Susumu Yokota - The Boy And The Tree (Skintone Edition)

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: Lo256
UPC: 5057805952213
Release Date: 20 Feb 2026
Genre: Downtempo / Ambient / Experimental

- Limited edition Orange 2x12” vinyl LP.
- Housed in PMS printed inner sleeve, featuring custom fonts by No Format and spot gloss abstraction of the original album artwork. 
- Accompanied with a double sided 2-panel insert and double sided 4 panel poster.
- All sleeved in a custom PMS reverse board outer sleeve with die cut square centre panel and belly band.

a1. The Colour of Pomegranates
a2. Live Echo
a3. Fairy Link
b1. Grass, Tree and Stone
b2. Secret Garden
b3. Rose Necklace
c1. Beans
c2. Plateau on Plateau
c3. Red Swan
d1. Thread Leads to Heaven
d2. Future Tiger
d3. Blood and Snow
 
The Boy and the Tree was composed after a visit to Yakushima Island, an outstandingly beautiful world heritage site off the southern tip of Japan, scored by a deep, lush and ancient ravine, home of the ancient 7000-year old ‘Jōmon Sugi’. Tree. Also the inspiration for Miyazaki's epic anime Princess Mononoke, a conflict between the rampant greed and destructive force of humanity, and the stoic, mysterious fragility of nature.

This fleeting immersion in nature lent the album a profound introspection and mystery, and the its twelve tracks unfold in dream sequence, each drifting seamlessly into the next while still managing to steer the listener in myriad directions, from eerie butoh atmospheres, to ebullient raga, to desolate, cavernous chanson. The Boy And The Tree is definitely one of, if not the most, visually evocative and cinematic Yokota releases.