Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Hiroshi Yoshimura
- Title: Flora
- Year Of Release: 2006/2025
- Label: Temporal Drift
- Genre: Ambient
- Quality: FLAC 24/44100
- Total Time: 00:58:21
- Total Size: 517 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
The next time anyone tells you that the compact disc is dead, just let them know that CD copies of Flora 1987 have been going for hundreds of dollars on the used market. Hiroshi Yoshimura has, of course, been recently rediscovered, along with a newfound admiration for Japanese ambient music from the late 1970s and '80s. However, when Flora 1987 was originally released in 2006 (despite having been recorded nearly two decades prior), Yoshimura had been dead for three years. The sense of melancholy engendered by the recent campaign to reissue his work is exacerbated by the knowledge that he's an artist who was discovered entirely too late.
To be fair, Yoshimura wasn't exactly an unknown while he was alive. He was a member of Taj Mahal Travellers, and his work could be found in museums, galleries, and commercial work across Japan. He was also—perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect—a colleague of Harold Budd who helped organize his first Japanese concert in the early '80s. Some of the pieces ("Satie on the Grass," "Wind Echo") have a pianistic approach similar to Budd's, but Yoshimura's playing is a lot more present. Most of the album, though, distinctly reflects Yoshimura's unique approach to environmental music. The title track is one the most explicitly "ambient" cuts here, filling the soundstage with warm, repetitive synth patterns, angelic choruses, and a gentle spaciousness that demands nothing of the listener, while others, like "Adelaide" and "Trick Tree" are similarly calming, if more cinematic and sweeping in their scope.
Then there's a cut like "Ojigisou," which is abstract in its approach, with a disjointed feel that is unnerving (it almost sounds like a Harold Budd song glitching out); by contrast, it's immediately followed by "Maple Syrup Factory," a near-playful and highly melodic number that weaves multiple themes into an expansive composition. It all comes together to make this a much more diverse and sonically dense album than any of Yoshimura's others. © Jason Ferguson
Tracklist:
1-1 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover [6:40]
1-2 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora [6:02]
1-3 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao [5:54]
1-4 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou [2:50]
1-5 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory [4:58]
1-6 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide [7:11]
1-7 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo [2:55]
1-8 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree [5:50]
1-9 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi [5:56]
1-10 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence [5:16]
1-11 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass [4:48]
To be fair, Yoshimura wasn't exactly an unknown while he was alive. He was a member of Taj Mahal Travellers, and his work could be found in museums, galleries, and commercial work across Japan. He was also—perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect—a colleague of Harold Budd who helped organize his first Japanese concert in the early '80s. Some of the pieces ("Satie on the Grass," "Wind Echo") have a pianistic approach similar to Budd's, but Yoshimura's playing is a lot more present. Most of the album, though, distinctly reflects Yoshimura's unique approach to environmental music. The title track is one the most explicitly "ambient" cuts here, filling the soundstage with warm, repetitive synth patterns, angelic choruses, and a gentle spaciousness that demands nothing of the listener, while others, like "Adelaide" and "Trick Tree" are similarly calming, if more cinematic and sweeping in their scope.
Then there's a cut like "Ojigisou," which is abstract in its approach, with a disjointed feel that is unnerving (it almost sounds like a Harold Budd song glitching out); by contrast, it's immediately followed by "Maple Syrup Factory," a near-playful and highly melodic number that weaves multiple themes into an expansive composition. It all comes together to make this a much more diverse and sonically dense album than any of Yoshimura's others. © Jason Ferguson
Tracklist:
1-1 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover [6:40]
1-2 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora [6:02]
1-3 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Asagao [5:54]
1-4 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ojigisou [2:50]
1-5 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Maple Syrup Factory [4:58]
1-6 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Adelaide [7:11]
1-7 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wind Echo [2:55]
1-8 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Trick Tree [5:50]
1-9 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Kasumi [5:56]
1-10 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Silence [5:16]
1-11 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Satie On The Grass [4:48]
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