Hiroshi Yoshimura - A・I・R (Air In Resort) (full album)

[@novakattila]

Fun fact: this album was done to a Japanese skin care company (Shiseido, which is why the logo is on the CD). It was basically a "worthless" CD accompanice to some product most people prolly put in the trash can without listening. Now it's on youtube decades later and people listen to it. Life is so weird sometimes. I think that makes it even better, knowing how it got almost lost.

[@nickydastinks]

So mindblowing huh?

[@user.nickprez]

that is crazy!

[@urituba6993]

I love this but the image is of a sticker from a vinyl record and the recording is clearly from vinyl (crackle crackle).

[@novakattila]

@@urituba6993 Yeah the story is the same but it was vinyl instead of cd

[@rommix0]

Sounds a lot like what happened to Mort Garson's Plantasia album.

[@yacuncha4045]

This is what people will be listening to in a few thousand years to find out what the beauty on earth was once like.

[@АлександрПерчов-ж9у]

There will be no humans on earth in a few thousand years. Let alone 50, at this rate.

[@beszt95]

@@АлександрПерчов-ж9у ok liberal

[@aeonss__________]

@@beszt95 how does liberalism relate to this? Please explain, otherwise I will be amazed by your stupidity

[@beszt95]

Aeon Aeon Liberals believe humans are going to destroy the world in X amount of years and cause everything to go extinct.

[@aeonss__________]

@@beszt95 sane people think that. Not the whole world. Simply humanity. I don't see how seeing capitalism or neoliberalism as inconsistent with the life on the planet makes you liberal. Rather it makes you anti-liberal. Maybe you need to refresh your views :')

[@jeanapp_]

Interesting how that the composer must never have imagined this CD’s role during this lockdown period. I’m working from home, listening to this album, and imagining Earth getting a chance to breath again, healing itself with the reduced human activity going on.

[@bootsmade4walking]

Such a beautiful thought, friend!

[@kingkudzu352]

You need to share more thoughts with me if that’s what goes on in that noggin man

[@maxsl-111]

embodies the legacy of the artist

[@fruitsn4ck]

It's vinyl not cd and earth won't get to breathe again until it rids itself of the parasites that have claimed it, humans.

[@Lorena-jp7ws]

In Italy under coronavirus lockdown, thank you for this moment of peace.

[@Lorena-jp7ws]

Thank you! I wish you the same

[@cecirossi4863]

hope you're doing well. love and support

[@lucianopoveretti]

ma perchè le parli inglese se capisce l'italiano???

[@marco.c-m8c]

Il Salento ama e ringrazia Hiroshi Yoshimura che aiuta s superare questo momento difficile 💓🙏. Greeting from Italy

[@Lorena-jp7ws]

@@marco.c-m8c Mi manca il mio Salento e Maruggio, saluti ♥️

[@jojogormley5219]

Two years after this video was uploaded, I heard this for the first time in a high school classroom after hours. Four and a half years after that, I've finally caved in and bought a vinyl copy. My music taste has changed a lot in the years between but this has been one of the few things to stay in rotation all that time. Staring out the windows of those maths rooms, art rooms and design rooms I always felt very peaceful. The KZbin community of uploaders sifting thru old Japanese record crates have their names etched into me, and I sometimes return to these comment sections like visiting old friends. I sincerely hope this record means this much to me many, many more years from now.

[@natedawg161992]

Nice profile picture and thanks for sharing your story!

[@veronikaserbryakova7385]

Now that I'm almost 18, this music makes me remember the way I perceived nature at my grandmother'd dacha. The forest, the mushrooms, the sauna and river... It makes me remember episodes I never had, as if from the previous life.

