Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: DRFT09LP
Barcode: 850054840011 
Release Date: 25 Jul 2025
Genre: Ambient/Environmental

'Listening to the album is a grajfying experience as it gives a strong sense of connecjon between the inner and outer worlds. Shiokawa believes that Surround and Green are two complimentary parts that comprise a new whole.' THE QUIETUS REISSUE OF THE WEEK

First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work.
Produced in full cooperajon with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate.
New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa. 
Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English Remastering and lacquer cuÑng by John Baldwin.

Vinyl pressed at GoKa Groove Records.

"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 perspecjve, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.
— Hiroshi Yoshimura

Temporal Dri^ proudly presents the long-awaited, first-ever reissue of Surround, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s sought-a^er ambient classic. 

Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to funcjon as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces. A pioneer in the field of environmental music, Yoshimura’s previous works included Music For Nine Post Cards (1982), originally produced to be played back inside a museum space, and designing sound environments for public spaces and subway systems. Surround was recorded almost concurrently with the acclaimed and popular GREEN (1986); the two albums are described by Hiroyoshi Shiokawa in his liner notes as being Yoshimura’s yin and yang. 

In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibrajon of footsteps, the hum of an air condijoner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addijon of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way."

TRACKLIST:
A1. Time a^er jme (10’56”) A2. Surround (3’33”) A3. Something blue (5’36”) B1. Time forest (10’36”) B2. Water planet (2’12”) B3. Green shower (6’06”)