Hiroshi Yoshimura

was a Japanese musician and composer. He is considered a pioneer of ambient music in Japan. However, not all Yoshimura's work included nature sounds. Green only had them in the United States release, as they were excluded in the Japanese version.

Early life Hiroshi Yoshimura was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa in 1940. He worked as a part-time lecturer in the Industrial Design Department at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Chiba and at the Music Design Department of Kunitachi College of Music. He also released Surround (1986). His 1987 recording, Flora, was released posthumously in 2006.

Death Yoshimura died in 2003 after battling skin cancer.

Legacy In 2017, Yoshimura, as well as other ambient Japanese musicians, received a resurgence due to changes to the YouTube algorithm. Starting in 2017, Light in the Attic Records has begun re-issuing some of Yoshimura's foundational releases, starting with his debut, Music for Nine Post Cards ' re-issue releasing in 2017 , later launching 'WATER COPY' a dedicated sub-label titled after the first track on Yoshimura's debut that was launched as a collaboration executed alongside Yoshimura's estate , with Green's re-issue in 2020 , subsequently releasing Surround'''s re-issue in 2023 , and Flora 's in 2025 .

His music has received much critical acclaim. In 2018, Crack Magazine selected his albums Green and Music for Nine Post Cards as the number 1 and number 7th most essential Japanese ambient albums, respectively. Malcolm Standing for Demo Magazine referred to Yoshimura as "one of the most influential and prolific of the artists to come out of Japan's ambient renaissance". Tom Moon of NPR noted Yoshimura as "one of the revered pioneers of Japanese electronic music". Pitchfork has highlighted all of Light in the Attic's Yoshimura re-issues thus far as their Best New Reissue designation, emphasizing Yoshimura's influence on the ambient scene as he "made music responding to and designed to exist in physical places... Yoshimura’s practice shines light onto corners of feeling that might otherwise go unnoticed."

Discography Studio albums Music for Nine Post Cards (1982) Pier & Loft (1983) A・I・R (Air in Resort) (1984) Surround (1986) Green (1986) Shizukesa no Hon (1988) Yoshimura Hiroshi no Mimi: Oto no Shima (1992) Wet Land (1993) Face Music (1994) Kankyō Enshutsu On (1995) Quiet Forest (1998) Four Post Cards (2004) Soft Wave for Automatic Music Box (2005) Flora'' (2006)