Hiroshi Yoshimura - A・I・R (Air In Resort) (full Album)

Through New Eyes is a tender and uplifting piano piece that celebrates the precious journey of life as seen through the eyes of a child. Accompanied by the evocative image of a mother cradling her newborn, this song encapsulates the wonder and awe that new life brings.

The composition delicately mirrors the innocence and purity of a baby's first moments, capturing the profound impact of witnessing a child's first experiences. Each note resonates with the joy and hope that come with watching a child grow, exploring the world with fresh eyes and an unspoiled perspective.

Through New Eyes invites listeners to reconnect with their own sense of wonder, encouraging them to see the world anew and cherish the simple beauties that life offers. This track is a heartfelt reminder of the transformative power of new beginnings and the deep, enduring love that binds families from the moment of birth.

Through New Eyes

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue.

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Hiroshi Yoshimura ~ Pier & Loft ** FULL ALBUM || 1983

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dream" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green [1986] [Full Album]

Ryusuke Seto - Dream Land (1979)

from the "Escapism" CS (NNF346)
Not Not Fun / 2018

ESCAPE:
https://htakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/escapism
https://midheaven.com/item/escapism-by-takahashi-h

H Takahashi "Escape"

Flora 1987 (Full Album)

Another ambient new-age electronic masterpiece by Yoshimura

Tracklist

00:00 1. Over The Clover
06:40 2. Flora
12:42 3. Asagao
18:36 4. Ojigisou
21:27 5. Maple Syrup Factory
26:25 6. Adelaide
33:36 7. Wind Echo
36:31 8. Trick Tree
42:21 9. Kasumi
48:17 10. Silence
53:33 11. Satie On The Grass

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue.

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