Flora, the underrated 2006 release from Japanese musician and composer Hiroshi Yoshimura is to be reissued for the first time (20th March).
Although Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003) is considered a pioneer of ambient music in Japan, he only became more widely known outside of Japan following his death (in 2003 from cancer) and the reissue of ‘Music For Nine Post Cards‘ in 2017. His music also featured in Light in the Attic’s Grammy nominated 2019 compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990.
Flora was originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003 and is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to his 1986 works Green and Surround. Due for release on Temporal Drift, this is 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 who describes the album:
“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.”
Flora (20th March 2025) Temporal Drift
Bandcamp: https://hiroshi-yoshimura.bandcamp.com/track/over-the-clover