Hiroshi Yoshimura

𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 = 𝙋𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙨 𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, 𝙃𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞 𝙔𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚 “𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣”—𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨—𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙙!

The most elusive and ultimate album in Japanese ambient/environmental music history. Hiroshi Yoshimura's signature leaf-vein ambient.
Released in 1986, the height of Japan's economic bubble. Does the “Green” embedded in the title and jacket artwork refer to “environmental music”—the spatial greening achieved through sound—a concept still relevant in 2020? Or is it mere nostalgia? This reissue phenomenon embraces both.
From the inorganic, minimal leaf-vein ambient of the first half, to the sounds in the gaps between sounds. The unique lyricism and landscapes that emerge in the latter half, which can only be described as distinctly Japanese, bring tears.

One also senses the primal landscape of tendencies found in Japanese techno/trackmakers. Even within New Age, the differences in context and sound compared to the West Coast counterculture-influenced works of Carlos Niño, Matthew David, and others on LEAVING RECORDS are fascinating.