Flora (also known as Flora 1987) is a studio album by Japanese musician Hiroshi Yoshimura. It was released posthumously on 21 April 2006 through Prem Promotion, and later reissued on 20 March 2025 through Temporal Drift.
Background Hiroshi Yoshimura was a Japanese composer and sound designer. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1940. He created Flora in 1987, following his 1986 albums Surround and Green. He died in 2003, at the age of 63, from skin cancer. The album was released on 21 April 2006 through Prem Promotion. It was reissued on 20 March 2025 through Temporal Drift.
Critical reception
Shy Thompson of Bandcamp Daily wrote, "The FM synthesizer of previous releases is mostly absent, with Yoshimura opting for a more organic sound." She added, "Unadorned acoustic and electric keys take the focus; his playing is airy and expressive." Katie Hawthorne of Resident Advisor stated, "We'll never know precisely why he delayed its release, but I'm choosing to believe that the LP's playful tensions and unusually straightforward melodies are the sound of Yoshimura musing on his influences, as well as his lifelong artistic limbo between sound and music; noise and narrative."
The album was nominated for Best Reissue at the 2026 Libera Awards.
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes.
Original credits: Hiroshi Yoshimura – performance, recording, photography Yasushi Takamatsu – production Tamiko Hohda – production Toshikazu Goto (Gift Lab) – art direction Fumiko Ikeda (Gift Lab) – art direction Masahito Suda (Takuu Tuore Inc.) – cover design
Reissue credits: Yosuke Kitazawa – reissue production Patrick McCarthy – reissue production John Baldwin – remastering Tiffanie Tran – reissue layout, reissue design
Charts + Chart performance for Flora Chart (2025) Peakposition
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