Bleep

Light In The Attic begin their Water Copy series, a run focussing on the works of late Japanese ambient composer Hiroshi Yoshimura, with a new edition of Yoshimura’s 1986 LP Green. Previously near-impossible to get hold of, Green is a glorious collection that will put a smile on the face of even the most hard-bitten listener. There is plenty of new age music to Yoshimura’s sound, while the pulse and momentum of tracks like ‘Creek’ and ‘Feel’ may owe a debt to NYC minimalism. This is a much livelier collection than the work of Western ambient artists like Brian Eno, and given the high esteem in which Yoshimura is held it’s not hard to see how his influence would have spread out from Green.