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Limited Edition Swirl Blue Vinyl LP

by Hiroshi Yoshimura

* First-ever official reissue of the pioneering 1986 ambient work

* Produced in full cooperation with Hiroshi Yoshimura’s estate

* New liner notes by original album producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa

* Includes Yoshimura’s original notes in Japanese & English

* Remastering and lacquer cutting by John Baldwin

* Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records

If Surround can be listened to as music that’s as close to air itself, allowing us to enter each listener’s sound scenery, or as something that exists within a new perspective, expanding the middle ground between sound and music, and transforming it into a comfortable space, it would be much appreciated.

— Hiroshi Yoshimura

Originally released as an album in January 1986, Surround was recorded by Yoshimura as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.

In his original notes for the album, Yoshimura recommends that Surround be placed in the same family of sounds “as the vibration of footsteps, the hum of an air conditioner, or the clanging of a spoon inside a coffee cup.” And, as he suggests, “with the addition of city noise from outside the window,” you may hear Surround in a completely new way.