*2025 stock* Renowned Japanese composer Jo Kondo is celebrated for his unique and refined approach to contemporary classical music. This recording offers an intimate journey into Kondo’s distinctive musical world, marked by clarity, restraint, and subtle yet powerful expression.  

In Yokohama brings together a collection of works that exemplify Kondo’s lifelong exploration into sound, silence, and the delicate spaces in between. Throughout the album, the listener is invited to experience music that resists excess, focusing instead on a precise and transparent beauty shaped by deep compositional thought. Commenting on the release, Kondo reflects: “Yokohama, my birthplace and lifelong home, exists within these pieces not as a literal theme but as a presence—a space where personal memory and musical form meet. This album is a tribute to that atmosphere.”  

Jo Kondo has long been internationally admired, with performances of his compositions featured at leading venues and festivals worldwide. His works balance Japanese sensibilities with modernist influences, often drawing comparisons to Morton Feldman and other composers who embrace quiet intensity and temporal spaciousness. Yet in In Yokohama, Kondo’s voice is unmistakably his own: minimalist in its materials, but endlessly rich in resonance.