Music for Nine Post Cards
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| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
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| Length | 45:24 | |||
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Music For Nine Post Cards is the debut studio album by Hiroshi Yoshimura, released by Sound Process in 1982 and rereleased by Empire of Signs in 2017.
Recording and release
[edit]The album was home-recorded with a keyboard and Fender Rhodes.[1] In the liner notes Yoshimura stated that he was inspired by “the movements of clouds, the shade of a tree in summertime, the sound of rain, the snow in a town."[1]
Yoshimura originally sent the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art a copy of the album intended to be played in the building but after much interest from visitors the album was then given a wide release as the first instalment in Satoshi Ashikawa’s series “Wave Notation” in Japan.[1] In 2017 the album was reissued by Empire of Signs, the first time outside of Japan.
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10[2] |
| Spectrum Culture | 4/5[3] |
| The Times |   [4] |
Upon its rerelease in 2017 the album received critical acclaim. Thea Ballard of Pitchfork wrote that the songs "have a disarming presence, cutting sweetly into the listener’s reality" and that "The effect is multidimensional: melancholy, wistful, invigorating, consoling."[2] Eric D. Bernasek of Spectrum Culture in a positive review, stated that album is "uniformly calm and wistful, evoking the subtly discomfiting melancholy of nostalgia"; however, they criticised the song "Urban Snow" feeling that "The track limits the album’s usefulness as environmental music" by having a spoken word passage in it, and that "its mere presence compromises the purity of the rest by breaking the spell that was cast by the album’s overall restraint and uniformity".[3]
Legacy
[edit]In 2018 Crack Magazine selected Music For Nine Post Cards as one of seven essential Japanese ambient albums.[5]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks written and produced by Hiroshi Yoshimura.[6]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Water Copy" | 6:11 |
| 2. | "Clouds" | 5:54 |
| 3. | "Blink" | 4:42 |
| 4. | "Dance Pm" | 6:32 |
| 5. | "Ice Copy" | 2:55 |
| 6. | "Soto Wa Ame - Rain out of Window" | 4:36 |
| 7. | "View From My Window" | 6:15 |
| 8. | "Urban Snow" | 4:45 |
| 9. | "Dream" | 5:34 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Post Cards". Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Postcards". Pitchfork. November 15, 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ a b "Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Post Cards Review". 17 November 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Hodgkinson, Will (January 5, 2018). "Pop review: Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Postcards". The Times. Retrieved 20 December 2019. (Subscription required.)
- ^ "7 essential Japanese ambient and new age records". Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ "Music for Nine Post Cards". Retrieved 6 October 2019.