[@xedn]

wtf is a gammar dacha

[@veronikaserbryakova7385]

@@xedn shoot didn't notice, I meant my grandmother's dacha (country house)

[@iggiryjoff]

им не понять, что такое дача и баня)

[@memeaom]

@@iggiryjoff хаххаххаахха

[@iggiryjoff]

@@memeaom ну реально

[@alexanderaultman]

I woke up mid-sleep to 30:17 playing, and in that brief moment of about 2-3 minutes of being in the trancelike state between being asleep and being awake, I felt like I was in some magical place. Probably the closest I've ever come to a lucid dream.

[@TheSovietBear97]

That state is called hypnagogia. A very intersting state of mind. With certain substances (cannabis), it is very easy to enter that dream like state. Its quite a magical place eh? Also a very random place.

[@ilkyazyagmur4262]

I had the exact same experience

[@VikAutofocus]

Wow man, felt the same a couple years ago. It was with Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians". Both strange and amazing feeling.

[@StarfieldRailway]

@@TheSovietBear97, people who want to have lucid dreams shouldn't do pot. It is lucid dream kryptonite. That is ironic because pot can give a glimpse of what lucid dreaming is like.

[@Hyper5nic]

T.A.H.I.T.I. - It's a magical place.

[@Kerlasia]

okay i was about to be mad at the fact that my new laptop's speakers have already blown out, good thing i read the description

[@wayfarer9245]

This Album is like the oceanic feeling as a kid in nature. Mystical, calm, refreshing.

[@アスパラトマト-p6u]

懐かしくて忘れられない儚い世界まるごとストレートミュージックファンタジーですよね。だから孫が喜んできますよ。幸せの山を忘れては嫌ですよ。だから裏切れないサウンドですよ。純情一杯ですよ。きらめき一杯の花ですよ。大自然などを離れては嫌ですよ。

[@none0099]

このアルバムのジャケットに書かれていた吉村弘さんの文章があまりに良かったのでここに残しておきます。 音をを大きく分けてみると、2つのタイプに分けることができます。 攻撃していく音とつつみこんでいく音。音楽とよばれるもの、特に西 洋音楽の伝統では、攻撃していく音の要素を多く使うことによって表現をたかめていきます。逆に自然の音や民族音楽などでは、つつみこ んでいくの要素が多いためか、まわりの風景や生活空間になにげな くとけこんでいることがわかります。つつみこんでいく音は、個人の極端な美意識よりも、私たちのなかにねむっている感性をひきだしてくれます。 自然の音を聴いていると、無秩序なものではなくとても調和のとれ たものであることが気分をやわらげてくれます。カッコーの歌声やアカゲラのバーカッション、小川のせせらぎ、コマドリのコーラス、波のひとりごと、などに耳を傾けていると、ボクもいっしょに演奏して みたくなります。 樹の香りのなかに含まれているフィトンチットが殺菌効果や心身を リフレッシュしてくれることが近年の研究で解明されてきました。 自然の音やつつみこんでいく音を聴くことによっても同じような体験ができるものと思います。 このレコードでは自然をベースに、そこから共振してくる音の波長にあわせて、伴奏していくといったかたちで、まとめてみました。 自然音の方が主旋律として聴けるかもしれません。それはきっとあな た自身が発見した、あなただけの音楽なのです。 吉村弘

[@derekoshitoko]

掲載ありがとうございます。嬉しいです。吉村さんの音楽がより素晴らしいものに感じられます♪

[@southernswede1852]

hi❤

[@southernswede1852]

@@derekoshitoko hi❤

[@KMConnor]

My cat loves this album

[@user-lb7zw5bb7n]

KM Connor my cat loves ambient music too and there is no more suiting image than a cat stretching out and giving that calm peaceful shudder of contentment, to match up with true ambient greatness.

[@mizofan]

ah yes and the Japanese have an affinity for cats- one of my favourite books is I Am a Cat (by Soseki), and one of Hiroshige's best artworks is of a cat, with a view of the rice fields.

[@Music_withEmily]

mine too.

