seconded - there were some tunes in there that I didn't recognize and I'm curious what they were. YEN records stuff maybe?
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 March 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Thank you very much Frogbs and Capitaine!
A few weeks back a friend requested a mix of 'some of that Japanese stuff you like' so in the spirit of sharing here is a link.
It's a mish-mash of Shibuya Kei, some older new wave and some things in-between.
http://we.tl/pZbLNC13e8
1. Clammbon - Rock Climbing2. Kahime Karie - Mike Alway's Diary3. Akiko Yano - Ikanaide4. Comoesta Yaegashi - Bossa With Madam Rosa5. Fantastic Plastic Machine - L'Aventure Fantastique6. Ikuko Harada - Kodama7. Cubismo Grafico - Obrigado Obrigada8. Hikashu - The Model9. Our Hour - Panda Riot10. Shione Yukawa - 風よ吹かないで11. Mariah - そこから12. Capsule - Sweet Time Replay (feat. Dahlia)13. Midori Hirano - Ancient Story In The Room14. Nagisa Cosmetic - Cosmetic Happy15. Happy End - Ghosts Of Flying Squirrels At Kuriyamizaka16. Hazel Nuts Chocolate - Kaze Hiite Batankyuu17. Macdonald Duck Eclair - Many Many Sweets18. Buffalo Daughter - Ivory19. The Folk Crusaders - Harenchi
― MaresNest, Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Hey guys sorry but never made a tracklist. There's stuff off bootleg demos and rehearsals floating around on there if I recall but it's all mainly released stuff.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 13 March 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
np, just thought I'd ask in case you had it handy
― original bgm, Friday, 14 March 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
live ver of "thousand knives" the mix closes with rules
― original bgm, Friday, 14 March 2014 03:48 (ten years ago) link
Technopop momix is excellent. Artwork is outstanding!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 14 March 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
momix = mix
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 14 March 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
i saw hosono-san and koshi miharu live, doing kinda loungey acoustic stuff. was p good. miharu has an amazing singing voice
a hosono related thing i've been digging recently is the first yumin record from... 1973 i think. she kinda set the stage for the idol/シティーポップ boom in the 80s. she's the idol, really, japan's most loved pop star. it's mellow folky singer-songwriter type stuff, slick 70s studio sheen. hosono plays bass alongside some of the other tin pan alley dudes (under their caramel mama guise), and does some arrangements and what not
http://www.geocities.jp/d58es_vr2/img/tanpopo7.JPG
― missingNO, Friday, 14 March 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
love him. my preferences: http://www.last.fm/user/jakobdorof/library/music/%E7%B4%B0%E9%87%8E%E6%99%B4%E8%87%A3
― soyrev, Sunday, 11 January 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Anyone got "Archives, Vol. 1"? I think it's mostly stuff taken from soundtracks to various things. Though the notes say the tracks span from 1987 to 2008 it seems like the majority is from his Monad period, so if you like the ambient side of Hosono you'll probably dig a lot of this. Parts of it remind me of the quieter bits of his Omni Sight Seeing album.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KasFWBKGg&feature=youtu.be
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 22 January 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
x-post
I was excited to hear it but ultimately found that archives release to be a little underwhelming. not bad or anything, but not really on part with any of the monad releases. :-/
― original bgm, Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:06 (nine years ago) link
N.D.E. is really great -- kinda sorta dolphin-y 1995 era ambient techno with lots of gamelan samples. cool to hear him being influenced by 808 state, the orb, orbital et al as he was a huge influence on all of them.
i also play "pliocene" at least a few times a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvjXDAfPhk
― dudem, (clouds), Sunday, 29 March 2015 08:44 (nine years ago) link
Never got much into NDE - thought the beats were cool but it misses the melody aspect that I like so much from him. Love "Heliotherapy" and "Aero", but overall I think his other, more ambient mid-90's albums are better.
I've been big into Miharu Koshi's Boy Soprano; Hosono features heavily on it (along with her prior two), but this one in particular feels like a really great Hosono album with some terrific singing on it. There's a big nod to Cochin Moon and a really haunting "Ave Maria" which is amongst the most beautiful versions of the song I've ever heard.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 30 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
going over his discog again today as i have to resort it on a new computer. i know this thread isn't a formal S/D, but just for fun....remarkably, it seems like if i ever had Cochin Moon, i don't have it now. if anyone notices other glaring omissions, do lmk...
Search: NDE, the Paraiso collab album (!), Bon Voyage Co. (!), Good Sport, Hosono House (! i remember perusing some LITA-type compilation of '70s 'country funk' from the american south; this album negotiates that blend so much more naturally), HoSoNoVa (! similar deal, but folk fit to early 20th century pop templates), Medicine Compilation (!), Mercuric Dance (! a few of the best ambient pieces i've ever heard), Naga: Music for Monsoon (! despite titles like "Sherpa" and "Taj-mahal," it's not silly in the way Sakamoto's 'Indian'/'Himalayan"-inspired music occasionally was), Omni Sight Seeing ("Korendor" and especially "Pleocene" are essential, though I do think the rest is among his least coherent work), Pacific (! great exotica/muzak), Philharmony (! first couplet tracks are a bit goofy even for my tastes, but rest is great and "Sports Men" is easily a top ten track for the entire YMO universe), Tale of Genji (like a darker, more sustained Naga), The Aegean Sea (a really nice, more upbeat/fusion companion to Pacific), The Endless Talking (! his starkest, least sociable album that i've heard, but amazing sounds and composition), Tropical Dandy (down the tracklist more and more of a Randy Newman influence shines through, which refracts really nicely through Haruomi's lens)Consider: Making of Non-Standard Music (neat but inessential), Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo (ditto), Paradise View (totally solid, but he has so much music in this vein and a lot of it is better)Destroy: Video Game Music compilation (interesting that he did so many early games soundtracks -- Pac-Man included! -- but as standalone music, it's mostly insufferable)
his work as a songwriter is so distinctive that it can be easy to forget he's a god-tier ambient artist, up there with eno.
