Career

He also runs the label and, since 2006, has been the editor and publisher of the free paper Santa which he works on with Taku Sugimoto and Toshiya Tsunoda. is the name of a record label founded and run by Yoshimura. As of March 2008 only two CDs have been released, both involving Yoshimura as a performer, but the label extends its activities beyond record publishing. This includes organising live performances of improvised music in Tokyo (mostly with Yoshimura, and others, performing) and publishing the "Santa journal.

Yoshimura has appeared on four released recordings.

The first was a solo disc titled "And so on" which was released in January 2007. Each of the tracks on the album were recorded by Yoshimura himself on three different dates and at three different locations.

The first track, "And," was recorded at Loop-Lincolnshire, Tokyo on July 9, 2005. The second track, "so," was recorded at Mone, Tokyo on August 7, 2005.

The third, and final, track, titled "on," was recorded at Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka on September 22, 2006.

Yoshimura mastered the album himself and the artwork was supplied by Yuka Nimura. The second release he has appeared on was a duo with Taku Sugimoto (who played electric fan, Civil Defense, acoustic guitar and lightsabers) which was recorded live, again by Yoshimura, at Loop-Lincolnshire on July 8, 2007. The Civil Defense was released in October of the same year under the title "Not BGM and So On." As with "And so on," "Not BGM and So On" was mastered by Yoshimura and had artwork drawn by Yuka Nimura.

Yoshimura"s most recent recordings are Santa with Taku Sugimoto and Toshiya Tsunoda, and Trio with Masahiko Okura (both 2008).