I don't know why or when KZread started flooding my suggestions with specifically 30-40 year-old Japanese ambient synth albums, but I am so grateful to have been exposed to this stuff.

@noktaluma

2 жыл бұрын

Would love to listen more to something like this. Could you recommend some of your discoveries?

@inlakesh555

Жыл бұрын

Same here🙂...

@slowlynow9

8 ай бұрын

oh idk…maybe it has to do with your obvious obsession with all things japanese? lol cmon.

@jetblackriver

8 ай бұрын

@maccd im smoking cigarettes in your car with the windows rolled up

@EastmanD

8 ай бұрын

Gotta GREAT suggestion if you like this music. Search out a guy named Andreas Vollenweider, you will love it. Caverna Magica is a great album !

I listen to this everyday. makes me feel that what I do in life is not that important and is not worth the stress. and it's ok not to be perfect and we have to be happy with that. greetings from India.

Picking a favorite Kokubo is like picking a favorite nap spot in an oasis of watefalls and hammocks. This one though...

Playing this in my house on a sunny day...stray black cat strolls in and makes himself at home with one ear on the sound. I'm at so much peace today ❤️

The insects on the cover are adorable. They look like they're carrying out their lives doing what they have to do. Bug business, it's kinda important.

@richardccarrot

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful comment :)

@wardenofeden

3 жыл бұрын

bug appreciation~

@Kotsonne

3 жыл бұрын

those are day flies, so every second has to be important business for them!

@benjamintchang3923

3 жыл бұрын

Very true, bugs deserve compassion too

@ceciliagincho6806

3 жыл бұрын

Bug business - big business. Busy they are with life itself, in perfect resonance with Nature: A thing of beauty, indeed!

I simply can NOT thank you enough for sharing this beautiful space with so many of us. Until I found your channel I had never heard of many of these artist. My anxiety goes from 10 to zero. I can sleep at now for more than a couple hours and you have honestly changed my life through the music you've so kindly shared. Thank you so very, very much. Stay well. Peace to all, everywhere.

@Voldein

3 жыл бұрын

this, your contributions are deeply appreciated friend, please keep up the good work

@Zogerpogger

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I did not realize music had such potential until I started listening to Kokubo's work 3 hours before I had a presentation. I went from quite anxious about it to mostly calm. I am looking forward to listening everyday now.

@dogsquadindia

2 жыл бұрын

Yes thanks for helping us discover the wonderful healing space of Japambient. ⛩️🇯🇵

Man just sitting at my desk with a boatload of tears, feeling as though all the pain and sin of the world has just washed away. I'm with all my family and friends living in peace and harmony forever and ever.

@bikutageto8369

3 жыл бұрын

@Marcelo Sampaio Yes, he's called Takashi Kokubo.

Man...the 90ies were outrageous concerning Electronic Music. And I'm so glad I grew up in Berlin - early exposure to Techno then Trance ( Sven Väth - Accident in Paradise, Chicane - Offshore etc ) then Ambient ( Future Sound of London Lifeforms Double LP, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme ) then Drum n Bass ( Timeless by Goldie...the best of all time )...then I got lost in Vangelis, Steve Roach and everything I missed out on - like this beauty...

Exiting winter and beginning Spring -

@ceciliagincho6806

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing better than experiencing this passage listening to Takashi Kokubo's musical pearls...

Sometimes i am in the water castle. Sometimes i am in the forest castle. Thank you for sharing this!

