The swiss multi-instrumentalist, composer and music producer Maxime Steiner is paying tribute to one of Japan’s most remarkable minimalist and environment music composer Hiroshi Yoshimura. Steiner will be performing Yoshimura’s album GREEN (1986) using FM and analog synthesizers, sequencers and loopers.
Most of Yoshimura's work existed in the overlap between sound, architecture, and everyday life. Yoshimura’s activities made him one of the central figures of kankyō ongaku, or environmental music, a homegrown style that drew upon Erik Satie’s “furniture music” and Brian Eno’s ambient investigations, as well as centuries-old ritual traditions.
GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings. As he explained in the original liner notes, the album title is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”, which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album.
