Hiroshi Yoshimura – Quiet Forest (Cassette)
Product Details
Yoshimura spent decades proving that sound could function as environment rather than entertainment, and *Quiet Forest* stands as a late-career distillation of that philosophy. His 1982 debut *Music for Nine Post Cards* helped establish ambient music in Japan as a serious art form, and the patient, ecological sensibility he developed across those years is fully present here.
Originally issued on compact disc in 1996, Quiet Forest was Hiroshi Yoshimura's last album-length work to be released before his passing in 2003. Largely inspired by his trip to the vast forests of the North American Pacific Northwest, the album is an aural reflection of the fantastical, surreal beauty he experienced as he walked through the otherworldly wilderness for the first time. The basic tracks were recorded in the fall of 1993. After numerous revisions to the song titles and a scrapped idea to overlay the tracks with nature field recordings, Hiroshi ultimately produced a latter-day masterwork that feels like the spiritual follow-up to Green, one of his defining works from a decade earlier.
UPC: 850054840424
Label: Temporal Drift
Release Date: 12.4.26
Format: Cassette