1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree
9
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi
10
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence
11
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass
Black Vinyl!
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
More records from Hiroshi Yoshimura
1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feel
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sheep
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sleep
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feet
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Street
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Teevee
Crystal Green Vinyl!
First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feel
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sheep
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sleep
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feet
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Street
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Teevee
Translucent Leaves Vinyl!
First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree
9
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi
10
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence
11
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass
CD!
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree
9
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi
10
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence
11
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass
Sky Blue Vinyl!
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time After Time
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time Forest
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Water Planet
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green Show
Repress!
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 into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura
Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.
In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.
A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang.
* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
* Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
* Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
* Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
Original credits:
COMPOSED & PERFORMED Hiroshi Yoshimura
RECORDED Hiroo 806 Studio, Kojima Recording Studio
RECORDING ENGINEER Yukio Kojima
DESIGN Toshikazu Ota
PHOTO Yoichi Nagata
PRODUCTION Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development
Reissue credits:
REISSUE PRODUCERS Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
REMASTERING & LACQUERING John Baldwin
VINYL PRESSING Gotta Groove Records
REISSUE DESIGN & LAYOUT Ella Gold
ARTWORK SCANNING Satomi Sugiyama
RETOUCHING Ward Long
REISSUE LINER NOTES Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
TRANSLATION Yosuke Kitazawa
SPECIAL THANKS Yoko Yoshimura
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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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 into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura
Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.
In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.
A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang.
* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
* Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
* Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
* Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
Original credits:
COMPOSED & PERFORMED Hiroshi Yoshimura
RECORDED Hiroo 806 Studio, Kojima Recording Studio
RECORDING ENGINEER Yukio Kojima
DESIGN Toshikazu Ota
PHOTO Yoichi Nagata
PRODUCTION Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development
Reissue credits:
REISSUE PRODUCERS Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
REMASTERING & LACQUERING John Baldwin
VINYL PRESSING Gotta Groove Records
REISSUE DESIGN & LAYOUT Ella Gold
ARTWORK SCANNING Satomi Sugiyama
RETOUCHING Ward Long
REISSUE LINER NOTES Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
TRANSLATION Yosuke Kitazawa
SPECIAL THANKS Yoko Yoshimura
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Label:TEMPORAL DRIFT
Cat-No:DRFT 20
Release-Date:17.10.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP
Label:TEMPORAL DRIFT
Cat-No:DRFT 20
Release-Date:17.10.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:LP
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - sky
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - rest
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - gush
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - number
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - pause
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - drops
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - scape
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - people
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - finger
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KEIJI HAINO + SHUTA HASUNUMA - latency
Haino sings. Hasunuma plays. It’s a minimal framework, but what emerges is a boundary-blurring sonic exploration. Across the album, Haino’s voice threads through Hasunuma’s layered soundscapes built from analog synths, electric guitar, piano, field recordings, and more. Haino entered the studio with only lyrics in hand, improvising melodies in response to Hasunuma’s evolving arrangements. The result is a work of deep trust, intuition, and sonic tension.Keiji Haino and Shuta Hasunuma’’s creative connection began in 2017 with an impromptu performance in Shibuya—Hasunuma on a Buchla modular synthesizer, Haino responding with the Japanese national anthem, “Kimigayo.” That moment sparked their unlikely collaboration. In 2018 Haino appeared at the Hasunuma-organized event “MUSIC TODAY IN KYOTO” at Rohm Theater, alongside Nobukazu Takemura, Manami Kakudo, Elena Tutatchikova, Kukangendai among others. In September 2021 during the pandemic, the two performed "U TA" for the first time at WWW in Shibuya. They began planning the album soon afterwards. For the recording of U TA, Haino entered the studio with only the lyrics in hand, with no knowledge of what sounds Hasunuma would produce. Responding to Hasunuma’s music in real time, Haino composed the melodies and layered in his voice on the spot. With additional sessions at Hasunuma’s private studio and Haino’s preferred studio, the album was completed.
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass
Sky Blue Vinyl!
