Hiroshi Yoshimura - Flora

Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic. FLORA was originally recorded and completed in 1987, and remained unreleased until 2006, nearly three years after Yoshimura’s passing in 2003. The album is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to his 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. Yoshimura’s other recorded works include Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and Pier & Loft (1983), commissioned as accompaniment to a contemporary fashion show.

Format: 2LP vinyl, 45 rpm; remastered by John Baldwin; liner notes by Junichi Konuma
Label: Temporal Drift
Catalogue number: DRFT14

Tracklist

1. Over the Clover
2. Flora
3. Asagao
4. Ojigisou
5. Maple Syrup Factory
6. Adelaide
7. Wind Echo
8. Trick Tree
9. Kasumi
10. Silence
11. Satie on the Grass