Hiroshi Yoshimura
Good morning.
Today we’re listening to Hiroshi Yoshimura, a Japanese ambient artist from Yokohama. We’ve recommended his music three times before. When people ask where to start with ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura is one of the first names we say. The “environmental music” he published in the 1980s remains canonical.1 While most of these albums remain off major streaming platforms, earlier this month the label Temporal Drift reissued the outstanding 1986 LP, Surround. Spare and light, the record was once described by Yoshimura himself as “music that’s as close to air itself.”2 We’re also playing his classic debut album, Music for Nine Post Cards, from 1982.
Surround - Hiroshi Yoshimura (40m, no vocals)
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Music for Nine Post Cards - Hiroshi Yoshimura (50m, no vocals)
Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Bandcamp / Tidal
We wish you a great start to your week.
To hear more of this style of music, check out the Kankyō Ongaku compilation.
This album has accompanied so much through times when I needed to feel grounded. I love this work you are sharing, Thankyou!!!
Just discovered Flow State through a Substack recommendation.
What a great idea for a site. Thank you. I am constantly trying to find ambient music to help me with my personal flow state and this will be where I go now.
Listening to Time after time by Hiroshi as I write. Bliss. Thanks Jo