Hiroshi Yoshimura "GREEN" (1986)

Nowadays, there&#x27;s been a growing trend toward the reevaluation of Japanese 80s ambient/new age musicians. This playlist compiles not only them but also electronica/drone artists in recent years.

Japanese Ambient/New Age/Kankyo Ongaku (環境音楽) on Spotify

Nowadays, there's been a growing trend toward the reevaluation of Japanese 80s ambient/new age musicians. This playlist compiles not only them but also electronica/drone artists in recent years.

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はるか なかむら

Catalog: INNER164
Format: Tape Cassette // Digital // Streaming

Transparent Blue Tapes // 75 copies worldwide

Music for the Ninth Silence the first full-length ambient album by TOMC, is a work that speaks of "uncategorizable emotions and silence”, comparing them to the metropolis. The duration of all the tracks is unified at 4 minutes and 33 seconds, and each track is given a name based on psychologist Carl Jung's eight typologies and the places in Tokyo that TOMC recalls.

All of the music is produced with TOMC's electronic piano playing, with a nod to Hiroshi Yoshimura, Erik Satie and Steve Reich, and without sampling from existing music. The fusion of tones reminiscent of 1980s Japanese ambient / new age music and the three-dimensional sound textures of contemporary ASMR culture, free from the constraints of the grid, is a reflection of his vision of Tokyo.

The vibrant Japan of the 1980s is considered by many young Japanese people to be a fantasy far removed from the present day. On the other hand, much of the culture and urban landscape of modern Japan undeniably originates from the 1980s. TOMC, who lives in Tokyo, the largest city in Japan today, has been thinking about the "uncategorizable emotions and silence" that suddenly come to the minds of people living in the city, which is faced with various problems unique to developed countries and sometimes has to embrace a sense of stagnation, and depicted them in this album.

TOMC sees that ambient and new age music is not a form of "escapism" but an art form to connect the self with reality. When people who are in the midst of "uncategorizable emotions and silence" (i.e., you in someday) come into contact with the tracks and reclaim themselves, this album will be truly completed.

 This stage is on-going today, and is full of questions: What does it means to be oneself? What assumptions are accurate? What’s been an act all along? It’s a period of her life, and on the album, that’s deconstructive and lighter in tone. In its entirety, Yesterday & Tomorrow is deeply personal, but there’s a message for all of us to internalize: no matter how dark things get, there’s always hope. Even when you think it’s completely out of reach.

https://fanlink.to/ninthsilence

Music for the Ninth Silence

LIMITED EDITION TAPE

TOMC - Introverted Feeling (Nihonbashi)

カノン - Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura
from 12 & 1SONG

カノン - Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura

"prayer" and "insincere love" both tracks from the album "12 & 1 SONG" (KI-008R, KITCHEN. LABEL)

Available via KITCHEN. LABEL 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/ki008r-reissue-janis-crunch-haruka-nakamura-12-1-song

Available on iTunes 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/12-1-song/id643452001?uo=4

Janis Cruch & haruka nakamura - prayer, insincere love (12 & 1 SONG, 2011)

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SINK series "SNK001"

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SNK001 (teaser edit)

FLOAT series "FLT001"

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FLT001 (teaser edit)

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Date : 02.02.19 
Map Point : eilean 81 
Color : white/grey 
Season : winter 
Duration : 44.17 mn 
Edition : limited to 130 copies 

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Kenji Kihara is a musician based in Hayama, in Japan, a place surrounded by nature near to the sea and mountains.  
His electronic and ambient works are truly inspired by the sound of nature. 

www.sphontik.com 
www.sphontik.bandcamp.com/music 

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クレジット
2019年2月2日リリース 

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All sounds by Kenji Kihara, 
mixed and recorded between 2016 and 2017 at Hayama in Japan. 

