thats crazy because without seeing this comment i was beginning to see the world as what it is - continuous and open and far, and i decided to put this on and it really supported this belief im in shock and awe at how precise he was perfect wow
That is true for music in general. It's crazy how the world changes depending on what songs are being played, I love it. I get to dictate it. And honestly, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music just captures nature and nostalgia so perfectly. I feel like I'm watching Castle in the Sky at 8 years old sat on my bed.
From the wikipedia articla on Hiroshi Yoshimura: "In 2017, Yoshimura, as well as other ambient Japanese musicians, received a resurgence due to the UA-cam algorithm." Thanks again, algorithm.
It's been seriously fucked up for me. Most of the time it's 95% trash and no matter how much I dislike videos and hit don't recommend channel the bullshit keeps coming back.
Hiroshi Yoshimura was a Japanese composer and sound designer. He is considered a pioneer in ambient, environmental, and new age music. Born in Yokohama in 1940, he studied music as a child -- beginning piano studies at age five during the final year of the Second World War. He fell under the influence of various sound artists during the late '50s, including composers Toru Takemitsu and John Cage. In 1964 he graduated from Waseda School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II under the creative spell of the Fluxus movement and the work of Harry Partch and Erik Satie. Yoshimura worked on integrating environmental music that combined graphic and sound design. He performed visual poetry, and worked on sound design construction for TOA, the storied Japanese manufacturer of amplifiers, signal processors, mixers, microphones, and speakers while working on his own art in his spare time. In 1972 he started the computer music group Anonyme. He fell under the spell of Brian Eno's ambient music during the 1970s, because it mirrored his own core sonic and atmospheric discoveries. His iconic debut album, Music for Nine Postcards, was released in 1982 on Sound Process. It was originally recorded at home on Fender Rhodes and an analog synthesizer as a demo to be played in the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Produced by Satoshi Ashikawa, it was later subtitled Wave Notations 1 and released as the first of the historic but short-lived series -- the producer's Still Way (Wave Notation 2) was the other one. Yoshimura composed and designed sound for several independent cinema projects as well. Pier & Loft, released on Fukusei Gijutsu Kohboh in 1983, offered more contrasting sounds from experimental classical, ambient, and new age music. Arriving in 1984, A-I-R (Air In Resort) worked across both minimalist and new age genres, before Yoshimura gave way to the latter with Green in 1986. Later the same year he released Soundscape 1: Surround, a work of complete but gentle abstraction and precise sonic design. Yoshimura shifted to new classical music for 1988's Static, with assistance from pianist Satuki Shibano. During his recording career, the composer joined the the engineering faculty at Chiba University, and also taught part-time in the industrial design department. He also served as an adjunct professor at Kunitachi College of Music Design. His focus was universal access to sound design; he convinced the school to sponsor public participation in workshops and sonic experiments at museums and galleries nationally. He would often use his students in his performances. He resumed recording with 1993's Wet Land, which walked the line between ambient, classical, and new age musics. A year later he released Face Music, an album commissioned by Shu Uemura Make Up School that mixed his own modern classical compositions in seamless beat-driven juxtaposition with works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Caccini. Yoshimura had become fascinated by global club culture, especially the downtempo music created for chillout rooms. Arriving in 1998, Quiet Forest, the final album released during his lifetime, employed everything from field recordings of nature and city streets to downtempo beats, ambient soundscapes, left-field abstraction, and classical schemas. Yoshimura continued to teach and accept commissions, making environmental music for runway shows, train stations, and prefab houses. He was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1999 and battled with the disease until it claimed his life in 2003. He continued working until the very end. Four Postcards, recorded during the final year of his life, was issued by Nuvola. In 2005, the label issued Soft Wave for Automatic Music Box, comprising three late but completed long-form works. In 2006, Prem Promotion issued Flora - 1987, a complete album recorded between Green and Static but unreleased at the time. Music for Nine Postcards was reissued in North America for the first time as the debut release by Empire of Signs, a label run by Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks and Maxwell August Croy of the Root Strata label. They worked with Yoshimura's widow, Yoko Yoshimura, on the reissue; it featured reproductions of the original art and liner notes, as well as new writings from the producers and Ms. Yoshimura. Distributed by Light in the Attic, the album was marketed as a stand-alone or bundled with a reissue of Pier & Loft. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi Found this description on spotify
Thank you !!!! ❣️🌼. For all the Info, I am from South America and discovered Japanese Ambient music, during the lockdown,,I love it so much I can say is my Favorite!!😊 and it helps connect with the Oneness of life ...🙏🏻
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this .....I'm sitting here relaxing just searching for some new sounds to fill my head with ....as much as I'm missing live music right now this has just filled the gap ...and you just topped it off with that lovely tribute to a great man .....thank you very much ....♥️♥️♥️👊
no problem guys, glad i could share this information! if you want to know more, check out his wikipedia. i also backed it up on wayback machine and made a few edits myself, so hopefully this information will not get lost
My senior year of high school was pretty rough. I'd listen to this every day during my morning commute on the bus and just look out the window. It really brought me peace when I felt like everything and everyone was fading away. It made me feel lonely, but the album gave me a stoic freedom with my loneliness. Very reflective
Interesting comment Owen. 'Stoic freedom' I like it. I've often clicked on songs (or albums) that makes me fell melancholy, because of a combination of nostalgia or perhaps being reminded of a period of my life that was blue/dark but I was able to escaped from via the very tune I am listening to yet again. I always looking for an explanation for being drawn to going back. Doesn't bother me much, but it's an eerie feeling.
