Bleep

Following the comprehensive release Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 on Light In The Attic, Empire Of Signs offer a wider catalogue of blissful atmospherics from comp highlight Inoyama Land aka Makoto Inoue and Yasushi Yamashita. Much like its spiritual predecessor, Commissions: 1977-2000 takes a retrospective gaze back at rare and lesser known works by geniuses of ambient music, many of which being made available outside of Japan for the first time. Once purely situated within the context of Tokyo’s environmental music business boom, Inoue and Yamashita’s patient sensibilities sound utterly modern to the ear, constituting so much more than a grey area between art and commerce.