[@errortonin]

i am against your cats

[@MultiMimulus]

Mine too

[@gloriadawson5594]

this is such a valuable piece for me in these dark days. excellent to do yoga and/or meditate to. look after yourselves xx

[@katiefrances531]

i discovered this while trying to do this quarter's last assignments... everything got switched online and deadlines got crunched. knowing this might take so long is painful, but as long as i've got music like this, i think i can hold on

[@gloriadawson5594]

@@katiefrances531 you got this!

[@somerandomperson3978]

For those on mobile

[@fruitsn4ck]

Much appreciated friend

[@דפנהכהן-י9י]

❤

[@Youutterwasteof]

these songs recreate the feeling of being in love... wow

[@matbritton6816]

The people who feel like they need to give this a thumbs down would not understand it anyway. Art has no boundaries. Like God and love.

[@JJBerthume]

I actually love the vinyl crackles.

[@Allenbass7]

It does add it's own distinctive layer... like the crackles of a fire....

[@xbenci]

@@Allenbass7 well in this case it's also necessary, cause this album was only ever released on vinyl and never repressed. also, don't know if your name is referencing what I think it's referencing but I'm pretty sure it is

[@jocelynr4940]

Every time I listen to Hiroshi Yoshimura, I am astounded. How could he think of such unique sounds, and create such such wonderful sound worlds with so few of them? Never ceases to amaze me.

[@stuartdavid8493]

The sounds are all presets on the dx7 synthesizer. He simply listened to Music For Airports by Brian ENO, turned on the dx7, and went for it. Even the bird sounds are presets on the dx7.

[@kristineshahoyan2841]

There is a war and my brother is there.. he is my light, please let the war finish

[@MountainJohn]

Im from the USA. I dont know what country your brother is from or who he is fighting. But even if he is fighting USA, I hope he stays safe and protected, for your sake.

[@Amarok32]

Hope he is ok, nobody should be fighting wars

[@kristineshahoyan2841]

@@Amarok32 Thanks, the war is over, my brother is okay... but thousands died

[@Amarok32]

@@kristineshahoyan2841 i'm glad to hear your brother is ok, i pay respect for his partners that couldn't get back home, It's simply not fair

[@learlawliet6197]

I Hope He’s Okay ❤❤❤❤

[@Ryan_Perrin]

I have always listened to OST and Post-Rock music on KZbin. I'm glad I started listening to Japanese music too so the KZbin algorithm could allow me to stumble along this gem of an artist.

[@ANONYMOUS-kb3gn]

The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

[@Kopoane]

Hiroshi Yoshimura's music has a grounding effect on me. It's like watching someone do calligraphy in a satisfying way, you know? "Ah, that brush stroke is perfect as it is."

[@putriddivine]

Oh my god this album is a long lost memory until this second. Thank u lmao.

[@CrossHolder92]

Awesome! So tranquil and minimal, yet it still has substance. Great music that doesn't disrupt your thoughts, but rather aligns them with the melody.

[@spartenofpie]

i love the way your brain works

[@lefantome3062]

Literally listened to it during lockdown and profoundly rediscovered myself. I took care of traumas that had been plaguing my life for years and found myself and I know the calmness of this album accompanied me throughout the whole healing process

[@asynthe]

everytime i listen to this, a new sci-fi love story emerges in my mind, and i suddenly forget how everything is still the same

[@PolarChimes]

I feel like I'm listening to the sound of all the life on earth through the eons, the unstructured and loosely coordinated dance between many forces and positions of focus. No one force is allowed to dominate so the nonporous monotony of structure cannot be imposed. A feeling of ancient purity in this music, it is beautiful. Like looking at the fossil record and seeing many currents of life that are no longer, sealed forever in the purity and infinity of stone with plenty of glittering crystals inside of it. Maybe one day these fossils will be all that remains of us.

[@maryanmorales7946]

I used the first song for a broken heart video art and didn’t know who was the artist till now and listen the same song years later it feels right. I heal. This music have something I can’t describe, it is pure art to me.