I've had this exact same experience with another album. Hold your Colour by Pendulum, especially the track Still Grey at the end had such alien, lonely, yet calming sounds that I found myself listening to it nearly every day when I was in high school. It suited the dreary, dark 5:30am-ish mood well and gave me a reprieve from other people.
@Rippley Dang, yea high school did feel pretty lonely for me too, the couple good friends I had and a music artist named Mewmore got me through it though. Ever since I've become a Catholic this year ,I've felt less lonely because I have a group of fellow believers to talk to. I hope everything is better for you nowadays too. -
What an incredible piece of history and music. Its crazy how the internet has allowed so many people, including myself, to be hearing this for the first time. I imagine if I was an adult in 1993 and came across this in a music store, my mind would be blown.
It's war here in Ukraine. It's dark and cold outside. I am afraid to die and I am tired of living. But I was listening to this album for a couple of weeks ...and it reminds me what is there to live for. I love being in the woods.
you're a part of my life and i'm a part of yours, person scrolling through these comments. I was once where you are. You have so much to grow and experience with. Never lose sight of that beautiful future. I love you.
@@jessejamesainger3263 you are for this short moment, even if we never see each other again. I believe the internet is a powerful tool that makes a certain type of communication and experience possible, that wasn’t really possible ever before in all of human history. I feel a certain connectedness that’s hard for me to describe. Comments like my own have also helped me feel certain powerful and beautiful things in my past, so I was hoping in a way I could do that for someone else, and I like to think I did. I’m sorry you got so enraged by my comment. Just scroll by or leave a dislike if you disagree with it; no need to leave hateful comments on posts you were never obligated to read anyway. Your time alive is way more valuable than being used making other peoples’ lives intentionally harder. Ironically, the best part is that we could have never talked, or met, or knew the other existed in any capacity, save for a statistic like a worldwide population number if we hadn’t had this interaction online through this comments section. That’s part of why the internet is so cool. It’s okay if you forget about me or whatever, it’s probably natural. But this moment still happened, and for a brief while, we got to connect in some way. Whatever that way might be, even if not so pretty lol. Couldn’t have happened without the internet. You’ve just met one of the thousands of people right now that you never would have had the internet not been around.
@@meh3083You sound like you are in one of those cults that prey on the insecurities of weak minded people. Or maybe you're religious. If there's any difference.
@@jessejamesainger3263 That’s not a refutation to anything I said, that’s just an ad hominem and an opinion. You’re entitled to your opinion, but that doesn’t mean you need to be abrasive on the internet. It’s that simple. If you dislike it and it’s not harming anyone, then just scroll on and live your life.
Hello from Sydney, Australia. I've been working from home for a week because of the coronavirus. I think I've got enough liquor and toilet paper for the Duration.
TheLadyDiazepam i m italian and I live at home because it’s impossible to go out ( lockdown ) . I ve never been in Australia unfortunately how is living there?
This got me through many painfully severe panic attacks in recent months, many dark nights being soothed and calmed by this wonderful album. Now i'm recovering, I love it just as much.
@@superhamham Thank you very much for that kind thought. I have indeed had some better times, right now I am going through some more difficult times, just trying to ride it out with meditation, slowing down, taking things as they come. Warmest best wishes to you.
This reminds me of my childhood days.... when i was at home... my window faced the backyard of another building which has a tree.... and a street in front of that building. This street is a busy avenue. I would sit there with my palms holding my head high, gazing at the beauty of nature and city intertwined... during rainy days and nights...when the passing of traffic mimmicked the sounds of beach waves.... and the traffic lights reflected themselves upon the wet asphalt, which caused an array of lights throughout the entire avenue. I observed this from my high palace. Its a low income housing in bronx, ny. This sight caused a melody in my heart, and i laid down to look up at the ceiling in darkness as I reflected on the forthcoming days...how would i make a living in this big world?
His music reminds me of my 90s childhood in Matsuyama, Japan where I'm at this random exhibition at the local community centre/museum nearby. Sunny, quiet daytime visit and I liked the atmosphere. Nostalgia at its finest.
That's beautiful, i'm from Portland, Oregon U.S.A and it kind of makes me think of my own childhood as well, playing Nintendo games and roaming in the woods, catching tadpoles and swimming in the rivers!!!
@@lukebingus9432 Man I wish I had these kinds of chldhoods. So relaxed, and carefree... I live in Hong Kong so I don't get the kinds of experiences you describe but I do get to explore the big city, and all its quiet parts. Next time I'm on a walk I'm playing this for sure.
@@lukebingus9432 I’ve visited Portland. It’s so beautiful too. Super Nintendo, swimming in the river, following a leaf floating in the river until it’s gone, secretly looking after stray cats in the abandoned car...
This album is the perfect example of how texture in music can be so powerful. Not only is it melodically gorgeous, it also feels like a brain massage. Thanks for sharing.
I’m a pop musician from the city of Peshawar in Pakistan, I think Japanese artists have made brilliant music through out 80s and 90s in particular, this album is love .