anyone else appreciate the not-quite-on-the-beat cymbal work buried deep in the mix of "sports men?" goes a long way in counterbalancing all the song's repetition.
any clear precursors/influences one might name for "Pleocene?" might just be a blindspot in my listening, but i really don't think i've ever heard another song like this one.
reading a thoughtful amazon review for Philharmony, and it notes, "Keep in mind that this album was originally recorded all the way back in 1982 (coincidentally the same year compact disc technology began revolutionizing the recording industry), and represents the first time digital sampling was ever used to construct an entire musical album." anyone know if there is truth to this claim? first ever?
lastly, i wouldn't have guessed it, but given i've yet to find any truly crap (or even sub-good) albums in his discography, i might say i prefer his body of solo work to ryuichi's. ryuichi may have better highs, or at least more of them, but he's definitely got some real blunder albums under his belt (and more than his share of so-so).
― soyrev, Saturday, 11 April 2015 08:03 (nine years ago) link
ALSO noticed upthread many references to YMO/ryuichi/haruomi bootlegs, rehearsal recordings, etc. where/how can i hear???
― soyrev, Saturday, 11 April 2015 08:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMhUfASCW4g
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i60.tinypic.com/2qa1vkj.jpg
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 August 2015 07:57 (eight years ago) link
rad
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 9 August 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link
If I could somehow live inside a song, it would be Pleocene
― MaresNest, Sunday, 29 November 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
^^ pretty much, so fucking beautiful
― clouds, Monday, 30 November 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
Is it because of the cats?
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Peacocks, silly
― MaresNest, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
singing "ooh la la la"
― clouds, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Hey? Did you know that Hosono’s grandpa was the only Japanese passenger on the Titanic? And that he survived?
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/masabumi-hosono.html
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125020,00.html
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 11:05 (eight years ago) link
Amazing! Thanks for that!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
He made a record with Steely Dan at some point, in the vein of Steely Dan almost. A quite random record.
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/prins-thomas-dug-deep-into-his-crates-and-found-his-7-favorite-ambient-records-of-all-time?utm_Soruce=thumptwitterus
um, any idea what he's talking about here? can't imagine this is true.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah i don't think that's true
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link
prins thomas would get roasted alive on ilm!!
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
hahaha yea I can't even think of a hosono record that even kinda sounds like the dan
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:10 (eight years ago) link
a hosono + dan collab would make me piss my pants
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
Me too, there's a few JP bands that are Dan like (Kirinji or Tomita Lab) but I can't think of any Hosono tracks that sound like them either.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 10:22 (eight years ago) link
Still alive. Good.
― The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
could he be thinking of World Standard? man, I have no clue
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm gonna start rip threads for live dudes if you knuckleheads keep this up
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Bet he meant Little Feat
― Deverly (Bangelo), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
He meant Little Feat.
― Demeraray & Essequebo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
who played with Happy End right? that's probably it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
Got it.
― Demeraray & Essequebo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
And they were the backing band for the first Akiko Yano record too.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
ah yes, that must be what he meant
how did hosono hook up w/ little feat btw? there must be a good story there.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
Maybe happy end opened up for them in Japan? Wasn't' happy end the early 70s folky group hosono was in?
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_End_(1973_album)#Background_and_recording
― Deverly (Bangelo), Thursday, 11 February 2016 03:56 (eight years ago) link
World Standard
going through big Hosono kick right now, and just discovered this band. I kind of can't believe I like it, but this first record is really nice
― Dominique, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
their 3rd record (confusing called "world standard 2") is even better - on hosono's FOA label & also produced by him. 2nd record "allo" lacks hosono involvement and is kind of a outliner in their catalog (as there's not much of the minimalist francophile vibes / overt nina rota references / etc) but there's a couple really amazing abstracted pop songs. also the everything play albums (which was another alias sohichiro suzuki used) are worth checking out - especially "posh" from '91...
suzuki can at times come off a little precious or maudlin but there's a certain kind of precision in his approach (very japanese, of course) that i can always appreciate. the inverted gaze of his pan-culturalism (itself present in a bunch of hosono's work as well) is also quite fascinating
― spencer d, Thursday, 30 June 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
pacific is so relaxing atm
― clouds, Monday, 14 November 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
this blog has a post on (with download link) music hosono did for the housewares brand muji in the early 80s -- it sounds most like mercuric dance but the tracks are more longform and minimalistic. had no idea this even existed.
http://glob.daniel-letson.com/posts/haruomi-hosono-watering-a-flower/
― clouds, Monday, 2 January 2017 04:36 (seven years ago) link
yes! also featured on the first muji bgm disc:https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUJI_BGM1980-2000
so beautiful & so addictive. I listen to this almost every day. it's a part of my life's routine at this point, making coffee, feeding my cats, listening to hosono's bgm.
ps the 'found muji' store in shibuya plays this stuff on loop!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 2 January 2017 05:43 (seven years ago) link
Heaven is Hosono's first Muji BGM track on infinite loop.
― J. Sam, Monday, 2 January 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6XDU96KI0
excellent revive, this is great!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 January 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link