Artwork by Matthias Heiderich 
Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo 
Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo 
Design by Rémi Verdier 

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AmbientWorks

AmbientWorks #001

The Horizon

12 &amp; 1 SONG (2011) by Janis Crunch &amp; haruka nakamura.

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Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura - nuit

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Music for Commercials

Seiko 2

Pre order: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/5784/satoshi-makoto/cz-5000-sounds-sequences 

We write to you with the conclusions of our investigation into the synthesized audio transmissions picked up by the deep space telescope at regular intervals since 1986. The source was traced to two brothers in Kawasaki, Japan, who identified themselves as Satoshi and Makoto. When we raided the building, they were huddled around a synthesizer manufactured by the Casio Corporation, model number CZ-5000.

In their archives we discovered a wealth of colourful and ear-pleasing material created entirely using this music-making device in the early 1990s. We asked them to provide copies so that we could make these compositions available to the public for the first time. They handed us a compact disc that bore the handwritten code “ST006”.

CZ-5000 Sounds & Sequences

That's All

Music for Nine Post Cards

Ice Copy

The Walkmen's new album "Heaven" will be in stores May 29 on Fat Possum.

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www.thewalkmen.com

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The Walkmen - "We Can't Be Beat"

The Walkmen's new album "Heaven" is in stores May 29.

Pre-Order the album from iTunes: 
http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/heaven/id515362837

Pre-Order the CD and Vinyl from Fat Possum:
http://fatpossum.com/products/heaven

The Walkmen - Heaven (radio edit)

Lonerism

Apocalypse Dreams

Elephant

From the album "A LITTLE FABLE" (KI-007, KITCHEN. LABEL)

Available via KITCHEN. LABEL 
http://www.kitchen-label.com/catalogue/ki007-aspidistrafly-a-little-fable

ASPIDISTRAFLY - GENSEI feat. Janis Crunch (A LITTLE FABLE, 2011)

WRWTFWW Records is honored to announce the much anticipated reissue of Satoshi Ashikawa’s undeniable classic of Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism, Still Way (Wave Notation 2). The album, available on vinyl (first time since 1982) and digipack CD (with one bonus track), comes with a cover artwork by Hiroshi Yoshimura and liner notes by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa himself, and Irish producer Gareth Quinn Redmond (whose Still Way-inspired album Laistigh den Ghleo is being released simultaneously on WRWTFWW).

Initially released in 1982 as part of the Wave Notation series*, Still Way is, without a doubt, a seminal Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism album, often mentioned alongside Midori Takada’s Through Looking Glass and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green as one of the genre’s most important pieces.

"Like the moment of stillness, after the wind passes through the garden, when the rain stops for a brief second…" Notably inspired by Erik Satie’s Furniture Music and Brian Eno’s ambient work, Satoshi Ashikawa aimed to compose music "intended to be listened to in a casual manner, as a musical landscape or a sound object…not something that would stimulate listeners but music that should drift like smoke and become part of the environment."

The result is simply phenomenal, subtle minimalism and emotional elegance exquisitely orchestrated by Satoshi Ishikawa and his team consisting of his wife Masami Ashikawa (on flute), Midori Takada (on vibraphone), Yuko Utsumi (on harp), Tomoko Sono (on piano), and Junko Arase (on vibraphone).

In conjunction with Still Way, WRWTFWW is releasing Laistigh den Ghleo, a companion album by Irish ambient/minimalist composer Gareth Quinn Redmond, inspired by Ashikawa’s approach.

*The Wave Notation series also includes Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Music For Nine Postcards album.

芦川聡 Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Way (Wave Notation 2) [TRAILER - WRWTFWW030]

ARTIST：TOMC
TITLE：Lunar Maria
CATALOG：PG048
RELEASE DATE：2020年1月16日
FORMAT：Digital/Streaming
LABEL：PURRE GOOHN

—Track Lists—
01　Moby Dick
02　Moon Palace
03　No One Belongs Here More Than You
04　Moby Dick (Revisited)

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yoshinori takezawa