05 Patrick Kelleher and his Cold Dead Hands - Broken Up Now

Terry Riley - Rainbow In Cologne2

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

started as a study, then added my own sections and put it into a live set. RIP hiroshi yoshimura.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2FR3AZJTM

吉村弘 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Over The Clover (2017, Melos Han-Tani Edit)

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

Re-mastered and issued by Incidental Music on vinyl for the first time ever. Ambienti Coassiali's Vol. 1 is a missing link in the world of 1980's Italian electronic music. A parallel project of Capricorni Pneumatici, Vol. 1 was conceived in and around Milan in the late '80s and released only on an incredibly limited cassette. Recorded solely with a Yamaha DX7 and two track Revox A77 tape machine, Vol. 1 is composed of 6 "rooms" (stanze), each their own world of meditative & ethereal FM synthesis. 
Vol. 1 also features collaborative contributions by Riccardo Sinigaglia.

Ambienti Coassiali - Room 5

Ryusuke Seto - Dream Land (1979)

Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

Learn more: https://smarturl.it/frkwys14

©2018 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue

Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

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"

from the "Spirit Channels" CS (NNF355)
Not Not Fun / 2018

CHANNEL SURF:
dravier.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-channels
midheaven.com/item/spirit-channels-by-dravier

Dravier "Canopy"

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

Taken from the new album "Recording"

Out now: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recording

Released January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by RedRedPaw 
Photos by Michael Upton

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

2024: working on angeline era and its OST

(12/2022) most of my music is now on Spotify!
News (04/2022) - Sephonie came out! As did the OST: https://htch.bandcamp.com/album/sephonie-original-soundtrack

on my process: https://melodicambient.neocities.org/posts/2021-05-08-Writing%20Music.html
some new music can be found at my game studio's youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHkAE4NeLqeNfskowzycww

Director of Analgesic Productions game studio. Composer/Programmer/Writer/Designer/etc. Prev. Chicago, now Tokyo. I'm usually around at my studio's fan Discord: https://discord.com/invite/analgesic 

Sephonie (2022 - OST, game)
Anodyne (2019 - OST, game)
All Our Asias (2018 - OST, Game)
Even the Ocean (2016, OST, Game)
Perfect OST (2016, OST to fictional game)
Model Minority No More (2015, Standalone Music)
Anodyne 1 (2013, OST, Game)

Other soundclouds (old name)
Old: @sean_archive_001 
field recordings : @sean_ambiences

equipment: Able Town Live and sometimes soundfonts

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