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover
2
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora
3
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao
4
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou
5
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory
6
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide
7
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo
8
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree
9
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi
10
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence
11
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass
CD!
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lK7VeSI5ciI&
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 colors 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.
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
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
Selling Points:
- First ever official reissue
- Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
- Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
- Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
- First time on vinyl
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
- CD Digipak
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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1
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time After Time
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time Forest
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Water Planet
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green Show
Repress!
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 into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura
Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.
In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.
A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang.
* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
* Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
* Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
* Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
Original credits:
COMPOSED & PERFORMED Hiroshi Yoshimura
RECORDED Hiroo 806 Studio, Kojima Recording Studio
RECORDING ENGINEER Yukio Kojima
DESIGN Toshikazu Ota
PHOTO Yoichi Nagata
PRODUCTION Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development
Reissue credits:
REISSUE PRODUCERS Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
REMASTERING & LACQUERING John Baldwin
VINYL PRESSING Gotta Groove Records
REISSUE DESIGN & LAYOUT Ella Gold
ARTWORK SCANNING Satomi Sugiyama
RETOUCHING Ward Long
REISSUE LINER NOTES Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
TRANSLATION Yosuke Kitazawa
SPECIAL THANKS Yoko Yoshimura
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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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 into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura
Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.
In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.
A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang.
* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
* Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
* Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
* Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
Original credits:
COMPOSED & PERFORMED Hiroshi Yoshimura
RECORDED Hiroo 806 Studio, Kojima Recording Studio
RECORDING ENGINEER Yukio Kojima
DESIGN Toshikazu Ota
PHOTO Yoichi Nagata
PRODUCTION Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development
Reissue credits:
REISSUE PRODUCERS Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
REMASTERING & LACQUERING John Baldwin
VINYL PRESSING Gotta Groove Records
REISSUE DESIGN & LAYOUT Ella Gold
ARTWORK SCANNING Satomi Sugiyama
RETOUCHING Ward Long
REISSUE LINER NOTES Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
TRANSLATION Yosuke Kitazawa
SPECIAL THANKS Yoko Yoshimura
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DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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RH1 - Timpan
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RH1 - Selenar
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RH1 - Threshhold
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RH1 - Interludiu
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RH1 - Awake
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RH1 - Enter
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RH1 - Crusher
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"Kamino blends deep basslines, melodic textures, and experimental electronics into a personal sonic journey. RH1 crafts immersive tracks that drift between emotion and abstraction, offering a sound that's intimate, cinematic, and infused with a sense of upward-looking hopefulness."
1. Timpan
2. Selenar
3. Threshhold
4. Interludiu
5. Awake
6. Enter
7. Crusher
8. Varia
9. Heart of The Aspects
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1. Timpan
2. Selenar
3. Threshhold
4. Interludiu
5. Awake
6. Enter
7. Crusher
8. Varia
9. Heart of The Aspects
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Dead Bandit - Milk
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Dead Bandit - Weeds
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Dead Bandit - Glass
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Dead Bandit - Half Smoked Cigarette
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Dead Bandit - Miles
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Dead Bandit - Sheets
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Dead Bandit - Buttercup
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Dead Bandit - Pink
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Dead Bandit - Amer Picon
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Dead Bandit - The Bug
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Dead Bandit - Up To Your Waist
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Dead Bandit - Spidery Ways
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Dead Bandit - Koyo
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Dead Bandit - Let The Dog Decide
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Dead Bandit - Lucien’s Bitters
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Dead Bandit - One Eyed
Genre: Ambient, Post Rock, Downtempo
Capturing phantom drones behind dusty beats and haunted twangs, Ellis Swan and James Schimpl return for their third album as Dead Bandit. Locked into a musical language unique to their collaboration, the duo once again put us out to pasture across broad sonic plains, drums flapping like loose fence panels in the prairie breeze and bass rumbling like distant thunder. True to their previous two records, Swan and Schimpl keep the strung out guitars at the front of what they do, whether playing a naked, desolate strum or running six strings through disruptive effects processing until they're barely recognisable.
