HIROSHI YOSHIMURA - Flora (Reissue) - CD [MAR 21]

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  • Label: Temporal Drift

  • Barcode: 850054840134

  • Catalogue ID: DRFT14CD

  • Format: CD

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    CD - Digipak with OBI card and booklet. First ever official reissue. Comes with liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma. Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin.  

    Flora is an album that is listened to perpetually,
    Passed on from one listener to another,
    And the charm of the sound- and music-loving figure 
    known as Hiroshi Yoshimura,
    Just might come drifting through.
    Like the scent of a small flower.
    Junichi Konuma

    Announcing the worldwide reissue of Flora, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s underrated work originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003.

    Flora is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s acclaimed 1986 works Green and Surround, wherein Yoshimura continues to play with the ambience of sound and the sound of ambience, underscoring his mastery in the field of environmental music. Listening to Flora is like taking a stroll in a park, absorbing the colours and textures of the natural environment—flowers, insects, the swaying of the leaves—as Yoshimura often did at his beloved Edo-era park near his home in Tokyo. As Junichi Konuma describes in his liner notes, Yoshimura’s music “only begins to emerge as it exists at the intersection of passive and active.” Yoshimura's approach to sound and melody invites the listener to hear the intricacies of the music with intent, while simultaneously allowing the aural textures to exist as part of the background of our everyday life.

    This reissue marks the first time the album will be available on vinyl (2LP, 45 rpm) and cassette, and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma and remastered audio by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran

    Tracklist: 

    1. Over The Clover オーバー·ザ·クローバー 
    2. Flora フローラ
    3. Asagao アサガオ
    4. Ojigisou オジギソウ
    5. Maple Syrup Factory メイプル·シロップ·ファクトリー
    6. Adelaide アデレード
    7. Wind Echo ウィンド·エコー
    8. Trick Tree トリック·ツリー
    9. Kasumi カスミ
    10. Silence サイレンス
    11. Satie On The Grass サティ·オン·ザ·グラ

    All composed and performed by Hiroshi Yoshimura
    Photos by Hiroshi Yoshimura & Takeo Kubota
    Recorded by Hiroshi Yoshimura at Hiroo 806 Studio, 1987
    Produced for release by Yasushi Takamatsu & Tamiko Hohda
    Original art direction by gift_lab (Toshikazu Goto & Fumiko Ikeda)
    Original cover design by Takuu tuore Inc. (Masahito Suda)

    Reissue produced by Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
    Remastered by John Baldwin
    Reissue layout and design by Tiffanie Tran
    Liner notes by Junichi Konuma

    HIROSHI YOSHIMURA - Flora (Reissue) - CD [MAR 21]

    HIROSHI YOSHIMURA - Flora (Reissue) - CD [MAR 21]

    Regular price €25.99
    Sale price €25.99 Regular price
    Unit price

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