I’ve been exploring Japanese ambient music a lot recently and I keep coming back to the first person I discovered: Hiroshi Yoshimura. This is no formulaic, air-brushed ‘new age’ muzak. This and his other albums are warm, positive, multi-layered, highly listenable gifts that he has left to us.
though I agree with your statement, I feel like this record is actually is most "formulaic" of his ambient ones. I find the textures and structures to be a bit more generic, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I love this album and I think it's great
I was introduced to Hiroshi Yoshimura's music by a Japanese friend around 20 years back when I was 22 . I loved it back then too but never heard this album ever ......this lockdown has got me somehow here and happy to be here with all you lovely people who enjoy this ❤️ amazing master piece created by Hiroshi ...........
Hiroshi Yoshimura was my companion when I got kicked off the world team for my sport and I was lost in the world. His calm reverence brought me profound peace and acceptance in the worst of times.
This is my favorite album ever. I can't explain why, but it goes beyond relaxing. I feel it reminds me of something I miss, long forgotten, something I yearn for. Hiroshi Yoshimura managed to impact me, even after so many years...
I came across this album during a period in my life when I felt lost and disappointed. I was close to giving up on music after years of trying to make it in the LA scene, while I was also dealing with the remnants of a failed relationship. I will never forget the first time I heard those opening chords of 'Wet Land', it was as if my heart could finally rest and start over. I realized music is beyond anything I could ever achieve, it is timeless and can only live in our hearts and minds, always has and always will. Thank you Hiroshi from all of us.
I remember walking in circles in a basketball field while listening to this album. I felt like I was walking in a really dark place, unaware of my surroundings. Just me and my thoughts. I really don't miss that part of my life...
I know you will find that peace again. It will be right where you always left it...in the Eternal Here and Now. Best wishes to you, friend. I love you.
just discovered this album and.... wow. This really is something special. It makes me feel as if am catching a glimpse into a spirited land far far away from this world.
The first song eponimously called 'Wet Land' is one of my favourite piece of music, period. This vaporous sound of smooth synth lost in warm reverberation is unbelievably soothing. I have lately been trying to create this sound with my synths. I'm getting close, but not quite yet. To everyone who enjoys this kind of melodies should (must, really) get a hold of the compilation called Kankyo Ongaku. It's been released by Light In The Attic last year. You can thank me later!
Hey Samuel, youve probably found this out by now but the main synth sounds is a Roland D50 preset called Soundtrack. Its lovely. Just incase you want to play with it
I can feel him reaching through time, it has taken me so long to get to right here, where our paths cross, him from beyond the grave, and me here with the mark he has left in the world.
it's incredible that I'm still here. In our living room couch, staring at the big veranda window in our house. It's just a cloudy morning, yet the light emitting across the room is blinding as the white curtains reflect it more. It's weird, the curtains usually sway and float, yet it's completely still, it barely breathes as it does. There's life outside, birds and insects making arbitrary sounds that sync for no one, but the it's natural calling.I am here, as I leave a trace. I am here, and there is life just in reach. With the songs that comfort me to serenity and then peace, just for a little while.
Listening for the first time and I fell like there was a cocoon of protective ocean waters forming and dancing around me. I felt like the streams inside my temple were dancing too.
Welcome aboard to the unique genius of yoshimura. I’ve been living with this music as my life soundtrack for 2 years since being often housebound by chronic illness and have found it is often the best part of my day
I don’t know what it is, but the only times I can really relax enough to meditate, is when I’m truly alone in the forest, or when I’m listening to this music.
This is the kinda stuff you listen to on it's own and people go - WTF are you listening to!??! Then it shows up in a video game or a movie, and people are like - "That scene was so amazing!" and don't even realize how much heavy lifting is coming from the music/sound.
Hiroshi Yoshimura's albums have been a companion of mine on 2 years worth of essays, all-nighters, and depressive episodes. His music is medicine for my soul and it is heartbreaking that he can't see the amount of joy and peace that he's brought random Internet people in the 21st century :(.
Perfect music to play Minecraft to. In an alternate universe, THIS is the Minecraft OST. Glad I found this! Every bit as enjoyable as the best of Brian Eno's work!
I think Wet Land is my favorite. It's that perfect mix of early 90s digital synths and environmental field recordings. And I discovered Yoshimura, et al over the past month or so while staying up dealing with anxiety and insomnia. I love the percolating sequences on Singing Stream most all
This music is like being in a state of dreaming. Yesterday night dream shown me my fear of losing my mom, after waking up crying i know i have to tell my mom i love her so much.
“Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing, i see all.''
Wet Land is like waking up on a cold winter morning. You're ten years old, hungry, and your mouth still feels clean from brushing your teeth last night. No one else is awake, so you walk quietly to the bathroom. Once you're done you return to your bed, buried beneath the covers as you grab your 3ds and load up Animal Crossing: New Leaf. You can smell the clean linen sheets beneath you. Everything is calm.
Once in a blue moon I let UA-cam auto play take the wheel for music direction. Never did I think it would provide me with something so beautiful. It blessed me with Hiroshi Yoshimura, and I am eternally grateful. His whole discography is the perfect compliment to any creative work. Thank you for uploading this, really. It's a lost gem.
I discovered his music about a year ago. His albums bring peace, a true artist. So many Japanese Ambient pioneers who were so talented and unknown now heard all over this world.
this music is so calming that its one of the few sounds that i can actually sleep to, or even daydream! its actually the first music i daydreamed to, i just close my eyes and start dreaming while i can awake anytime i want and the time goes by extrem slowly while doing that
So sublime - things aren't so great right now and this is really helping. So are the comments posted here; feels like being part of a gang of peaceful and thoughtful individuals.