But while there are details of disturbance when listening to Dead Bandit's self-titled record up close, the wider impression is a smoother, more direct affair that toys with post-rock complexity and matches it with the emotional weight of melodic simplicity, gentle grooves and conscious arrangements. 'Weeds' offsets its languid fuzz guitar with shimmering sustained notes before settling into a patient, heavy-hearted composition charged with heartbreak leads pealing out in the middle distance.
By comparison, 'Glass' has a smoky, half-hidden backroom quality. Its brushed whisper of a beat, lingering guitar drones and subtle sub bass come on like a dub wise flip of a sad-eyed country ballad. The mood maintains on 'Half Smoked Cigarette', which captures the grey sky sullenness of post-punk and reframes it in the seductive isolation of rural America. While there's a thickness to the sound on these most direct of tracks on the album, there's also fragility inherent to the sound world Dead Bandit have been shaping out over these past few years.
'Buttercup' swaps sadness for sinister undercurrents, once more drawing on fulsome low end to fill out the sparse threads of instrumentation up top. 'Pink' finds a steady momentum for its own brand of brooding mystery, the sharp end of the beat bringing focus to the many-layered approaches to the guitar which roundly define the Dead Bandit sound. There's an even clearer direction mapped out in the vintage drum machine pulse of 'Koyo', all the better to carry swirling effects treatments and moody melodic figures. Even in these ominous climes there's space for plaintive, endearing hooks which land as the most direct phrases in Dead Bandit's musical lexicon to date.
The fundamental sound across this album holds true, but Dead Bandit are never bound to a singular practice. 'Lucien's Bitters' strikes up a pronounced drum machine beat which comes on like 90s downtempo, and it feels like a natural vessel for the heavy, shoegaze tinted lament of the guitars. At every turn, Swan and Schimpl prove their affinity for all kinds of approaches, and yet the end product is a deeply cohesive, immediate listen that shows just how clear their creative vision really is.
Tracklist:
A1 Milk
A2 Weeds
A3 Glass
A4 Half Smoked Cigarette
A5 Miles
A6 Sheets
A7 Buttercup
A8 Pink
B1 Amer Picon
B2 The Bug
B3 Up To Your Waist
B4 Spidery Ways
B5 Koyo
B6 Let The Dog Decide
B7 Lucien’s Bitters
B8 One Eyed
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Capturing phantom drones behind dusty beats and haunted twangs, Ellis Swan and James Schimpl return for their third album as Dead Bandit. Locked into a musical language unique to their collaboration, the duo once again put us out to pasture across broad sonic plains, drums flapping like loose fence panels in the prairie breeze and bass rumbling like distant thunder. True to their previous two records, Swan and Schimpl keep the strung out guitars at the front of what they do, whether playing a naked, desolate strum or running six strings through disruptive effects processing until they're barely recognisable.
But while there are details of disturbance when listening to Dead Bandit's self-titled record up close, the wider impression is a smoother, more direct affair that toys with post-rock complexity and matches it with the emotional weight of melodic simplicity, gentle grooves and conscious arrangements. 'Weeds' offsets its languid fuzz guitar with shimmering sustained notes before settling into a patient, heavy-hearted composition charged with heartbreak leads pealing out in the middle distance.
By comparison, 'Glass' has a smoky, half-hidden backroom quality. Its brushed whisper of a beat, lingering guitar drones and subtle sub bass come on like a dub wise flip of a sad-eyed country ballad. The mood maintains on 'Half Smoked Cigarette', which captures the grey sky sullenness of post-punk and reframes it in the seductive isolation of rural America. While there's a thickness to the sound on these most direct of tracks on the album, there's also fragility inherent to the sound world Dead Bandit have been shaping out over these past few years.
'Buttercup' swaps sadness for sinister undercurrents, once more drawing on fulsome low end to fill out the sparse threads of instrumentation up top. 'Pink' finds a steady momentum for its own brand of brooding mystery, the sharp end of the beat bringing focus to the many-layered approaches to the guitar which roundly define the Dead Bandit sound. There's an even clearer direction mapped out in the vintage drum machine pulse of 'Koyo', all the better to carry swirling effects treatments and moody melodic figures. Even in these ominous climes there's space for plaintive, endearing hooks which land as the most direct phrases in Dead Bandit's musical lexicon to date.
