Yoshimura, Hiroshi

Music From Nine Post Cards (black)

Available again! Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, 'Music For Nine Post Cards' 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 background music in the prior Japanese "BGM" sense of the word, but "environmental music", the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyo ongaku given to Brian Eno's "ambient" music when it arrived in late '70s Japan.

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