Hiroshi Yoshimura

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Hiroshi Yoshimura
Background information
Birth name	Hiroshi Yoshimura (Japanese:吉村弘)
Born	(1940-10-22)October 22, 1940 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Died	October 23, 2003(2003-10-23) (aged 63)
Genres	Ambient minimal environmental electronic
Occupations	Composer songwriter
Instrument(s)	Piano, keyboard, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TX7, Yamaha FB-01 [1]
Years active	1972–2003

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘, Yoshimura Hiroshi, 22 October 1940 – 23 October 2003) was a Japanese musician and composer. He is considered a pioneer of ambient music in Japan.^[2][3] His music lies mostly in the minimalist genre of kankyō ongaku, or environment music—soft electronic melodies infused with the sounds of nature: babbling brooks, steady rain, and morning birds.^[4] However, not all Yoshimura's work included nature sounds. His album Green (1986) only contained them in the United States release, as they were excluded in the Japanese version.