The fundamental sound across this album holds true, but Dead Bandit are never bound to a singular practice. 'Lucien's Bitters' strikes up a pronounced drum machine beat which comes on like 90s downtempo, and it feels like a natural vessel for the heavy, shoegaze tinted lament of the guitars. At every turn, Swan and Schimpl prove their affinity for all kinds of approaches, and yet the end product is a deeply cohesive, immediate listen that shows just how clear their creative vision really is.
Tracklist:
A1 Milk
A2 Weeds
A3 Glass
A4 Half Smoked Cigarette
A5 Miles
A6 Sheets
A7 Buttercup
A8 Pink
B1 Amer Picon
B2 The Bug
B3 Up To Your Waist
B4 Spidery Ways
B5 Koyo
B6 Let The Dog Decide
B7 Lucien’s Bitters
B8 One Eyed
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Ear To Ear - Live Recording A
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Ear To Ear - Live Recording B
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Ear To Ear - Live Recording C
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Ear To Ear - Live Recording D
2 x 12" 180g Gatefold Vinyl (digital download included)
AI-36 comes from Ear to Ear - the debut collaboration between label regular Samuel van Dijk (Multicast Dynamics) and Ukrainian artist Yevgen Chebotarenko. Taken from a series of live recording sessions, the album explores in four parts a markedly darker realm of soundscape music. A cornucopia of abstract morphing scenes and heady synesthesia, the album brims with rich sonic detail and evocative gestures. Deftly blending organic sound textures with an experimental austerity, ‘Live Recordings’ displays potent and accomplished storytelling.
The album opens to a grey overcast vista, a natural landscape that slowly melts into a descending chasmic dysphoria. The mood transitions to a drone-based piece on the B-side, characterised by a more psychologically suspenseful framework and exotic blend of sound design. The atmosphere lightens, yet equally pensive as side C takes on a more elemental form, invoking water and its array of microbial and metabolic ecosystems. Brief cathartic moments in the final section pave the way for deeper wayfaring on the D-side. Stray signals and unknowable artefacts skitter across a vast subaqueous domain, a fathomless womb of potentialities that ebbs into eternity.
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AI-36 comes from Ear to Ear - the debut collaboration between label regular Samuel van Dijk (Multicast Dynamics) and Ukrainian artist Yevgen Chebotarenko. Taken from a series of live recording sessions, the album explores in four parts a markedly darker realm of soundscape music. A cornucopia of abstract morphing scenes and heady synesthesia, the album brims with rich sonic detail and evocative gestures. Deftly blending organic sound textures with an experimental austerity, ‘Live Recordings’ displays potent and accomplished storytelling.
The album opens to a grey overcast vista, a natural landscape that slowly melts into a descending chasmic dysphoria. The mood transitions to a drone-based piece on the B-side, characterised by a more psychologically suspenseful framework and exotic blend of sound design. The atmosphere lightens, yet equally pensive as side C takes on a more elemental form, invoking water and its array of microbial and metabolic ecosystems. Brief cathartic moments in the final section pave the way for deeper wayfaring on the D-side. Stray signals and unknowable artefacts skitter across a vast subaqueous domain, a fathomless womb of potentialities that ebbs into eternity.
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Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville70
Release-Date:05.09.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
Label:Smallville Records
Cat-No:smallville70
Release-Date:05.09.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
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Ashtar Afterhours - Body Music
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Ashtar Afterhours - Lite Of My Life
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Ashtar Afterhours - Intro To Ashtar
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Ashtar Afterhours - Touchy Feely
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Ashtar Afterhours - Taeya Vs. Gia Maria
Artwork and Typography by Stefan Marx
Tracklist:
A1 Body Music
A2 Lite Of My Life
B1 Intro To Ashtar
B2 Touchy Feely
B3 Taeya Vs. Gia Marie
Here's to a special one..
