Flora
by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Tristan Louth-Robins
Tristan Louth-Robins
I feel that this is one of Yoshimura's more 'orchestral' albums with more moving parts at play than usual. But the remarkable economy and space is there. This is such a beautiful album which genuinely merits replays to fully appreciate its compositions and sequencing. Incidentally, Adelaide (in South Australia) is my hometown and now I'm obsessed by the idea of Yoshimura walking around here sometime in the 1980s.
Favorite track: Adelaide アデレード.
EeveeEuphoria
EeveeEuphoria
CD just arrived today, I've enjoyed this album before but there were no official means to own it without paying ludicrous prices. It's nice to see Yoshimura's back catalog get released, this is one of my favorites of his.
geosynchronous field studies
geosynchronous field studies
an exploration into the perpetuity of being, how else may one live,
if not over the clover?
if not over the clover?
mineralskypuzzle
mineralskypuzzle
my most anticipated release of this year. I can't wait
phhhhhh
rmutter
Ashkin Damavandi
Valex
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Marc McDonald
Gregor Buchkremer
Anvit Srivastav
Astin
edula
Brook Shelley
Fredric
Chris V.
calecrunchy
iloveyoudrops
liisring
Real Soon
Z
sciencefiction
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hauntghost
Carl Hoffmann
newd
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echorrhea
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Slow Pilgrim
ScreechLouder
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Kikazaru 🙉
midnight_zen
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Turtle Dream
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Matthew Sheppard
JonBrown
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Justin Martinez
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Mike Ray
McSurley
Kava
Tirthika
Charles
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album++ FIRST PRESSING IS SOLD OUT - REPRESS DUE IN MAY - ORDERS WILL BE PROCESSED IN THE ORDER THEY WERE RECEIVED ++
* First ever official reissue
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
* Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
* First time on vinyl
* 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
* Lacquers cut by John Baldwin at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
* Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
Includes unlimited streaming of Flora via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.shipping out on or around May 30, 2025Purchasable with gift card$34 USD or more
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Cassette + Digital Album* First ever official reissue
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
* First time on cassette
Includes unlimited streaming of Flora via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 3 daysPurchasable with gift card$13 USD or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album* First ever official reissue
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
* Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
* CD Digipak with OBI card and booklet
Includes unlimited streaming of Flora via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.ships out within 3 daysPurchasable with gift card$15 USD or more
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift cardDownload available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
$10 USD or more
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Limited Edition "Evening Primrose" 2LP Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album* Temporal Drift Bandcamp Exclusive
* First ever official reissue
* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
* Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma
* Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin
* First time on vinyl
* 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
* Lacquers cut by John Baldwin at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
* Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)
* MAX TWO COPIES PER PERSON
Includes unlimited streaming of Flora via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.Sold Out
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Flora フローラ
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Asagao アサガオ
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Ojigisou オジギソウ
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Adelaide アデレード
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Wind Echo ウィンド·エコー
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Trick Tree トリック·ツリー
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Kasumi カスミ
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Silence サイレンス
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about
Flora is an album that is listened to perpetually,
Passed on from one listener to another,
And the charm of the sound- and music-loving figure
known as Hiroshi Yoshimura,
Just might come drifting through.
Like the scent of a small flower.
—Junichi Konuma
Announcing the worldwide reissue of Flora, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s underrated work originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003.
Flora is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s acclaimed 1986 works Green and Surround, wherein Yoshimura continues to play with the ambience of sound and the sound of ambience, underscoring his mastery in the field of environmental music. Listening to Flora is like taking a stroll in a park, absorbing the colors and textures of the natural environment—flowers, insects, the swaying of the leaves—as Yoshimura often did at his beloved Edo-era park near his home in Tokyo. As Junichi Konuma describes in his liner notes, Yoshimura’s music “only begins to emerge as it exists at the intersection of passive and active.” Yoshimura's approach to sound and melody invites the listener to hear the intricacies of the music with intent, while simultaneously allowing the aural textures to exist as part of the background of our everyday life.
