Flora

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Label: Temporal Drift
Release Date: 21st March

This record sounds like the mid-century furniture that doesn't display the price on the website or in the shop. This 1987 ambient classic gets it's first ever vinyl reissue courtesy of the meticulous custodians at Temporal Drift. 

- 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 John Baldwin.
- First time on vinyl, cassette, and streaming
- 2xLP vinyl housed in gatefold jacket
- Discs cut at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality
- Vinyl pressed at Optimal Media (Germany)

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.

Tracks:

Over The Clover; Flora; Asagao; Ojigisou; Maple Syrup Factory; Adelaide; Wind Echo; Trick Tree; Kasumi; Silence; Satie On The Grass