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Artist
Hiroshi Yoshimura
ReleaseProduct
Flora
Label
Temporal Drift
Catalogue Number
DRFT14
Release Date
March 21, 2025

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  • First ever official reissue.
  • Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate.
  • Liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma.
  • Remastered from original sources by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin.
  • Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran.

Press Release

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

Announcing the worldwide reissue of Flora, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s underrated work originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003.

Flora is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to Hiroshi Yoshimura’s acclaimed 1986 works Green and Surround, wherein Yoshimura continues to play with the ambience of sound and the sound of ambience, underscoring his mastery in the field of environmental music. Listening to Flora is like taking a stroll in a park, absorbing the colors and textures of the natural environment—flowers, insects, the swaying of the leaves—as Yoshimura often did at his beloved Edo-era park near his home in Tokyo. As Junichi Konuma describes in his liner notes, Yoshimura’s music “only begins to emerge as it exists at the intersection of passive and active.” Yoshimura's approach to sound and melody invites the listener to hear the intricacies of the music with intent, while simultaneously allowing the aural textures to exist as part of the background of our everyday life.

Track List

  1. Over The Clover オーバー·ザ·クローバー 06:40
  2. Flora フローラ
  3. Asagao アサガオ
  4. Ojigisou オジギソウ
  5. Maple Syrup Factory メイプル·シロップ·ファクトリー
  6. Adelaide アデレード
  7. Wind Echo ウィンド·エコー
  8. Trick Tree トリック·ツリー
  9. Kasumi カスミ
  10. Silence サイレンス
  11. Satie On The Grass サティ·オン·ザ·グラス

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