Ashtar Afterhours is Kenneth Graham - originally from Los Angeles, he has been a defining presence in electronic music ever since the 90s. Buying his first classic synthesizer, a Yamaha CS01, in 1984, he delved into music production at an early stage. Kenneth put out over 40 releases over the years- under his own name as well as stepping up under various aliases- Estelle Montenegro, KG Beat, Exit Strategy and many others. Kenneth also formed some super-groups together with friends, his Sun Children / Sunkiss project- together with David Alvarado- put out highly influential music on legendary Peacefrog Records.
Body Music was originally released on Plastic City in 2001 and it has been a Smallville favourite since a long time, so we are super happy to present this beauty as a repress, as always with a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.
All tracks written & produced by Kenneth Graham, B3 w&p by Kenneth Graham & Gabriel Ortega
Vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
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Tracklist:
A1 Body Music
A2 Lite Of My Life
B1 Intro To Ashtar
B2 Touchy Feely
B3 Taeya Vs. Gia Marie
Here's to a special one..
Ashtar Afterhours is Kenneth Graham - originally from Los Angeles, he has been a defining presence in electronic music ever since the 90s. Buying his first classic synthesizer, a Yamaha CS01, in 1984, he delved into music production at an early stage. Kenneth put out over 40 releases over the years- under his own name as well as stepping up under various aliases- Estelle Montenegro, KG Beat, Exit Strategy and many others. Kenneth also formed some super-groups together with friends, his Sun Children / Sunkiss project- together with David Alvarado- put out highly influential music on legendary Peacefrog Records.
Body Music was originally released on Plastic City in 2001 and it has been a Smallville favourite since a long time, so we are super happy to present this beauty as a repress, as always with a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.
All tracks written & produced by Kenneth Graham, B3 w&p by Kenneth Graham & Gabriel Ortega
Vinyl cut by Helmut Erler at Lathesville
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Carlos Ferreira - A01. a boat full of dreams
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Carlos Ferreira - A02. fragile
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Carlos Ferreira - A03. the waiting
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Carlos Ferreira - B04. in another way
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Carlos Ferreira - B05. old wounds
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Carlos Ferreira - B06. where we belong
LP
2. GENRE/S: Ambient, Electronica
3. TRACKLISTS:
Side A:
01. a boat full of dreams
02. fragile
03. the waiting
Side B:
04. in another way
05. old wounds
06. where we belong
4. SHORT INFO:
“In May 2024, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where I was born and have lived all my
life, faced the worst climate catastrophe in its history. After weeks of relentless, torrential rain, its
rivers overflowed, flooding much of the region. Entire cities were submerged. More than 170
people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands of animals perished. Amid this dystopian and
desperate situation, flux was composed and recorded in about a week. Initially, the album was
created solely as an exercise to maintain my mental health. But when I finished it, I realized that it
had become a kind of “sound portrait” of this dark moment—days filled with pain and suffering. Yet
it was also a meditation on the ephemerality and fragility of life, and the struggle to survive.”
CREDITS:
All music composed and performed by Carlos Ferreira using electric guitars, ppooll, sampling,
piano, synthesizers and fx pedals.
Cover layout and design: Sergio Vidal
Photos: Leo Caobelli
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2. GENRE/S: Ambient, Electronica
3. TRACKLISTS:
Side A:
01. a boat full of dreams
02. fragile
03. the waiting
Side B:
04. in another way
05. old wounds
06. where we belong
4. SHORT INFO:
“In May 2024, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where I was born and have lived all my
life, faced the worst climate catastrophe in its history. After weeks of relentless, torrential rain, its
rivers overflowed, flooding much of the region. Entire cities were submerged. More than 170
people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands of animals perished. Amid this dystopian and
desperate situation, flux was composed and recorded in about a week. Initially, the album was
created solely as an exercise to maintain my mental health. But when I finished it, I realized that it
had become a kind of “sound portrait” of this dark moment—days filled with pain and suffering. Yet
it was also a meditation on the ephemerality and fragility of life, and the struggle to survive.”
CREDITS:
All music composed and performed by Carlos Ferreira using electric guitars, ppooll, sampling,
piano, synthesizers and fx pedals.
