Program Description
An uninterrupted listening session of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s album Flora through the radiant clarity of the Ojas sound system.
In recent years, Flora has been embraced by critics, audiophile collectors, and adventurous music lovers as a crucial recording from Japan’s environmental, ambient sound of the late '70s and ‘80s. Completed in 1987 and finally released in 2006, sadly three years after Yoshimura’s passing, Flora—offers an exquisite entry-point into the work of an under-appreciated minimalist composer, and the sonic community he represented.
Mono Space will feature the stellar 2024 reissue of Flora, a remastered double LP by Light in the Attic’s Temporal Drift label, released in cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate.
About Hiroshi Yoshimura
Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003) was a pioneering Japanese musician and composer. Known for his ethereal soundscapes fusing the sounds of nature, Yoshimura was integral to the development of Japan’s minimalist ambient genre known as environmental music (kankyō ongaku).
Hiroshi Yoshimura, photo courtesy Force Field PR
“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
Album Tracklist & Credits
Side A
Over The Clover
Flora
Side B
Asagao
Ojigisou
Maple Syrup Factory
Side C
Adelaide
Wind Echo
Trick Tree
Side D
Kasumi
Silence
Satie On The Grass
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
Original cover design by Takuu tuore Inc.
Reissue produced by Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
Remastered by John Baldwin
Reissue layout and design by Tiffanie Tran
Liner Notes by Junichi Konuma
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