It is but such a shame, how many of these albums are just not aviailable anymore. The hard press releases are, of course, long sold out. Even if you are lucky to find one of these masterpieces somewhere online, you will have to pay a small fortune to get your hands on them. But even digital version do not exist, not even on Bandcamp or more niche websites. What makes it more weird is that Takashi Kokubo even has a Bandcamp account and is selling digital field recordings there. Why not sell these masterpieces digitally? Maybe some publishing/licensing mish-mash? Anyway, thank you very much for uploading these works and with that offer this great work to those who are new to discover this truly outstanding artist. Shows you the importance of public sharing and preservation.

takashi kokubo has been my single greatest discovery on youtube

@raindrozest9558

5 жыл бұрын

same here

@duccatty1

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@H-Vox

3 жыл бұрын

same here 7 seconds ago

@funtimes8296

3 жыл бұрын

@@H-Vox Times flies

Kokubo has become like a favorite fragrance to me.. 🪄✨️💛✨️

Synths have been around for a while and more than pads and drones, now artists use them to create beauty and dreams of possible Paradises. Takashi Kokubo's gentle uplifting creations are inspirations for me to see the beauty of life. Thank you.

I see green... I see a Japanese name....I click.

This music was with me during countless hours of work. To some degree, it supported my career.

I lived in Orleans one of big city of the Loire région in France! I used to spend hours walking down the Loire with my lover talking about everything, we started doing that while i was in a very sad moment of my life. Now my family is living soon. This album reminds me of the peacefull moments i spend with im so thank u so much For uploading

@vadim8068

2 жыл бұрын

Si tu avais un top de chateau/monument a me faire visiter en Loire,tu me donnerais quoi a visiter ? (juste un futur va nu pied sur les routes pour un petit projet tour de france gastronomique/culturel)

This is absolutely beautiful

I have been listening to Takaski Kobubo music all day !!!

Ahhhh - nice to depart earth and visit here

I feel like I'm inside a Kingdom Hearts level, roaming around the beautiful scenery and interacting with that world. So blessed to be alive to listen to music like this. It is truly amazing how we are able to stumble across something like this. It makes me feel grateful for everything positive and negative that happens on a daily basis. Keep uploading these lost, but not forgotten gems. Music is everything, especially when it sounds like this.

@gogee27

2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful comment, I feel you…

this is the most major scale music ive ever heard

I am at a loss for words to express the depth of Kokubo's musical legacy to the world. Listening to his albums keep us silent, anyway.

I can't thank Kokubo enough for existing and sharing with us these beautiful melodies

this series is mindblowing - the perfect summer music

This is exactly, impossibly exactly what I needed today. Infinite gratitude for uploading this!

I feel like I am watching a beautiful dragon rising in the sky. The dragon belongs to no one, not even nature itself. It is free, and I am freed letting it go.

@benjamintchang3923

3 жыл бұрын

That's a nice sentiment :) all animals deserve freedom

Always puts me into a state of mind which I am not used to. Enchanting, whimsical, and warm all over, Takashi Kokubo takes me to a special and unique place in my mind every time. Thank you should be for posting these masterpieces of musical art. ;-)

Gorgeous My heart smiling and opens up

A little window of beauty dragging me through a sleepy Thursday afternoon. Only one more day til the weekend 😊😊😊

32:43 "Fantasia" is specially wonderful!

Is this how pure happiness sounds?

I'm always looking forward to these uploads, thank you so much

@blackorpheliac1

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. So grateful.

@mattd3826

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@TheDocRitchie

5 жыл бұрын

@@mattd3826 me too, its great to listen to at work (chef).

as always, these recordings seem to exist out of their time, so eerie. Now I'm waiting for the link, in the meantime, thank you for digging those out of the unknown !

These albums are incredible. Every one of them.

I just found about takashi what a beautiful music stealing the heart and senses❤

thank you for this beautiful morning album ◡ the feeling of sunshine when it's on my skin.

Incredible. Soothing! I do not know how I got here, but thank you for sharing.

thank you so much from a neighbor of the Loire's Castles

I don't normally enjoy "relaxing" instrumental music (unless it's VGM or lofi), but this is something special. :)

An open world of opportunities, happiness and well being for the most part.. You make the world, no one else.

Greetings from Massachusetts

Beautiful influence creates a beautiful soul, simply wonderful

This is more gold on KZread.

