┌─┐ ┌─┬─┐ ││├┬┬┤├┼┘│ │┌┘┤││├┤┌┤ _________________________ Psychedelic Cyber Zone ______________│├┐│┌┤ │││_____ └┴─┴─┴─┴─┘ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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." ____________________________________________________ Psychedelic Cyber Zone __ est. 2001