Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically underknown outside of his home country. Empire of Signs–a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran–is proud to reissue Yoshimura’s debut, Music for Nine Post Cards, for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi’s widow, Yoko Yoshimura, with more reissues of Hiroshi’s works to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura’s artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late-1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms–commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design–all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound.

• 12" Vinyl Record
• First Released in 1982