Japanese composer Yutaka Hirose’s unreleased tracks collected on 2xLP

Ethereal ambient meets environment music, growling electronics, and avant-garde sound design.

Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Yutaka Hirose’s previously unreleased tracks are being collected on 2xLP, called Trace: Sound Design Works 1986​-​1989, via WRWTFWW this July.

Listen next: Yutaka Hirose’s ambient journey through 1986

Trace: Sound Design Works 1986​-​1989 features eleven tunes, recorded following the completion of Hirose’s Nova album, which was recently reissued on WRWTFWW.

Across the record, Hirose toys with ethereal ambient, delicate chimes, environment music, growling electronics, and avant-garde sound design.

Trace: Sound Design Works 1986​-​1989 follows the label’s release of Midori Takada’s You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana and Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter albums, in June.

Pre-order Trace: Sound Design Works 1986​-​1989 here in advance of its 1st July release; check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. Reflection
2. Fluctuation
3. Light From The Clouds
4. Air To Feel Outside
5. Inner Voice
6. Looking Back
7. The Breath Of Cyberspace
8. Babel’s Library
9. Cross Section Of The Underground
10. Voice From Past Technology
11. Study For Scientists