Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora (2025 Remaster)

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 colours 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.

This 2LP vinyl edition was produced by Temporal Drift in 2025. Cut at 45RPM. 

TRACKLISTING:

1. Over The Clover オーバー·ザ·クローバー 
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