2LP – Black Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. First ever official reissue. Comes with liner notes by contemporary music writer and professor Junichi Konuma. Remastered from original sources by John Baldwin. Lacquers cut by John Baldwin at 45 rpm for optimal sound quality and vinyl pressed at Optimal Media.

Flora is an album that is listened to perpetually,
Passed on from one listener to another,
And the charm of the sound- and music-loving figure
known as Hiroshi Yoshimura,
Just might come drifting through.
Like the scent of a small flower.
Junichi Konuma

Announcing the worldwide reissue of Flora, Hiroshi Yoshimuras underrated work originally recorded and completed in 1987 and first released on CD in 2006, three years after his passing in 2003.

Flora is chronologically and stylistically a follow-up to Hiroshi Yoshimuras acclaimed 1986 works Green and Surround, wherein Yoshimura continues to play with the ambience of sound and the sound of ambience, underscoring his mastery in the field of environmental music. Listening to Flora is like taking a stroll in a park, absorbing the colours and textures of the natural environmentflowers, insects, the swaying of the leavesas Yoshimura often did at his beloved Edo-era park near his home in Tokyo. As Junichi Konuma describes in his liner notes, Yoshimuras music only begins to emerge as it exists at the intersection of passive and active. Yoshimura’s approach to sound and melody invites the listener to hear the intricacies of the music with intent, while simultaneously allowing the aural textures to exist as part of the background of our everyday life.

This reissue marks the first time the album will be available on vinyl (2LP, 45 rpm) and cassette, and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma and remastered audio by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Reissue design and layout was handled by Tiffanie Tran.

Tracklist:

1. Over The Clover
2. Flora
3. Asagao
4. Ojigisou
5. Maple Syrup Factory
6. Adelaide
7. Wind Echo
8. Trick Tree
9. Kasumi
10. Silence
11. Satie On The Grass

All composed and performed by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Photos by Hiroshi Yoshimura & Takeo Kubota
Recorded by Hiroshi Yoshimura at Hiroo 806 Studio, 1987
Produced for release by Yasushi Takamatsu & Tamiko Hohda
Original art direction by gift_lab (Toshikazu Goto & Fumiko Ikeda)
Original cover design by Takuu tuore Inc. (Masahito Suda)

Reissue produced by Yosuke Kitazawa & Patrick McCarthy
Remastered by John Baldwin
Reissue layout and design by Tiffanie Tran
Liner notes by Junichi Konuma