Cover layout and design: Sergio Vidal
Photos: Leo Caobelli
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Label:Fleur Sauvage
Cat-No:FS001
Release-Date:13.06.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:2LP
Label:Fleur Sauvage
Cat-No:FS001
Release-Date:13.06.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:2LP
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Katatonic Silentio - I
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Katatonic Silentio - II
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Katatonic Silentio - III
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Katatonic Silentio - IV
Introducing Fleur Sauvage: A New Chapter Rooted in Emotion and Community
The idea for Fleur Sauvage first took shape in 2022, quietly evolving and shared only with a select few. It began with a desire to give new life to the spellbinding improvisations experienced at La Nature—those rare, unrepeatable instants that move us deeply and stay with us long after the sound has faded.
In the spirit of that beginning, the label will open space for a variety of releases: expect intimate solo works, carefully curated compilations, and other sonic offerings from artists close to our he(art).
More than just adding a new label to the world, our purpose is to grow with our community. Community is everything. At the end of the day, what matters most to us are the relationships we cultivate—with artists, supporters, collaborators, and the many spirited souls who help us create these rare and radiant gatherings.
Katatonic Silentio – Live at La Nature 2023
Captured in the immersive cocoon of the Hypnose Room during the 2023 edition of La Nature, this debut release on Fleur Sauvage is a raw transmission of Katatonic Silentio’s improvisational live ritual.
Split into four parts across two 12” records, this work moves between experimental abstraction, textured noise, and cinematic ambient. Tension runs like a thread through each piece—sometimes humming beneath the surface, sometimes rupturing into visceral sonic peaks that leave you breathless. Deep low-end pulses and granular ruptures twist through fleeting moments of stillness, creating a sense of instability that is both electrifying and intimate.
The recording documents more than a performance—it holds space for something elemental, unpredictable, and deeply embodied. As always with Katatonic Silentio, the sound is not just heard—it is inhabited.
Release: Fleur Sauvage 001 – Double 12” 180g vinyl in single cover
Artist: Katatonic Silentio
Recorded live at La Nature 2023
Mastering: Enisslab
Artwork: Simon Medard & Vincent Evrard
Cover: Siméon Grégoire
Pressplant: AFG
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The idea for Fleur Sauvage first took shape in 2022, quietly evolving and shared only with a select few. It began with a desire to give new life to the spellbinding improvisations experienced at La Nature—those rare, unrepeatable instants that move us deeply and stay with us long after the sound has faded.
In the spirit of that beginning, the label will open space for a variety of releases: expect intimate solo works, carefully curated compilations, and other sonic offerings from artists close to our he(art).
More than just adding a new label to the world, our purpose is to grow with our community. Community is everything. At the end of the day, what matters most to us are the relationships we cultivate—with artists, supporters, collaborators, and the many spirited souls who help us create these rare and radiant gatherings.
Katatonic Silentio – Live at La Nature 2023
Captured in the immersive cocoon of the Hypnose Room during the 2023 edition of La Nature, this debut release on Fleur Sauvage is a raw transmission of Katatonic Silentio’s improvisational live ritual.
Split into four parts across two 12” records, this work moves between experimental abstraction, textured noise, and cinematic ambient. Tension runs like a thread through each piece—sometimes humming beneath the surface, sometimes rupturing into visceral sonic peaks that leave you breathless. Deep low-end pulses and granular ruptures twist through fleeting moments of stillness, creating a sense of instability that is both electrifying and intimate.
The recording documents more than a performance—it holds space for something elemental, unpredictable, and deeply embodied. As always with Katatonic Silentio, the sound is not just heard—it is inhabited.
Release: Fleur Sauvage 001 – Double 12” 180g vinyl in single cover
Artist: Katatonic Silentio
Recorded live at La Nature 2023
Mastering: Enisslab
Artwork: Simon Medard & Vincent Evrard
Cover: Siméon Grégoire
Pressplant: AFG
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Portland, OR-based multimedia artist William Selman returns to Mysteries of the Deep with his third album for the label. Drawing on influences such as David Toop, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elizabeth Waldo, and David Behrman, “The Weather Indoors” melds live and synthesized instrumentation, field recordings, and digital processing techniques in a new, more melodic and approachable direction.
Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concept of “inversion,” this widescreen staging cuts immediately to the core of the project: the way human beings use the faculty of imagination to aestheticize their built surroundings with architecture, images of distant locales, and domesticated flora and fauna to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.
A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog, “The Weather Indoors” captures his work at a moment expanding his musical and aesthetic project: Neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.
“We are contaminated by our encounters: they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge. Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.” —Anne Lowenhaupt-Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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'A Soft Degeneration' was featured in a mix from Mysteries label boss, Grant Aaron, entitled 'Sundays are for' – hosted by Delayed.
William Selman has releases on Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life, Going In, Hausu Mountain.
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Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concept of “inversion,” this widescreen staging cuts immediately to the core of the project: the way human beings use the faculty of imagination to aestheticize their built surroundings with architecture, images of distant locales, and domesticated flora and fauna to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.
A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog, “The Weather Indoors” captures his work at a moment expanding his musical and aesthetic project: Neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.
“We are contaminated by our encounters: they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge. Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.” —Anne Lowenhaupt-Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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'A Soft Degeneration' was featured in a mix from Mysteries label boss, Grant Aaron, entitled 'Sundays are for' – hosted by Delayed.
William Selman has releases on Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life, Going In, Hausu Mountain.
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MPU101 - Block-1_Dv190
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MPU101 - Doepfarp
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MPU101 - Team 700_76
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MPU101 - Dues700
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MPU101 - Block-1_2Area666
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MPU101 - Ppg2_3Modemon
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MPU101 - Vanlife_702 Abcd
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MPU101 - Trailerparkbeauty
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MPU101 - Leavebehind
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MPU101 - Rioria Juice
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MPU101 - Sunset
Trailerpark Beauty Sunset Memories
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The Angel Code - Dorcas
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The Angel Code - Absence
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The Angel Code - Jure Mo Tuhe
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The Angel Code - Cryst
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The Angel Code - Forgive and Forgive (Open Version)
We are pleased to announce our new EP from Simon Schilling, known under the pseudonym 'The Angel Code'. The talented ambient producer, originally from Heidelberg, brings a breath of fresh air to the ambient scene with his latest work. The release will be available both on vinyl and digitally in March. The Vinyl buyers will also receive a special bonus gift.
The Angel Code is not merely an ambient music project; it is an invitation to wander inward, to inspire introspection and connection. Blending ethereal textures, subtle melodies, and atmospheric layers.
A place where sound becomes emotion. Trust in the unseen. Let the code guide you. Vinyl Tastes Better...
Credits:
Artist: Simon Schilling
Cover Design: Alex Ketzer
Mastered by: Lopazz
TRACKLIST:
A1 Dorcas
A2 Absence
A3 Jure Mo Tuhe
B1 Cryst
B2 Forgive and Forgive (Open Version)
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The Angel Code is not merely an ambient music project; it is an invitation to wander inward, to inspire introspection and connection. Blending ethereal textures, subtle melodies, and atmospheric layers.
A place where sound becomes emotion. Trust in the unseen. Let the code guide you. Vinyl Tastes Better...
Credits:
Artist: Simon Schilling
Cover Design: Alex Ketzer
Mastered by: Lopazz
TRACKLIST:
A1 Dorcas
A2 Absence
A3 Jure Mo Tuhe
B1 Cryst
B2 Forgive and Forgive (Open Version)
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Marco Shuttle - Part One
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Marco Shuttle - Part Two
180g black vinyl
LP booklet included
mastered by Noel Summerville
original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.
Italian sound artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with AI-39. Alluring and evocative, 'Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva' is a journey deep into the Amazon rainforest, seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also a rumination on the problem of its impending destruction.
In this album Shuttle sees the continuation and further ripening of an ongoing creative process, utilising both audio and visual documentations as source material. On this occasion most of the field recordings were taken in the Tupana Arü Ü nature reserve in the Amazonas region of Columbia, between Leticia and Puerto Nariño.
