Hiroshi Yoshimura // Surround LP [COLOR/BLACK] / CD

This is a reissue album by Japanese ambient artist Hiroshi Yoshimura released in December 2023. (Originally released in 12)

Contains 6 refreshing new age ambient songs.

*The record has some corner scratches, so we will offer it at a low price.

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Available on 12" black vinyl, 12" blue swirl color vinyl, or CD in digipack.

tracklist:

1. Time after time
2.Surround
3. Something blue
4. Time forest
5. Water planet
6.Green shower

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Temporal Drift:

"Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes as part of their Soundscape series, 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."

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Artist statement by Hiroshi Yoshimura:

"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."

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshimura

Label: Temporal Drift