I found this at the end of a rather difficult but learnfull trip, and it left me going to sleep with comfort, warmth and hope. Very beatiful and helpful for processing some new perspectives and insights.
Music is really a wonderful thing, music is also a wonderful existence, if the human world without music, the world will become very boring, it can be commercialized, it can also make people communicate without obstacles, it can also make people degenerate, but it can also make people improve their。 spirituality, in short, a thing will always have its advantages and disadvantages.
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
I just discovered Hiroshi Yoshimura and am enamored. I've listened to all of his albums now and think this might be my favorite of his. Wonderful, special music.
Every few years I discover another Audio Gem. I knew of Yoshimura, but never this album. It was a wonderful surprise to listen to his entire catalog and hear these treasures for the first time.
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"I will be happy if, when you enjoy this album, the surrounding scenery can be seen in a slightly different light." - *Hiroshi Yoshimura*
Mission succeed
He was God
thats crazy because without seeing this comment i was beginning to see the world as what it is - continuous and open and far, and i decided to put this on and it really supported this belief im in shock and awe at how precise he was perfect wow
Great elegance thanks from Ireland
That is true for music in general. It's crazy how the world changes depending on what songs are being played, I love it. I get to dictate it. And honestly, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music just captures nature and nostalgia so perfectly. I feel like I'm watching Castle in the Sky at 8 years old sat on my bed.
From the wikipedia articla on Hiroshi Yoshimura: "In 2017, Yoshimura, as well as other ambient Japanese musicians, received a resurgence due to the UA-cam algorithm."
Thanks again, algorithm.
It's been seriously fucked up for me. Most of the time it's 95% trash and no matter how much I dislike videos and hit don't recommend channel the bullshit keeps coming back.
These algorithms will always be a mystery to me...
Thalgorithm.
@@dizkko1808 more like arigatorithm
good guy algorithm
It'll all be okay. The Universe didn't let you come all this way for nothing.
So now GO GET IT
Thank you ❤🙏
My Adonai created the universe...
Well put, Mason. ❤
❤
Hiroshi Yoshimura was a Japanese composer and sound designer. He is considered a pioneer in ambient, environmental, and new age music. Born in Yokohama in 1940, he studied music as a child -- beginning piano studies at age five during the final year of the Second World War. He fell under the influence of various sound artists during the late '50s, including composers Toru Takemitsu and John Cage. In 1964 he graduated from Waseda School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II under the creative spell of the Fluxus movement and the work of Harry Partch and Erik Satie.
Yoshimura worked on integrating environmental music that combined graphic and sound design. He performed visual poetry, and worked on sound design construction for TOA, the storied Japanese manufacturer of amplifiers, signal processors, mixers, microphones, and speakers while working on his own art in his spare time. In 1972 he started the computer music group Anonyme. He fell under the spell of Brian Eno's ambient music during the 1970s, because it mirrored his own core sonic and atmospheric discoveries. His iconic debut album, Music for Nine Postcards, was released in 1982 on Sound Process. It was originally recorded at home on Fender Rhodes and an analog synthesizer as a demo to be played in the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Produced by Satoshi Ashikawa, it was later subtitled Wave Notations 1 and released as the first of the historic but short-lived series -- the producer's Still Way (Wave Notation 2) was the other one.
Yoshimura composed and designed sound for several independent cinema projects as well. Pier & Loft, released on Fukusei Gijutsu Kohboh in 1983, offered more contrasting sounds from experimental classical, ambient, and new age music. Arriving in 1984, A-I-R (Air In Resort) worked across both minimalist and new age genres, before Yoshimura gave way to the latter with Green in 1986. Later the same year he released Soundscape 1: Surround, a work of complete but gentle abstraction and precise sonic design. Yoshimura shifted to new classical music for 1988's Static, with assistance from pianist Satuki Shibano.
During his recording career, the composer joined the the engineering faculty at Chiba University, and also taught part-time in the industrial design department. He also served as an adjunct professor at Kunitachi College of Music Design. His focus was universal access to sound design; he convinced the school to sponsor public participation in workshops and sonic experiments at museums and galleries nationally. He would often use his students in his performances. He resumed recording with 1993's Wet Land, which walked the line between ambient, classical, and new age musics. A year later he released Face Music, an album commissioned by Shu Uemura Make Up School that mixed his own modern classical compositions in seamless beat-driven juxtaposition with works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Caccini.
Yoshimura had become fascinated by global club culture, especially the downtempo music created for chillout rooms. Arriving in 1998, Quiet Forest, the final album released during his lifetime, employed everything from field recordings of nature and city streets to downtempo beats, ambient soundscapes, left-field abstraction, and classical schemas. Yoshimura continued to teach and accept commissions, making environmental music for runway shows, train stations, and prefab houses. He was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1999 and battled with the disease until it claimed his life in 2003. He continued working until the very end.
