Ambient music in Japan
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Much like Hiroshi Yoshimura‘s and Yoshio Ojima‘s work, Takashi was quietly doing the rarely heralded work of adding bits of levity, focus, and emotion to what amounts to a very mundane, noisy, and, at times, quite chaotic world."[1] "The "sound chaos" that fills Sarah Peebles' ears is somehow unbalanced compared to the sound chaos of a western culture,' Hiroshi Yoshimura has written in notes accessible through the CD ..." --Haunted Weather, Page 120, 2004, David Toop "Over the last few years, obscure Japanese ambient classics like Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green and Midori Takada’s Through The Looking Glass have surged in popularity. Lewis Gordon investigates the phenomenon, talking to the record collectors and vendors in the US, UK and Japan that helped inform a new wave of interest." --Factmag[2] |
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Ambient music in Japan arose in the early eighties with artists such as Hiroshi Yoshimura.