[@katyanaprewetts6482]

It took me many years to discover this and I was so amazed that Hiroshi Yoshimura made Mori no Yoake. If you listen to lofi, you'll definitely recognize the first few notes from an eevee song. It blows my mind that it's from here. Always wonderful to see where the sample comes from. Listening to this is a gift.

[@MacMan2152]

good. this is what my ears had been asking for and I couldn't find the right words to describe what I wanted to hear. I am glad youtube algorithms introduced this Hiroshi Yoshimura to me.

[@Freedomfighter76239]

Олег Пулемётное Туловище me as well good sir:) the algorithm knows best hehe

[@prrsun]

All hail the algorithm gods for brining us together

[@KoltronZer0]

Wasn't till i took a break from caffeine that I felt I could actually appreciate this album

[@aegisfate117]

Weed smokers be like === snoop dog Beer users be like === too turnt Caffeine users be like === gotta tone it down to feel it

[@pablovirus]

​@@aegisfate117 snoop dog? Like, what are you talking about? Literally comparing a herb that has been with humanity since probably ancient India with some half-assed American "musician" because kids and stoners round your block give it bad rep. Or am I misreading your comment?

[@VitalMusic217]

@@pablovirus You are not an exotic lama for smoking a joint. GTFO.

[@ElectricChaplain]

Y'all need to chill in this comment thread

[@leonardo9259]

@@pablovirus I cringed really hard ngl

[@VizMP33]

I was digging thru youtube for new music and found this genius, never heard of this artist before. Thats what i love most in that digital age we are living, when something shows up and you are just mesmerized to the fullest. So good , and the perfect soundtrack for my water fasten cur, i am right now.

[@hosseinrostami5937]

The smell of love...

[@Ctopkis]

Thanks for uploading. It makes me happy that there are people chilling out to this.

[@jiyujizai]

瞑想の音楽に。最高です。

[@Freedomfighter76239]

坂巻洋 yessir:)

[@summervine289]

This is so beautiful, i literally wanna cry

[@ponchomang]

album art: Hiroshi Nagai

[@ootoot2152]

I live for custom LP Labels like these

[@EvanJamesMusic]

i discover a new album by this guy everyday i sweae

[@Camdavis11]

Yeah exactly. He really has a huge volume of work

[@17thwonder]

makes you want to get lost in your headphones and go explore mother nature

[@xbenci]

man sometimes youtube really has great taste in music. I mean this is supposed to be some kind of lost or forgotten album, but it has 700k views! that's really a lot

[@lindenbaum5492]

Спасибо рекомендациям за красивый эмбиент, уже сколько альбомов послушала, все хорошие

[@lucinda1363]

after 2 years of broken heart i felt relief. I fell in love with this masterpiece

[@mrbadnut]

This is amazing to sketch to! .. & just listening's dope too.

[@dantraficonte8752]

Can’t believe I didn’t know this existed for 28 years

[@Tutybanana]

hey 28 year old dan, whats up!

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

Lol whatever happened to dont trust strangers... by just this comment i know your name is Dan Traficonte and you are 28

[@niss6826]

Better late than never! I also hope you get to know this artist before long kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnyxpaKNrNN-h7c

[@nikooooooooooooooooooo]

having this record with the smell of shisheido fragrance that still there for over decades, crazy !

[@nikooooooooooooooooooo]

also thats why all the records has crisp sound because they sprayed on it lmaoo

[@crayonwall4485]

I love this. I instantly feel strong emotions of peace and calmness without even trying. It's beautiful.

[@cynthiahenderson450]

I love ambient and space music, but most seem a bit heavy compared these older ones coming from Japan, bringing so much lightness of being; so much hope. ARIGATO!

[@rldecorato]

This is so unique, strange, enlighted beauty!

[@jonathan-sl6jc]

listening while the sun rises... thank you for sharing this

[@tyroneepps3018]

Hi ! N.l.h. I have your new ! Channel I like this album I will put this in my Library so Keep the albums Coming your new ! No.1 fan !

