10. Susumu YokotaSakura

I found this in a vintage store on CD, I must have been 17 or 18. I hadn’t heard too much about Susumu Yokota. I loved the cover and I bought it, I didn’t know what to expect from it. It was this very beautiful ambient album; the textures, the timbre, everything was just so perfect. It was a record that stuck for so long. Especially with the calmer, slower stuff that’s more electronic. I try and emulate a lot of that world that he created. It’s very inspiring, those very loose rhythms; it wasn’t very Western in that sense, a lot of the melodies were but the rhythms were very unusual to my ears at the time. It just sends me to a beautiful place.