Yay thank you! More music to listen to for work (giving massages). This is perfect!

this is so beautiful i want to cry

This is a really wonderful sound. So glad you posted it. I have never heard anything quite like this before. Beautiful.

Relaxing. Great make-out music.

This man is a blessing.

This music is so beautiful and sounds classical to my ears. I love all his works and wish i could find more of it. It seems like some of his music disappeared from youtube a while back, and i have no idea where to find it now. Thanks so much for making these wonderful works available.

AMAZING bach fantasia at the end

@jorllima

Ай бұрын

Hi! Do you remember which work is it? I can't recall it and I would like to listening it again. Regards

Man Fantasia sounds like the OST of a depressive, obscure old school J-RPG

@48billion88

3 жыл бұрын

pls tell me tcure old school jrpgs here are depressive obs

best for realy intense team fights in games. love it

@sonicsoftly

3 жыл бұрын

👍😎👌

this is wonderful music :”) thank u for all these uploads!! feels like i found a goldmine

I love thisss! Its so pretty, so I play it for my plants lol.

Thank you so, so much for your channel and showing us these beautiful works by Kokubo

In love with this album

Thank you, should be asleep san from Japan.

takashi is a big contributor to me being a good student again :)

This is one of the best channels

Stunning! The fantasia (starting at 32:43) sounds like Bach

@jorllima

Ай бұрын

it's Bach

I just levitated 200 miles across the landscape.

@hitlast1

3 жыл бұрын

holy shit

Great stuff

Nice music!🌝 Makes you relax!🌝

AHHH! New takashi kokubo! Thank you!! 😀

Great uploads from you, thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for uploading this beautiful music🐰 God bless you.

Thx as always !!

Perfection 💚🙏🏻🙂

Domou Arigatou Gozaimasu :) Wow Another lovely Album IONS are in the air :)

Japanese ambient music is the best!

Music is Medicine

Thank you, thank you, thank you...

The Ion Series album covers are really nice.

Thank u very much

PErfect As Always...... The BEst Channell in the Universe !!!!!

I really like this

Can I ask how designed the covers for this series? They all look amazing.

Thank you

im not here because of anxiety, i had beated that sh*t long ago with style. im just cool, i discover all kind of beauties and this was also one of them. :] see you guys around

Please continue uploading!

heart comforting music

OMGOSH thankyouthankyouthankyou... 😍

A new album!! Yes!!!!!

Another ion series!! Does anyone have a playlist with all 10 on? I've been searching for a while but have only managed to listen to 7 so far

I wish I was in a world were it was peaceful were I was a hero in the world. I wish if I ever die i wish I die in a place were it's beautiful and ether the sun sets or goes down. Well that's all I'll say

Perfect to start studying :)

@javiercastro2450

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect for anything.

Finally Uber meditative flows

@micahpacileo2307

3 жыл бұрын

it truly Lyfts my spirits

すごいーーー

OMG it's back! nice!

Thanks bro!

Love it!

Its like the Japanese Windam Hill style music. Just great relaxing stuff. No singing.

forest castle

Can I ask for a Flac dl for this one? It's amazing especially the first track, thanks for all you do!

Could we get a link for it please ? and would you consider making a blog to share easily all these wonderful albums ?

@danjohn6301

5 жыл бұрын

They are out there you just need to know where to look. Thanks for another from this lovely series mate!

@danjohn6301

4 жыл бұрын

@Python593 there's nothing preventing anyone here from doing the interview to get on said trackers or finding someone to invite them (unless they've previously been banned). Also, most anything that's on those trackers eventually trickles down to Soulseek and other public forums/blogs. It's not that I'm against sharing these brilliant albums but there are certainly better places to do so than on KZread and risk having the channel taken down/account disabled.

I wonder how did you met his work? He has such a big portfolio but never heard of Kobuto anywere

26:00 Deep Zelda Vibes

Don't despise the bird's droppings, it's the same nature as your brain.

Living in the "Vallée de la Loire" myself, i. Voilà