Name: (PRE-ORDER MID DECEMBER) Sakura (Skintone Edition) (BLUE VINYL) | Mint Editor’s Pick
SKU: SK0003340-US20251230-144836
Availability: InStock

Description

Susumu Yokota – Sakura (Skintone Edition)

Label: Lo Recordings
Cat No: Lo253
UPC: 5057805952121
Release Date: mid December (first pressing found defective so they have to repress it)
Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Downtempo

Format:
– Limited edition petrol blue 2×12” vinyl LP.
– Housed in PMS printed inner sleeve, featuring custom fonts by No Format and spot gloss abstraction of the original album artwork.
– Accompanied with a double sided 2-panel insert and double sided 4 panel poster.
– All sleeved in a custom PMS reverse board outer sleeve with die cut square centre panel and belly band.

a1. Saku
a2. Uchu Tanjyo
a3. Hagoromo
b1. Genshi
b2. Gekkoh
b3. Kirakiraboshi
c1. Kodomotachi
c2. Hisen
c3. Tobiume
d1. Naminote
d2. Shinsen
d3. Azukiiro No Kaori

Sakura is without doubt the most loved and lauded entry in Susumu Yokota’s catalogue.

The music unravels like cascades of petals falling from the eponymous cherry blossom trees. Yokota intended to ‘express ki-do-ai-raku (the four emotions; joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness) through music’, and throughout Sakura, the effect fluctuates between profound tranquillity, hesitation, melancholy and joy with ease, addressing the fickle nature of human emotion, while transcending the inclination to label moods entirely.

Sakura became Yokota’s best selling album. It was greeted with universal acclaim, lauded by Philip Glass and Brian Eno and launched Yokota internationally.

‘A bittersweet beauty, heightened by the sadness that all things must one day end.’ – Martyn Pepperell