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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

Put all of the albums Hiroshi Yoshimura made on YouTube, the link is at the end of this long description for Hiroshi Yoshimura.
Rip Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2004 due to skin cancer, this is from what I've read was his final album ever created and its my personally favorite right behind wet land. Thank you Hiroshi Yoshimura without you I'm not sure if I could've made it through life and I applaud you for being the best and my favorite artist in the world. Your music shall live on forever goodbye.
Another final note I might post all of his songs or find them all on SoundCloud then make it into one giant playlist and put them in order of release I already did it on YouTube so if you wanna take a listen then just click the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLul1oB_lFROiU38lp49SuarPKVvki8Ux1

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Four Post Cards

Great Wind

Breeze

Arabesque 2

Higgledy-piggledy

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) - "Water Copy" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

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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 (吉村弘) - Flora 1987

Haruomi Hosono - To The Air

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River

Healing Collection: Quiet Comfort

Forest Falling Night

improvised piece with dazed outro

2019's summer of sadness

mother's garden

Alva Noto - Transform - m 07

anbb (Alva Noto és Blixa Bargeld) - Fall

anbb (Alva Noto és Blixa Bargeld) - I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground

Das New Fall Festival zeigt Popmusik an ungewohnten Orten – in klassischen Konzertsälen. Das Programm ist ein Mix aus internationalen Stars und Geheimtipps und richtet sich an Musikliebhaber aller Altersgruppen. Der Termin für die mittlerweile vierte Auflage des New Fall Festivals steht bereits: 09. bis 12. Oktober 2014, wieder in der Tonhalle, im Robert-Schumann-Saal und im Da-Vinci-Saal der Hotel Nikko. Bei der diesjährigen Ausgabe werden als neue Locations die Johanneskirche, das Tanzhaus NRW und der Bachsaal hinzukommen und noch mehr Acts präsentieren.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River

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