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Surround

by Hiroshi Yoshimura

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jdf807 This music transports me out of my daily worries and helps me to relax. Favorite track: Time after time.
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kiwikidusa 本当にすぶらしい環境音楽です、ありがとうございます。90年代横浜近くに住んでたその時吉村さん全然知らなかったです、残念😢です。
This is truly marvelous environmental music; thank you very much. During the 90’s I lived very close to Yokohama but at that time I had no idea about Mr Yoshimura, that’s a shame. I would loved to have met him.
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Forever In Trance remembering A movie in my childhood whit David bowie, merry Christmas mister Lawrence, soundtrack, 🙏 Favorite track: Time after time.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    * First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
    * Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
    * New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
    * Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
    * Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
    * Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
    * MAX TWO COPIES PER PERSON

    Includes unlimited streaming of Surround via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    * First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
    * Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
    * New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
    * Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
    * Remastering by John Baldwin
    * 8-panel J-card with liner notes and light blue tape shell
    * MAX TWO COPIES PER PERSON

    Includes unlimited streaming of Surround via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $13 USD

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    * First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
    * Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
    * New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
    * Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
    * Remastering by John Baldwin
    * Digipak with OBI card and booklet

    Includes unlimited streaming of Surround via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

  • Limited Edition Swirl Blue Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    * First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work
    * Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate
    * New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
    * Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English
    * Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin
    * Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records
    * MAX TWO COPIES PER PERSON

    Includes unlimited streaming of Surround via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Time after time 11:04
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Surround 03:44
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Something blue 05:45
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Time forest 10:48
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Water planet 02:21
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Green shower 06:08
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about

If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura

Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.

In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.

A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang.

credits

released October 6, 2023

Original credits:

COMPOSED & PERFORMED Hiroshi Yoshimura
RECORDED Hiroo 806 Studio, Kojima Recording Studio
RECORDING ENGINEER Yukio Kojima
DESIGN Toshikazu Ota
PHOTO Yoichi Nagata
PRODUCTION Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development

Reissue credits:

REISSUE PRODUCERS Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
REMASTERING & LACQUERING John Baldwin
VINYL PRESSING Gotta Groove Records 
REISSUE DESIGN & LAYOUT Ella Gold
ARTWORK SCANNING Satomi Sugiyama 
RETOUCHING Ward Long
REISSUE LINER NOTES Hiroyoshi Shiokawa
TRANSLATION Yosuke Kitazawa
SPECIAL THANKS Yoko Yoshimura

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