Temporal Drift helm the coveted album’s digital release and return to physical formats.
Temporal Drift have mapped out plans to reissue late Japanese musician Hiroshi Yoshimura’s coveted full-length album Soundscape 1: Surround.
A landmark of the ambient and environmental music pioneer’s discography, Soundscape 1: Surround was originally commissioned for release in 1986 by home building company Misawa Homes with the intent of utilising the music within as an amenity to enhance their newly built living spaces. The album is said to have been recorded almost concurrently with the sessions that spawned Yoshimura’s similarly critically acclaimed Green.
Out digitally today with a forthcoming physical release expected in January, the reissue features remastered audio, a twelve-page booklet featuring Yoshimura’s original liner notes in both Japanese and English and new notes provided by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa, a producer featured on the album. Amongst the reissue’s looming physical editions are black and blue vinyl variants.
Of his newly revitalised album Yoshimura once mused,
“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.”
Stream Soundscape 1: Surround below.
Soundscape 1: Surround is out now digitally via Temporal Drift. Pre-order forthcoming physical editions of the album here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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