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Artist.....: VA
Album......: Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music
Type.......: Album 1980-1990
Genre......: Ambient
Style......: New Age, Meditative, Ambient, Instrumental
Label......: Light In The Attic
CatalogNr..: LITA167
Url........: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4088-kankyo-ongaku-japanese-
Rel.date...: 16.03.2019
Str.date...: 15.02.2019
Source.....: WEB > WAV
Grabber....: Unknown
Encoder....: LAME 3.100 -V0 vbr-new / vbr-mtrh --lowpass 22100
Quality....: VBR 241kbps avg. / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Tracks.....: 10
Size.......: 71.98 MB
Length.....: 41:52
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Tracklist
01. Akira Ito - Earth Part 1 03:59
02. Fumio Miyashita - See the Light (Abridged) 05:57
03. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Blink 04:45
04. Masahiro Sugaya - Umi No Sunatsubu 05:14
05. Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix - Variation III 03:36
06. Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Space 01:20
07. Toshi Tsuchitori - Ishiura (Abridged) 04:44
08. Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 3 06:51
09. Yoshiaki Ochi - Ear Dreamin 04:14
10. Yoshio Ojima - Glass Chattering 01:12
Total Time: 41:52
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Release Notes
Note: The download version of this compilation only includes a fraction of
the tracks available on vinyl so it is only 10 tracks.
From Light In the Attic:
"Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series continues with Kankyo Ongaku:
Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, an unprecedented
overview of the country's vital minimal, ambient, avant-garde, and New Age
music - what can collectively be described as kankyo ongaku, or environmental
music. The collection features internationally acclaimed artists such as
Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Joe Hisaishi, as well as other pioneers
like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshio Ojima and Satoshi Ashikawa, who deserve a place
alongside the indisputable giants of these genres.
In the 1970s, the concepts of Brian Eno's "ambient" and Erik Satie's
"furniture music" began to take hold in the minds of artists and musicians
around Tokyo. Emerging fields like soundscape design and architectural
acoustics opened up new ways in which sound and music could be consumed. For
artists like Yoshimura, Ojima and Ashikawa, these ideas became the foundation
for their musical works, which were heard not only on records and in live
performances, but also within public and private spaces where they
intermingled with the sounds and environments of everyday life. The bubble
economy of 1980s Japan also had a hand in the advancement of kankyo ongaku. In
an attempt to cultivate an image of sophisticated lifestyle, corporations with
expendable income bankrolled various art and music initiatives, which opened
up new and unorthodox ways in which artists could integrate their avant-garde
musical forms into everyday life: in-store music for Muji, promo LP for a
Sanyo AC unit, a Seiko watch advert, among others that can be heard in this
collection.
Kankyo Ongaku is expertly compiled by Spencer Doran (Visible Cloaks) who,
with a series of revelatory mixtapes as well as his label Empire of Signs
(Music For Nine Postcards), has been instrumental in shepherding interest in
this music outside of Japan. Together with Light In The Attic's celebrated
anthologies I Am The Center and The Microcosm, Kankyo Ongaku helps to broaden
our understanding of this quietly profound music, regardless of the
environment in which it's heard."
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