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Taken from the album 'The Fallen Host' - available now from Blueneck.com.

Lilitu

06 I Lived On The Moon (Acoustic/Remastered)

Takashi Kokubo (小久保隆) - Oasis Of The Wind (風のオアシス～イオンの森) (1992) [Full Album] 528hz

Today, Penguin Cafe announce their fifth studio album, Rain Before Seven… due for release on July 7. They also share the video and single In Re Budd. Watch: https://youtu.be/Jgo0vj8OkOQ

Discussing the track, band leader Arthur Jeffes explains; "This was the first piece I ever wrote on the balafon — and the day I was recording it I heard about Harold Budd's passing away. I never met him but I’ve always loved his work and I felt that the incongruity of the track wouldn’t be at all inappropriate for a dedication."

The In Re Budd video is a sublime performance with visuals and backdrop inspired by the cafe in Simon Jeffes’ infamous fever dream hallucinations, which led to the creation of the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

The group will be headlining the Erased Tapes label festival at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on May 20, as well as appear at this year's Wilderness Festival, followed by a UK/Europe tour in November, with plans to tour Japan and North America in early 2024.

A sense of optimism infuses Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably.

Penguin Cafe - In Re Budd (Radio Edit)

小久保 隆 Takashi Kokubo 京都 満月の木陰 Kyoto Shadow Of The Full Moon 1993 Full Album

handpan loop#2

Cross over and turn
feel the spot don't let it burn
we all want we all yearn
be soft don't be stern

lullaby
was not supposed to make you cry
i sang the words i meant
i sang

Low - Lullaby

Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura (1986) alas; not mine.

Feet

Sleep

Devics-Red Morning

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

Cibelle - Green Grass

Stream

Healing Collection: Quiet Comfort

The Blue Planet Seen Far Away

from the album "Stories", the 1st acoustic solo vibraphone album by Masayoshi Fujita

"Snow Storm"
A knight on a horse runs through the snow storm.  While on his way, he hears the voice of the spirit of the snow storm.

www.flau.jp/releases/31.html

Snow Storm

Watering a Flower

Haruomi Hosono - Muji Original BGM

Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese vibraphonist and composer based in Berlin. Masayoshi first learned how to play the drums, followed by extensive vibraphone training to craft and play his own compositions.

Determined not to stick to traditional vibraphone styles or techniques and theory of composition, he seeks his own sound of vibraphone and new possibility of it. Masayoshi also prepares his instrument with strings of bead, strips of foil and similar objects. The resulting new sounds, akin to distortions, help to expand the vibraphone spectrum without eroding the instrument’s intrinsic character or even abandoning it altogether.

Inspired by the silence and deepness of the fog, the mountains and the gravity within, His music evokes images, atmospheres, sceneries and stories in the listener, the images that have accumulated in himself. At the same time he explores the unexplored beauty of the vibraphone, and pursues the charm of the instrumentation 
and the music itself.

Under his electronic solo project alias, el fog, Masayoshi combines the vibraphone and analogue/digital electronic sound and textured noises using divers experimental methods.

His recent collaboration with German electronic musician Jan Jelinek received a lot of attention from experimental music fans around the world
 
Releases:
"Apologues" / Masayoshi Fujita (Erased Tapes 2015)
"Stories" / Masayoshi Fujita (Flau 2013)
"Schaum" / Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (Faitiche 2016)
"Do you know Otahiti?" / Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek (Faitiche 2013)
"Bird, Lake, Objects" / Masayoshi Fujita and Jan Jelinek (Faitiche 2010)
"Rebuilding Vibes" / el fog, (Flau 2009)
"Reverberate Slowly" / el fog (Moteer 2007)

http://masayoshifujita.com/
http://www.erasedtapes.com
http://www.flau.jp
http://www.faitiche.de

Snow Storm

Masayoshi Fujita / el fog

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