Four Postcards, recorded during the final year of his life, was issued by Nuvola. In 2005, the label issued Soft Wave for Automatic Music Box, comprising three late but completed long-form works. In 2006, Prem Promotion issued Flora - 1987, a complete album recorded between Green and Static but unreleased at the time. Music for Nine Postcards was reissued in North America for the first time as the debut release by Empire of Signs, a label run by Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks and Maxwell August Croy of the Root Strata label. They worked with Yoshimura's widow, Yoko Yoshimura, on the reissue; it featured reproductions of the original art and liner notes, as well as new writings from the producers and Ms. Yoshimura. Distributed by Light in the Attic, the album was marketed as a stand-alone or bundled with a reissue of Pier & Loft. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi
Found this description on spotify
Thank you !!!! ❣️🌼. For all the Info, I am from South America and discovered Japanese Ambient music, during the lockdown,,I love it so much I can say is my Favorite!!😊 and it helps connect with the Oneness of life ...🙏🏻
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this .....I'm sitting here relaxing just searching for some new sounds to fill my head with ....as much as I'm missing live music right now this has just filled the gap ...and you just topped it off with that lovely tribute to a great man .....thank you very much ....♥️♥️♥️👊
Thank you for all this great Info,
It really increases my level of appreciation ❣️❣️❣️for the composer,,, and his great music!!!!
no problem guys, glad i could share this information! if you want to know more, check out his wikipedia. i also backed it up on wayback machine and made a few edits myself, so hopefully this information will not get lost
thank you, kind and curious stranger
My senior year of high school was pretty rough. I'd listen to this every day during my morning commute on the bus and just look out the window. It really brought me peace when I felt like everything and everyone was fading away. It made me feel lonely, but the album gave me a stoic freedom with my loneliness. Very reflective
Interesting comment Owen. 'Stoic freedom' I like it. I've often clicked on songs (or albums) that makes me fell melancholy, because of a combination of nostalgia or perhaps being reminded of a period of my life that was blue/dark but I was able to escaped from via the very tune I am listening to yet again. I always looking for an explanation for being drawn to going back. Doesn't bother me much, but it's an eerie feeling.
I've had this exact same experience with another album. Hold your Colour by Pendulum, especially the track Still Grey at the end had such alien, lonely, yet calming sounds that I found myself listening to it nearly every day when I was in high school. It suited the dreary, dark 5:30am-ish mood well and gave me a reprieve from other people.
@@AugustusBohn0 I just gotta say hell yeah. Love pendulum hahaha and that song does get me in a mood
@Rippley Dang, yea high school did feel pretty lonely for me too, the couple good friends I had and a music artist named Mewmore got me through it though. Ever since I've become a Catholic this year ,I've felt less lonely because I have a group of fellow believers to talk to. I hope everything is better for you nowadays too.
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@@tomallen5837 That's fantastic
What an incredible piece of history and music. Its crazy how the internet has allowed so many people, including myself, to be hearing this for the first time. I imagine if I was an adult in 1993 and came across this in a music store, my mind would be blown.
same felling Bro
He's such a lost to the Ambient world..
Same, I would have loved to have orginally heard this back in '93.
nice comment
You echo my sentiments.
ローカル博物館のシアタールームに、たった1人で座っている様な気分になる。本当に心地いい
It's war here in Ukraine. It's dark and cold outside. I am afraid to die and I am tired of living. But I was listening to this album for a couple of weeks ...and it reminds me what is there to live for. I love being in the woods.
Be safe out there.
Thank you, I am safe, keeping high morality is difficult
Your love beats fear.
its same here in iran. i can feel exactly what you're saying.
@@hoomankz1306 I am with you, I understand you.Sebding you my love and praying for Iranian people, beautiful country
you're a part of my life and i'm a part of yours, person scrolling through these comments. I was once where you are. You have so much to grow and experience with. Never lose sight of that beautiful future. I love you.
A little dash of spiritual pride there? Best wishes nevertheless.
Fuck you and your principals office inspirational poster BS. I am not a part of your life. Fuck off.
@@jessejamesainger3263 you are for this short moment, even if we never see each other again. I believe the internet is a powerful tool that makes a certain type of communication and experience possible, that wasn’t really possible ever before in all of human history. I feel a certain connectedness that’s hard for me to describe. Comments like my own have also helped me feel certain powerful and beautiful things in my past, so I was hoping in a way I could do that for someone else, and I like to think I did. I’m sorry you got so enraged by my comment. Just scroll by or leave a dislike if you disagree with it; no need to leave hateful comments on posts you were never obligated to read anyway. Your time alive is way more valuable than being used making other peoples’ lives intentionally harder.
Ironically, the best part is that we could have never talked, or met, or knew the other existed in any capacity, save for a statistic like a worldwide population number if we hadn’t had this interaction online through this comments section. That’s part of why the internet is so cool. It’s okay if you forget about me or whatever, it’s probably natural. But this moment still happened, and for a brief while, we got to connect in some way. Whatever that way might be, even if not so pretty lol. Couldn’t have happened without the internet. You’ve just met one of the thousands of people right now that you never would have had the internet not been around.
@@meh3083You sound like you are in one of those cults that prey on the insecurities of weak minded people. Or maybe you're religious. If there's any difference.
@@jessejamesainger3263 That’s not a refutation to anything I said, that’s just an ad hominem and an opinion. You’re entitled to your opinion, but that doesn’t mean you need to be abrasive on the internet. It’s that simple. If you dislike it and it’s not harming anyone, then just scroll on and live your life.
My cat loves wet land he started squinting his eyes, purring and looking so happy ❤❤❤❤❤
is that him in ur pfp? hes so cute
@@nyssalikesbugs yes, 🤗 thank you tho he is about 10 years older today
@@nyssalikesbugs btw I like your drawings they are pretty good
thank you all the hiroshi lovers out there, i feel kind of unity with so much people on this planet. bliss
Shared energy. :)
Hiroshi has become one of my heroes.
he is genius!
Timeless energy. That's the power of music.
