Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 Pearl Sunrise Vinyl edition

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Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

Pearl Sunrise Vinyl edition

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, a promo LP for a Sanyo AC unit, and a Seiko watch advert, among others, can all 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.

First-ever fully licensed collection of this music outside of Japan

3xLP with extensive liner notes and artist bios, including an essay by Spencer Doran

Vinyl pressed at Optimal

Cover photo by Osamu Murai features buildings designed by Fumihiko Maki

Special vinyl edition pressed on Pearl Sunrise color wax

Mediji	Mūzika VINYL LP (Vinils)
Ierakstu skaits	3
Tiks izlaists	2026. gada 10. decembris
EAN/UPC	0826853116725
Izdevniecība	Light in the Attic
Žanrs	Electronic Ambient
Izmēri	320 × 325 × 9 mm · 900 g (Svars (aptuveni))