[@OMGITzGriFFith]

One of the most beautiful music album ever. Thank you very much. 💕

[@misterbadusername]

B2 カモメの水平線 (Kamome No Suiheisen) it feels so much like haruomi hosono watering a flower

[@thebig_steel]

Absolutely, it honestly just sounds like the middle of the album if it were slowed and dropped in pitch. As soon as I heard it I came down to the comments section to see if anyone else heard it .

[@91mac_]

randomly realized after years of listening to her and randomly coming up on this album that a cool lofi artist named Eevee sampled Mori No Yoake aha #nice

[@91mac_]

@@yannikschommer6215 "Lily" by Eevee. Its the first track in the album "Unexpected".

[@katyanaprewetts6482]

i knoww. It blew my mind as well when i heard the first track for the first time and realized that eevee got the front notes for Lily from this Mori No Yoake. Full circle, youtube algorithm.

[@FrostyNipz]

The lofi artist Eevee sampled the opening track.... beautiful

[@vampirebarbie_]

this record always seems to help my cats relax, and so help me so its a win win

[@xp3506]

Thank you so much for taking the time to rip and upload this. One of my favorites.

[@edensky5825]

I'm half-Japanese, but didn't grow up there, I don't know the language, have no relatives unfortunately. A part of me feels like I belong there, living subtle quiet life in a beautiful village. Away from my current place where I don't feel like home. Maybe one day I'll experience the country.

[@edensky5825]

@Burton aka *** thank you Burton 😊 this is the nicest thing someone said to me today 😊

[@edensky5825]

@Burton aka *** is the singers name Jim Reeves?

[@hirohikonishikawa4851]

Mine is luckily not as crackly, only on one part it starts to crackle badly, but I always thought it is a part of music as it was when the ocean waves set in. It was like that from the beginning.

[@emanuelavalos4294]

how much did you pay for it, when did you buy it, do you still play it on the reg?

[@niss6826]

Hi sir I am very jealous that you own this record. I am also curious what you would think of this artist kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnyxpaKNrNN-h7c

[@MrDumbeldore1000]

The crackling kind of gives the sound an anker to this world as the music without it floats through the room like air Sounds like the speakers slowly warm up like a campfire, but in a good way

[@ekwnfhwndgv561]

great find in a while

[@yvesboutin5604]

What a beautiful and relaxing music! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@franckcoinchelin9862]

Très agréable moment sonore et musical .

[@MS-sj7zx]

"Kamome No Suiheisen" always wells me up in tears, but its so nostalgically beautiful. Thank you for sharing this album.

[@natedawg161992]

Of course! Glad you like it.

[@niss6826]

Totally agree Also consider checking out this artist kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnyxpaKNrNN-h7c

[@Gymnophoria1]

♥i love this peaceful feeling, its like a soothing inner silence for spiritual travelers...♥

[@dreamtheorists]

Hiroshi Yoshimura created something amazing with this album

[@aaliyan2]

Insanely beautiful.

[@menjizen4255]

2:26 so peaceful

[@guacamolesurf]

oh wow this is a master piece!!! thank you for this!!!

[@mony377]

Thank you, ForestMusic san from Japan.

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

Listening to this in a very crowded taxi cab in the middle of a tornado.

[@daveash2896]

Put this on to wake up to... still in bed.

[@MrJohnGierach]

Everytime before film sets i try to stay come and focus. Hiroshi always helps.

[@edibb3880]

Genial realmente hermoso !! Saludos desde México 🇲🇽🇲🇽👏💪🏼👍💯

[@nikki.englanduk387]

Just come across this,🥰😌I’m SO Glad that I did!🥰🥰🥰Thankyou

[@Breathwithnature.]

A deep sense of calm arose from within.

[@leafbudi]

this is gorgeous wow

[@Marymusicnvlogs]

This is relieving my anxiety.

