like a scene in which fairies c…
Flora
Tip! Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of Flora, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic.
Flora was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and …
Soundscape 1: Surround
"If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it…
A・I・R (Air In Resort)
Hiroshi Yoshimura was commissioned in 1984 by Japanese multi-national personal care company Shiseido to create something that might be entirely out of his own wheelhouse: music that could complement a fragrance. Mixing bird song and sea sound with en…
Pier & Loft
Self-released on cassette in 1983, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Pier & Loft is a contemporary ambient holy grail, gaining a cult status decade after decade. On this album he brought his environmental music in different areas. Yoshimura had a class on its own,…
Music For Nine Post Cards
2024 stock Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy, Spencer Doran and…
Green
**Small repress available** Green vinyl. First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work ! Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature ris…
Pier & Loft
2018 repress. Gorgeous and essential archive material from this master of mood. The latest unearthing on Chee Shimizu's 17853 - previously only available on a very limited Japanese cassette back early 80s. The late Hiroshi Yoshimura, a pioneer of Jap…