Various - 環境音楽 = Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990)

Various - 環境音楽 = Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990)

Name: Various - 環境音楽 = Kankyō Ongaku (Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980 - 1990)
Brand: Light In The Attic
SKU: LITA 167
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Genre: AMBIENT / NEW AGE / ELECTRONIC JAPANESE

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3LP "Blue Translucent" Colored Limited Edition, Indie Retail Edition
Release Date: 31/1/2019
Label: Light In The Attic

3LP "Clear" Color Wax Limited Edition, Online Exclusive Color
Release Date: 31/1/2019
Label: Light In The Attic

2CD + Book Edition
Release Date: 31/1/2019
Label: Light In The Attic

Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series continues with Kankyō 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 kankyō 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 kankyō 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.

Kankyō 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, Kankyō Ongaku helps to broaden our understanding of this quietly profound music, regardless of the environment in which it’s heard.

3LP "Blue Translucent" Colored Limited Edition, Indie Retail Edition 3LP "Clear" Color Wax Limited Edition, Online Exclusive Color 2CD + Book Edition

A1 Satoshi Ashikawa– Still Space
A2 Yoshio Ojima– Glass Chattering
A3 Hideki Matsutake– Nemureru Yoru (Karaoke Version)
A4 Ayuo Takahashi– Nagareru
B1 Joe Hisaishi– Islander
B2 Yoshiaki Ochi– Ear Dreamin'
B3 Masashi Kitamura* + Phonogenix– Variation・III
B4 Interior– Park
B5 Yoichiro Yoshikawa– Nube
C1 Yoshio Suzuki– Meet Me In The Sheep Meadow
C2 Ryuichi Sakamoto– Dolphins
C3 Toshi Tsuchitori– Ishiura (Abridged)
C4 Shiho Yabuki– Tomoshibi (Abridged)
C5 Toshifumi Hinata– Chaconne
D1 Yasuaki Shimizu– Seiko 3
D2 Inoyama Land– Apple Star
D3 Hiroshi Yoshimura– Blink
D4 Fumio Miyashita– See The Light (Abridged)
E1 Akira Ito– Praying For Mother / Earth Part 1
E2 Jun Fukamachi– Breathing New Life
E3 Takashi Toyoda– Snow
E4 Yellow Magic Orchestra– Loom
F1 Takashi Kokubo– A Dream Sails Out To Sea - Scene 3
F2 Masahiro Sugaya– Umi No Sunatsubu
F3 Haruomi Hosono– Original BGM

Disc 1
1. Still Space - Satoshi Ashikawa
2. Glass Chattering - Yoshio Ojima
3. Nemureru Yoru (Karaoke Version) - Hideki Matsutake
4. Islander - Joe Hisaishi
5. Ear Dreamin' - Yoshiaki Ochi
6. Variation III - Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix
7. Park - Interior
8. Nube - Yoichiro Yoshikawa
9. Meet Me In The Sheep Meadow - Yoshio Suzuki
10. Ishiura (abridged) - Toshi Tsuchitori
11. Tomoshibi (abridged) - Shiho Yabuki
12. Chaconne - Toshifumi Hinata

Disc 2
1. Seiko 3 - Yasuaki Shimizu
2. Apple Star - Inoyama Land
3. Blink - Hiroshi Yoshimura
4. See The Light (abridged) - Fumio Miyashita
5. Praying For Mother / Earth Part 1 - Akira Ito
6. Breathing New Life - Jun Fukamachi
7. Snow - Takashi Toyoda
8. Loom - Yellow Magic Orchestra
9. A Dream Sails Out To Sea - Scene 3 - Takashi Kokubo
10.Umi No Sunatsubu - Masahiro Sugaya
11. Original BGM - Haruomi Hosono