It's sad, yet life is not perfect. Humans destroy whatever they touch..
마음의 고향, 돌아갈 수 있는 안식처가 없었던 나에게 이 앨범은 언제까지고 내 상처를 어루만져 주었다. 마치 이 세상이 끝날때까지 이 앨범의 품속에서 잠들고 싶은 기분
Coronavirus isolation is leading me to some incredible pieces of music..
Hello from Sydney, Australia. I've been working from home for a week because of the coronavirus. I think I've got enough liquor and toilet paper for the Duration.
TheLadyDiazepam i m italian and I live at home because it’s impossible to go out ( lockdown ) . I ve never been in Australia unfortunately how is living there?
@@Marco-mw9ky ciao anche io sono Italiano
@@Marco-mw9ky dove stai tu fanno i flash mob? A Roma anche 5 al giorno 😂
void abito a Trento ma sono Lombardo . No qui pochissimi flashmob . Fortunato sei di Roma
I am sad and alone. Despite this the music inspires hope and sets my mind ablaze. I hope one day things will change.
they will
The one constant in life is perpetual change.
gay
It's over
This got me through many painfully severe panic attacks in recent months, many dark nights being soothed and calmed by this wonderful album. Now i'm recovering, I love it just as much.
And still now the cool soft water of this music rinses and calms me during the night hours.
@@complexlittlepirate3589
Glad to hear that, stay strong my friend
I hope you are in a better place friend :)
@@superhamham Thank you very much for that kind thought. I have indeed had some better times, right now I am going through some more difficult times, just trying to ride it out with meditation, slowing down, taking things as they come. Warmest best wishes to you.
hang in there
This reminds me of my childhood days.... when i was at home... my window faced the backyard of another building which has a tree.... and a street in front of that building. This street is a busy avenue. I would sit there with my palms holding my head high, gazing at the beauty of nature and city intertwined... during rainy days and nights...when the passing of traffic mimmicked the sounds of beach waves.... and the traffic lights reflected themselves upon the wet asphalt, which caused an array of lights throughout the entire avenue. I observed this from my high palace. Its a low income housing in bronx, ny. This sight caused a melody in my heart, and i laid down to look up at the ceiling in darkness as I reflected on the forthcoming days...how would i make a living in this big world?
His music reminds me of my 90s childhood in Matsuyama, Japan where I'm at this random exhibition at the local community centre/museum nearby. Sunny, quiet daytime visit and I liked the atmosphere. Nostalgia at its finest.
That's beautiful, i'm from Portland, Oregon U.S.A and it kind of makes me think of my own childhood as well, playing Nintendo games and roaming in the woods, catching tadpoles and swimming in the rivers!!!
@@lukebingus9432 Man I wish I had these kinds of chldhoods. So relaxed, and carefree... I live in Hong Kong so I don't get the kinds of experiences you describe but I do get to explore the big city, and all its quiet parts. Next time I'm on a walk I'm playing this for sure.
@@PatheticTV Definitely do! I play this one all the time, the 2nd track especially is insanely gorgeous while out by yourself with headphones!
@@lukebingus9432 I’ve visited Portland. It’s so beautiful too.
Super Nintendo, swimming in the river, following a leaf floating in the river until it’s gone, secretly looking after stray cats in the abandoned car...
@@furugon you nailed it!!!
This album saved me/my life I’m almost certain. Wish I could get a vinyl.
何度見てもこのジャケのアートワークが息を呑むほど綺麗だぜぇ…😮💨
the sudden and total silence at the end of each track gives me the asmr shivers
This album is the perfect example of how texture in music can be so powerful. Not only is it melodically gorgeous, it also feels like a brain massage. Thanks for sharing.
I’m a pop musician from the city of Peshawar in Pakistan, I think Japanese artists have made brilliant music through out 80s and 90s in particular, this album is love .
The naan from your city is ❤️🔥🥳🤤
Totalmente. Será por influencia del padre del pop y la música electrónica? Stockhausen trabajo en Japón mucho tiempo.
@@Usermail98 I think Erik Satie had a big influence also
Pakistani pop music ? please stick to naan breads !
Amazing how Yoshimura has risen to become one of the premier musicians of all time
I’ve been exploring Japanese ambient music a lot recently and I keep coming back to the first person I discovered: Hiroshi Yoshimura. This is no formulaic, air-brushed ‘new age’ muzak. This and his other albums are warm, positive, multi-layered, highly listenable gifts that he has left to us.
would really love if you could make a playlist with similar stuff
@@lomen6694 there’s a very good Japanese ambient musician named Chihei Hatakeyama. You should check out his 2018 album Afterimage
@@lomen6694 Susumu Yokota also worth checking out.
though I agree with your statement, I feel like this record is actually is most "formulaic" of his ambient ones. I find the textures and structures to be a bit more generic, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I love this album and I think it's great
@@bodhid Agree. Sakura takes a while to grow on you but it’s mesmerising.
I was introduced to Hiroshi Yoshimura's music by a Japanese friend around 20 years back when I was 22 . I loved it back then too but never heard this album ever ......this lockdown has got me somehow here and happy to be here with all you lovely people who enjoy this ❤️ amazing master piece created by Hiroshi ...........
I listened to this while I walked to my miserly job religiously. Felt like some sort of mental fortification.