For the compositional process Shuttle employs a distinctly minimalist approach, achieving highly rich and articulate soundscapes with relatively little. Painting with an almost impressionistic stroke, the depth of imagery is underpinned by a strong experimental leaning and a sophisticated musical language.
Within its wild freeform, the seamless interplay between nature and the machines sees them merge into a mysterious dance - a liquifying sequence of scenes that shimmer with flora, fauna and the unmistakable aliveness of the jungle. A procession of sputtering and cavernous pulsations, sprawling biologies and hidden mysteries, the jungle as an entity, a spirit, begins to emerge. With all its peculiarities and strangeness, it reveals a world of seeming chaos, yet underneath it all a thread of something innately conscious.
Although it could be considered a form of sound diary, the scope spans much further than a standalone creative work. Within its intoxicating montage of shifting forms, 'Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva' stands as a sonic ethnography, and a contemplation on time, space, and our evolving relationship with nature.
Ongoing large-scale logging, agriculture and infrastructure projects are leading to significant deforestation in the Amazon, and continues to threaten biodiversity, the global environment and the livelihoods of indigenous communities. Part of the proceedings from this release will be donated to Amazon Watch (amazonwatch.org), a nonprofit organisation that works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
"Special thanks goes to Marco Cruz from Amazon Jungle Trips and to Aberlardo and Manuel (who is also the narrator of the story at the end of Part 2), the indigenous guides who took me deep into the forest and made me experience its overwhelmingly powerful beauty. This record is dedicated to Colombia and all the fantastic people I met in this wonderful country" - Marco Shuttle
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LP booklet included
mastered by Noel Summerville
original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.
Italian sound artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with AI-39. Alluring and evocative, 'Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva' is a journey deep into the Amazon rainforest, seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also a rumination on the problem of its impending destruction.
In this album Shuttle sees the continuation and further ripening of an ongoing creative process, utilising both audio and visual documentations as source material. On this occasion most of the field recordings were taken in the Tupana Arü Ü nature reserve in the Amazonas region of Columbia, between Leticia and Puerto Nariño.
For the compositional process Shuttle employs a distinctly minimalist approach, achieving highly rich and articulate soundscapes with relatively little. Painting with an almost impressionistic stroke, the depth of imagery is underpinned by a strong experimental leaning and a sophisticated musical language.
Within its wild freeform, the seamless interplay between nature and the machines sees them merge into a mysterious dance - a liquifying sequence of scenes that shimmer with flora, fauna and the unmistakable aliveness of the jungle. A procession of sputtering and cavernous pulsations, sprawling biologies and hidden mysteries, the jungle as an entity, a spirit, begins to emerge. With all its peculiarities and strangeness, it reveals a world of seeming chaos, yet underneath it all a thread of something innately conscious.
Although it could be considered a form of sound diary, the scope spans much further than a standalone creative work. Within its intoxicating montage of shifting forms, 'Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva' stands as a sonic ethnography, and a contemplation on time, space, and our evolving relationship with nature.
Ongoing large-scale logging, agriculture and infrastructure projects are leading to significant deforestation in the Amazon, and continues to threaten biodiversity, the global environment and the livelihoods of indigenous communities. Part of the proceedings from this release will be donated to Amazon Watch (amazonwatch.org), a nonprofit organisation that works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
"Special thanks goes to Marco Cruz from Amazon Jungle Trips and to Aberlardo and Manuel (who is also the narrator of the story at the end of Part 2), the indigenous guides who took me deep into the forest and made me experience its overwhelmingly powerful beauty. This record is dedicated to Colombia and all the fantastic people I met in this wonderful country" - Marco Shuttle
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Bassolino - Baid Alik (With Marzouk Mejri)
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Bassolino - Popoli Del Mare
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feel
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sheep
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Sleep
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Feet
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Street
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Hiroshi Yoshimura - Teevee
Crystal Green Vinyl!
First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
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First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work from the esteemed, Hiroshi Yoshimura
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.
Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.
This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US).
Selling Points:
- First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
- Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
- Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
- Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura
- Available on 2 color variants: Translucent Leaves Vinyl or Green Vinyl
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