This reissue marks the first time the album will be available on vinyl (2LP, 45 rpm) and cassette, and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma and remastered audio by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran.
Vinyl, CD, Cassette, and Digital pre-orders are now open. In addition to black vinyl, exclusive color vinyl variants are available from Temporal Drift’s Bandcamp ("Evening Primrose"), Light In The Attic ("Sky"), Disk Union ("Asagao"), HHV ("Daisy"), and Liminal Music ("Clover"). Street date is the first day of spring: March 20, 2025.
Passed on from one listener to another,
And the charm of the sound- and music-loving figure
known as Hiroshi Yoshimura,
Just might come drifting through.
Like the scent of a small flower.
—Junichi Konuma
Announcing the worldwide reissue of Flora, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s underrated work originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003.
Flora is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s acclaimed 1986 works Green and Surround, wherein Yoshimura continues to play with the ambience of sound and the sound of ambience, underscoring his mastery in the field of environmental music. Listening to Flora is like taking a stroll in a park, absorbing the colors and textures of the natural environment—flowers, insects, the swaying of the leaves—as Yoshimura often did at his beloved Edo-era park near his home in Tokyo. As Junichi Konuma describes in his liner notes, Yoshimura’s music “only begins to emerge as it exists at the intersection of passive and active.” Yoshimura's approach to sound and melody invites the listener to hear the intricacies of the music with intent, while simultaneously allowing the aural textures to exist as part of the background of our everyday life.
This reissue marks the first time the album will be available on vinyl (2LP, 45 rpm) and cassette, and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma and remastered audio by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran.
Vinyl, CD, Cassette, and Digital pre-orders are now open. In addition to black vinyl, exclusive color vinyl variants are available from Temporal Drift’s Bandcamp ("Evening Primrose"), Light In The Attic ("Sky"), Disk Union ("Asagao"), HHV ("Daisy"), and Liminal Music ("Clover"). Street date is the first day of spring: March 20, 2025.
credits
released March 20, 2025
All composed and performed by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Photos by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Recorded by Hiroshi Yoshimura at Hiroo 806 Studio, 1987
Produced for release by Yasushi Takamatsu & Tamiko Hohda
Original art direction by gift_lab (Toshikazu Goto & Fumiko Ikeda)
Original cover design by Takuu tuore Inc. (Masahito Suda)
Reissue produced by Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
Remastered by John Baldwin
Reissue layout and design by Tiffanie Tran
Liner notes by Junichi Konuma
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
DRFT14 ℗2025 NUVOLA/YOKO YOSHIMURA ©2025 TEMPORAL DRIFT ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2006 AS PRY-0071 BY PREM Promotion
All composed and performed by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Photos by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Recorded by Hiroshi Yoshimura at Hiroo 806 Studio, 1987
Produced for release by Yasushi Takamatsu & Tamiko Hohda
Original art direction by gift_lab (Toshikazu Goto & Fumiko Ikeda)
Original cover design by Takuu tuore Inc. (Masahito Suda)
Reissue produced by Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
Remastered by John Baldwin
Reissue layout and design by Tiffanie Tran
Liner notes by Junichi Konuma
Special thanks to Yoko Yoshimura, Tsutomu Mizusawa, Saki Nagato
DRFT14 ℗2025 NUVOLA/YOKO YOSHIMURA ©2025 TEMPORAL DRIFT ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2006 AS PRY-0071 BY PREM Promotion
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Hiroshi Yoshimura Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003), unknown outside Japan in his lifetime, has emerged as a celebrated pioneer of ambient music. His recognition surged with the 2017 reissue of Music For Nine Post Cards and his inclusion on the Grammy-nominated Kankyō Ongaku. Reissues of GREEN and SURROUND, with a growing internet following, have sparked renewed interest in his catalog. ... more
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Oct 2023
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