Music For Nine Postcards - Hiroshi Yoshimura (1982)
Ideated from: a mystery playlist I found that I have no memory of making but has some cool stuff on it
No doubt discovered in the same place as yesterday’s Yoshiaki Ochi, This is another gorgeous exploration of natural and ambient sound.
Yoshimura was an engineer and a product designer on top of being a musician and producer, so he thought deeply about the structures of music. You can hear a lot of that sculptural process in the slowly developing pieces here. Mostly featuring a fender organ, we have melodies that don’t build layer on layer as you might expect, but that build in harmonic complexity as we get further into each piece, while still sounding so simple and childlike.
Tracks I Liked
It would be a disservice to pick any out over the others.