Hiroshi Yoshimura was my companion when I got kicked off the world team for my sport and I was lost in the world. His calm reverence brought me profound peace and acceptance in the worst of times.
what have you done?
what was your crime
Прослушав несколько секунд почувствовал приятный запах в носу. Сознание перестроилось на умиротворение. 🍃
Eu também :)
なんと美しい音楽
Every time I put this album on feels like a new beginning.
This is my favorite album ever. I can't explain why, but it goes beyond relaxing. I feel it reminds me of something I miss, long forgotten, something I yearn for. Hiroshi Yoshimura managed to impact me, even after so many years...
I came across this album during a period in my life when I felt lost and disappointed. I was close to giving up on music after years of trying to make it in the LA scene, while I was also dealing with the remnants of a failed relationship. I will never forget the first time I heard those opening chords of 'Wet Land', it was as if my heart could finally rest and start over. I realized music is beyond anything I could ever achieve, it is timeless and can only live in our hearts and minds, always has and always will. Thank you Hiroshi from all of us.
Would love to hear your stuff mate.
For sure! Here's a piece I wrote for piano: ua-cam.com/video/12793z7wvLM/v-deo.html
First time hearing yoshimura and this is completely mind blowing.
I remember walking in circles in a basketball field while listening to this album. I felt like I was walking in a really dark place, unaware of my surroundings. Just me and my thoughts. I really don't miss that part of my life...
This album helped me reflect and awaken from my delusion. I hope to return to the peace that was always there for me.
Be alpha.
😆
Beautiful. I know almost exactly what you mean I think. Best wishes.
I know you will find that peace again. It will be right where you always left it...in the Eternal Here and Now. Best wishes to you, friend. I love you.
just discovered this album and.... wow. This really is something special. It makes me feel as if am catching a glimpse into a spirited land far far away from this world.
for two years I've been scouring the internet for this album. never found it until right now. thank you! well worth the wait.
それにも加えて簡単に東京メトロポリタンテレビジョンTOKYO MX様などが思いきってすべての試験電波発射音楽を流してくれますよ。
@@アスパラトマト-p6u ステーションの名称は？
I am 38 years old, how am I just now finding this incredible piece of art?
I know right? I love this kind of music, just found it last week
@@jhonnysjipandfishhop6198 what's wrong with you, man?
@@jhonnysjipandfishhop6198 dude im sorry if your life has been horrible to you. What an awful way to react to someone though.
@@slowlynow9 Okay DC-Dad .. go back to your retirement home and cry urself to sleep you old fuck
hop donthope don't listen to those dorks...I like your style!
It’s a nostalgic feeling fading away in a distant memory
The first song eponimously called 'Wet Land' is one of my favourite piece of music, period. This vaporous sound of smooth synth lost in warm reverberation is unbelievably soothing. I have lately been trying to create this sound with my synths. I'm getting close, but not quite yet. To everyone who enjoys this kind of melodies should (must, really) get a hold of the compilation called Kankyo Ongaku. It's been released by Light In The Attic last year. You can thank me later!
I'm getting the compilation at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion.
I can thank you now.
Hey Samuel, youve probably found this out by now but the main synth sounds is a Roland D50 preset called Soundtrack. Its lovely. Just incase you want to play with it
I am listening right now, and so I thank you right now. (But also later 🙂) I love it!
The opening track gets me every damn time 😿
This aged very well, in fact is a timeless masterpiece.
This composer helped me go through very tough times.
same:)
how am i ever supposed to go and sleep if i keep discovering miraculous music like this very one
Hiroshi is so good with his MX synths.... the way he pans his voices... especially in spring mix 5:31
I can feel him reaching through time, it has taken me so long to get to right here, where our paths cross, him from beyond the grave, and me here with the mark he has left in the world.
it's incredible that I'm still here. In our living room couch, staring at the big veranda window in our house. It's just a cloudy morning, yet the light emitting across the room is blinding as the white curtains reflect it more. It's weird, the curtains usually sway and float, yet it's completely still, it barely breathes as it does. There's life outside, birds and insects making arbitrary sounds that sync for no one, but the it's natural calling.I am here, as I leave a trace. I am here, and there is life just in reach. With the songs that comfort me to serenity and then peace, just for a little while.
Listening for the first time and I fell like there was a cocoon of protective ocean waters forming and dancing around me. I felt like the streams inside my temple were dancing too.
This is the sound track I will listen to when I first visit Japan 🖤
I hope that comes true my friend. It's also my dream to visit someday!
I'll be living there soon and it makes me excited!!!
Welcome aboard to the unique genius of yoshimura. I’ve been living with this music as my life soundtrack for 2 years since being often housebound by chronic illness and have found it is often the best part of my day
Hi Saerom, Hope you find your day in peace.
The first song might be one of the most beautiful and calming things I've ever heard.
Its awesome how a few years back this hiden gem had only 20k views, it makes me happy to see all this people apreciating good art, cheers people.
No words to describe the feelings this album makes me experience.
I don’t know what it is, but the only times I can really relax enough to meditate, is when I’m truly alone in the forest, or when I’m listening to this music.
This is the kinda stuff you listen to on it's own and people go - WTF are you listening to!??! Then it shows up in a video game or a movie, and people are like - "That scene was so amazing!" and don't even realize how much heavy lifting is coming from the music/sound.
Hiroshi Yoshimura's albums have been a companion of mine on 2 years worth of essays, all-nighters, and depressive episodes. His music is medicine for my soul and it is heartbreaking that he can't see the amount of joy and peace that he's brought random Internet people in the 21st century :(.
