{"product_id":"850054840219","title":"Yoshimura, Hiroshi \"Flora\" [Sky Blue Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlora is an album that is listened to perpetually, \u003cbr\u003ePassed on from one listener to another, \u003cbr\u003eAnd the charm of the sound- and music-loving figure  \u003cbr\u003eknown as Hiroshi Yoshimura, \u003cbr\u003eJust might come drifting through. \u003cbr\u003eLike the scent of a small flower. \u003cbr\u003e—Junichi Konuma \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnouncing 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlora 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.”\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis reissue marks the first time the album will be available on vinyl (2LP, 45 rpm) and cassette, and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma and remastered audio by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"---","offers":[{"title":"VINYL","offer_id":45041500815535,"sku":"850054840219","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/8833\/2463\/files\/YOSHIMURA.jpg?v=1743807579","url":"https:\/\/endofanear.sbs\/products\/850054840219","provider":"End Of An Ear","version":"1.0","type":"link"}