[@divinelight1129]

Same sis

[@PolarChimes]

Kirameku Umi is gorgeous.

[@johnnywillpower1432]

This is a timeless masterpiece!!!

[@chisosambient7532]

The crackles add to it, forcing us to reconcile the natural sounds and the artificial context, life force and the imposed and orderly human interventions. Sounds are interventions in time!

[@terrytibbs5678]

Someone got a thesaurus for Christmas!

[@pinktigerstripes2824]

0:19 wooow it reminds me of nintendogs

[@friendlyfloatything]

play it at 50% speed and fall asleep to it 😢

[@stripedhyenuh]

Apparently the company that commissioned this put a drop of their perfume inside each copy of the record, and the perfume bonded to and damaged the vinyl which is why all the copies are crackly

[@jongilbey]

I've been playing this at half speed - love it :)

[@davidgibb4551]

well la dee da

[@bv74353]

I am rather taken by the quarter-speed version myself.

[@theusmedeiros341]

perfeito do início ao fim. rip hiroshi

[@magpiecore]

Heard the first two tracks in a soundcloud mix once, finally found the real thing and it couldn't be better

[@leisureenjoyer1986]

huge love for the YOSH

[@juneshines]

Good walk with this music

[@FranciscoChile77]

This is heaven !!! 💞

[@marciaoliveira2137]

OH NO, This is so incredibly! How i don't knew this before...? Feeling sad now.

[@Backstabbio]

This was very cool

[@tothejazz4828]

20:45 has identical harmonics to the opening of HR 8938 cephei by deadmau5

[@VersusWorldwide]

i can’t make myself to turn this off

[@meld3058]

A veces pienso que en el vacio hay tristeza... luego me digo la depresion esta tan desgastada en mi, que ya no tiene sentido. Entonces me río... Porque no te pueden asustar dos veces con lo mismo, pero si puedes aprender a reirte d los malos chistes. Puedes variar algo las segundas veces, puedes recurrir a la creatividad o cosa mas mistica... A el Amor.

[@gogee27]

Yes… This morning I fell deeply in love with my depression, there was no resistance, so it was kind of gone. The beyondness took over, and I guess it’s no wonder I was led to this album… Thank you for sharing your thoughts, greetings to two years back in time…

[@vegan4theanimals]

My cat loves this.

[@alejandragrandon9653]

how do you know? what does it do?

[@nurul-aynblewett7582]

Same!

[@chironOwlglass]

Cats have a surprisingly developed aesthetic sense of music

[@vegan4theanimals]

@@alejandragrandon9653 animals aren't "its" so I'm not going to respond to that question.

[@vegan4theanimals]

Thor passed away today. My heart is empty...

[@BornInArona]

That's so sad that Hiroshi died 1 day after his birthday. Life...

[@janee8396]

6:20 should be the new theme of resident evil safe rooms

[@blurstoftimes91]

Well this is certainly making return to office less miserable

[@__Henry__]

Ah! so THIS is where Eevee got her opening sample from

[@__Henry__]

and more!

[@__Henry__]

@Ryan Smith There is a beat/remix artist with the moniker Eevee who remixed this album into a sort of low-fi, hip-hop (idk) thang. Both that and this are good.

[@luminegress6782]

This is amazing! Sound's like a Fender Rhodes with reverb in the beginning. So much new age from this era feels dated.

[@natedawg161992]

I wish that all new age from that era was as good as this! You should check out the label Silent Season, it leans more towards minimal and ambient but is similarly tranquil.

[@luminegress6782]

Nice I will do that. My friend runs a small tape label called BARO records that puts out really nice ambient and new age stuff. I'll check out silent season.

[@ajohnson7735]

ForestMusic i will ck out Silent Seasons, ThankU

[@88gordi]

nice album! thx for the upload :) oh btw I think there's a typo in the description. it's supposed to be 小鳥たちのカフェ

[@sietafak]

Well done sir, well done.