2023
Perfect music to play Minecraft to. In an alternate universe, THIS is the Minecraft OST. Glad I found this! Every bit as enjoyable as the best of Brian Eno's work!
I think Wet Land is my favorite. It's that perfect mix of early 90s digital synths and environmental field recordings. And I discovered Yoshimura, et al over the past month or so while staying up dealing with anxiety and insomnia. I love the percolating sequences on Singing Stream most all
This music is like being in a state of dreaming. Yesterday night dream shown me my fear of losing my mom, after waking up crying i know i have to tell my mom i love her so much.
Like the blissful feeling of being held in a lover's arms .... knowing it will someday end.... aching....all so heartbreakingly beautiful ....
This is probably my favorite album of all time. The energy and vibes are just too pure
I do t know why this was recommended to me but I’m on board 100%
“Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles,
at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune,
I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
I am glad to the brink of fear.
I become a transparent eyeball;
I am nothing, i see all.''
this album makes me feel like i'm dreaming about playing a spyro level on a vintage television, i love it :')
i never thought of that but I like it
Wet Land is like waking up on a cold winter morning. You're ten years old, hungry, and your mouth still feels clean from brushing your teeth last night. No one else is awake, so you walk quietly to the bathroom. Once you're done you return to your bed, buried beneath the covers as you grab your 3ds and load up Animal Crossing: New Leaf. You can smell the clean linen sheets beneath you. Everything is calm.
Beautiful thought, I felt it through the screen
For me it was minecraft on an old laptop, but yes, same feeling.
Beautiful.
Once in a blue moon I let UA-cam auto play take the wheel for music direction. Never did I think it would provide me with something so beautiful. It blessed me with Hiroshi Yoshimura, and I am eternally grateful. His whole discography is the perfect compliment to any creative work. Thank you for uploading this, really. It's a lost gem.
Does that not just end up with a rude awakening when after 10 mins all you hear is the intro music for the Joe rogan podcast.
definitely, one of the best and purest albums I've ever heard!
When I listen to music like this I lay down, turn off the lights, close my eyes and it takes me to a completely different world
I can’t get over this first track ugh.
shut the hell up
no - stall - JICK
Lo sé
Yo, the first track is so fricken moving. You're my soulmate
@@theillustrator7437 I agree.
This is the moment when our souls and bodies are one again. Wish a healing listening to all of you.
Pandora opened the door. Discovering this great artist reaffirms life’s turning pages so precious
Kept getting this recommended to me and I finally gave in. Now I can't believe I went so long without hearing this masterpiece 😭
I discovered his music about a year ago. His albums bring peace, a true artist. So many Japanese Ambient pioneers who were so talented and unknown now heard all over this world.
If UA-cam didn’t shove 5 minutes of ads at me anytime I can’t push “skip”.. this woulda been nice to fall asleep to still 😢
なぜ見た事もないような少年の日の記憶がフラッシュバックされるんだろう…
It's the feelings of nostalgia for my childhood by the sea and for classic 16bit JRPGs all condensed into music.
heard this for the first time while i was serving my time, still it sounds lovely as ever
I got through my final semester of undergrad because of this record. I would listen to it everyday. My then fiance (now wife) never got tired of it.
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Susumu Yokota, and Yasuaki Shimizu are 3 of the only artists capable of making me cry instantly
I dont think I've had an ambient record almost bring me to tears. so beautiful
Oh my God. The feeling i got to this music is so great, i almost never experienced something this strong although i heared lot of music.
i'm listening to this while there are birds singing outside of my window. sounds like a part of the song. beautiful
this music is so calming that its one of the few sounds that i can actually sleep to, or even daydream! its actually the first music i daydreamed to, i just close my eyes and start dreaming while i can awake anytime i want and the time goes by extrem slowly while doing that
Absolutely sublime music. Immaculate bliss. I play this at work. It keeps us from attacking each other. 😄
Really unique, special music. I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy it!
blown away by this
miss 93' so much it hurts
This is perhaps the most healing Hiroshi Yoshimura album. I feel like I have been rejuvinated in a fairy fountain.
I'm a new fan. First heard Hiroshi about six months ago and absolutely love him. What a soul.
collection of pearls gathered within the stream of flow!
So sublime - things aren't so great right now and this is really helping. So are the comments posted here; feels like being part of a gang of peaceful and thoughtful individuals.
I found this at the end of a rather difficult but learnfull trip, and it left me going to sleep with comfort, warmth and hope. Very beatiful and helpful for processing some new perspectives and insights.
Music is really a wonderful thing, music is also a wonderful existence, if the human world without music, the world will become very boring, it can be commercialized, it can also make people communicate without obstacles, it can also make people degenerate, but it can also make people improve their。 spirituality, in short, a thing will always have its advantages and disadvantages.
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
Thank you for posting this is beautiful
Thank you, Mr. Yoshimura. For leaving something beautiful in this world for all of us to find.
Very good music to make me comfortable when I'm using a public restroom!
this is just so beautiful, i'm glad i found this in such a hard time in my life
音楽で自然を感じた…😌
お部屋でリラックス…🤤
I just discovered Hiroshi Yoshimura and am enamored. I've listened to all of his albums now and think this might be my favorite of his. Wonderful, special music.
This is definitely one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. Thank you so much eternally.
Every few years I discover another Audio Gem. I knew of Yoshimura, but never this album. It was a wonderful surprise to listen to his entire catalog and hear these treasures for the first time.