Haruomi Hosono

Heaven is Hosono's first Muji BGM track on infinite loop.

this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW6XDU96KI0

excellent revive, this is great!

Yup, that's the one. *chills down the spine*

<3

Fantastic.

(Is that a Juno 60 we're here?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7UE4uGIwE

This didn't seem to be on Youtube so I ripped it from vinyl and stuck it up there. I really like this micro-edit era of his work, shame there's not a little more of it out there.

superb.
hey, it's got the John McLaughlin opening guitar note sample from 'Miles Runs the Voodoo Down' that Jon Hassell used too (on 'Mati' from 'Dressing for Pleasure')!

Happy Birthday!!! (well for yesterday, gomenasai)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_93SrREKkE

New album out in Japan this week, and sound samples up here: http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/hosono/

Still in his folk/lounge phase, but sounds great...

I kinda love that he's going back to the start of his career, in a way. I'm assuming these are mostly covers, correct?

mentioned this in the vaporwave thread but Internet Club's Vanishing Vision album has a very distinct and deliberate Hosono vibe - this track feels like it could have been directly lifted from Coincidental Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26vJlGSUDnU&feature=youtu.be&t=15m53s

it was probably directly lifted from Shenmue

hah, right...maybe not the guy himself but whatever he lifted it from

New album is two discs - covers on disc 1, originals on disc 2 (including I think some reworkings of earlier Hosono songs?).

I love how is approaches this period of American music from an almost anthropological perspective - far from just assuming it's the default mode of rock and roll and replicating it, he treats it to the same kind of ethnographic/exotic study as, say, Hassell was doing with non-Western music.

* how HE approaches

huh I never thought of it that way

after some research it looks like the songs on Disc 2 span from 84 to the present day, though much of it re-recorded.

Of all the places where I expected to see an English-language review of the new album, the Economist homepage was not one of them.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/12/story-synthesiser

whoever wrote that is a real hero

Crapped my pants today, Harry is playing his first ever gig in the UK in June, public tickets on sale tomorrow.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/light-in-the-attic-haruomi-hosono-acetone

Noticed that in my email box today.

any idea what he's playing these days? "material across his career" is kind of a funny thing to say about Hosono...imagine saying that about Brian Eno

Dunno, but gawd, what a wellspring to draw from.

If he even plays Kaze Wo Atsumete, I'd lose my mind. Pleocene and I'd die altogether.

oooh! thanks for the heads up. just need to find a pal who likes him enough to accompmany me now.

Booked! Can't quite believe this...

i sprung for this too! :D

it's a shame it's a bit of a weird combination of acts though. not that i dislike acetone but i can't really see any connection to hosono other than the record label

wait, i typed the above without really thinking through what i was saying (just for a change)

hosono is on LITA's 'Even A Tree Can Shed Tears' comp, but that's it. wonder if we can read anything more into him appearing at a LITA night? they did say there were "dozens of releases" due in their japan archival series after all:

http://blog.lightintheattic.net/introducing-our-japan-archival-series/

jealous of you guys

I almost pulled the trigger on flying to San Fran for that one-off YMO reunion show

any idea what he's playing these days? "material across his career" is kind of a funny thing to say about Hosono...imagine saying that about Brian Eno

I'd be really surprised if he does anything electronic. in his RBMA academy interview from a few years ago, he spoke of his more recent 'boogie woogie' style in a way that made it sound something like the culmination of a life's work. like it took him a long time to arrive there & he seemed to be really comfortable & happy making music in this style. so, maybe covers in this mode?

unfortunately, I have little interest in this music myself. I heard what sounded like his new album in a record store a few months ago and it seemed to confirm that this music is not for me. hard to complain when someone has touched so much that I love already tho.

anyway, don't wanna be a debbie downer! I'd absolutely go in a heartbeat if the show were closer!

hes got to be one of the only artists whose musical output ventures from 15 years ahead of its time to 80 years behind

I've only heard Hosonova of his most recent stuff. Its fairly pleasant and has a couple really great tracks on it. But yeah, I don't think I'll be listening to it much.

An affordable reissue of Paraiso would be most welcome, I'm all for anything that helps that along

LITA putting Haruomi on the cover of their magazine:
https://instagram.com/p/BhxCfILl6kR/

They’ve gotta be up to something right? The Hosono article is a piece by Van Dyke Parks btw and apparently the zine is free at selected indie records shops, but you can read some of it on that insta post in the meantime

As suspected, IT'S ON.

https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2475-haruomi-hosono

I think this might be Omni Sight Seeing's first time on vinyl? I'll be getting that & Paraiso. I've got an original pressing of Philharmony, and the recent Japan-only vinyl reissues of Cochin Moon and Hosono House. But fantastic to see these records back out there.

very cool! im going to have to pick up Philharmony, i almost pulled the gun on an original release of that a few times. ended up getting (and loving) "Pacific".

also that label as a nice selection of stuff! i want to get Lee Hazlewood's "A Cowboy in Sweden" but apparently it's sold out.

tempted to get the 3xLP bundle (Paraiso, Philharmony, and Omni)!

Philharmony also has, of course, one of the very best covers of all time.

check the high res version here, along with lots of other cool hosono-relevant pics: http://lightintheattic.net/artist_press_images/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&artist_id=2475-haruomi-hosono

Fantastic news!

not a huge fan of Hosono House but I think I'll be picking up the other 4 on vinyl. he's too important of an artist to me, this is such a big void I have to fill. does anyone know what the 3xLPs are???

boom! so happy Omni Sight Seeing is coming on vinyl.

does anyone know what the 3xLPs are???

tempted to get the 3xLP bundle (Paraiso, Philharmony, and Omni)!

I listened to both Philharmony and Paraiso over the last week - so good. I still haven't heard Omni!

aha I get it now. the site doesn't really say what they are, I almost thought they were expanded versions. yeah I'll be getting that

had totally missed the fact that he's also going to be playing in brighton a couple of nights after the london show, except this time he's the main act:

http://theoldmarket.com/shows/haruomi-hosono/

so i guess i'm seeing him twice next month (sorry)

I listened to both Philharmony and Paraiso over the last week - so good. I still haven't heard Omni!

Oh man! Such a great record and Pleocene is one of the greatest songs from his post-YMO period.

https://youtu.be/-22NysUDulc?t=41m45s

Playing in London next month:

http://33-33.co/mode/

23.06
HARUOMI HOSONO + ACETONE
BARBICAN CENTRE
LONDON

Money's tight so I've been trying to talk myself out of buying these reissues. I decided to listen to the four albums in the reissue campaign I wasn't as familiar with (Cochin Moon is buy-on-sight for me and has been for years, no way I'm passing up a reissue). I haven't listened to Omni, Philharmony, or Paraiso since I discovered and downloaded them a few years ago, and have never heard Hosono House at all.

Paraiso holds up great, as do the great songs on Omni Sight Seeing (which justify the purchase of the album imo). But not sure what I ever saw in Philharmony. It's by no means a bad record, and is in some places actually quite good (I like "Luminescent / Hotaru" and "Sports Men"), but a lot of this just floats right by me. There are also a few obnoxious ones I could live without ever hearing again ("Platonic"), and stuff like "Birthday Party" and "In Limbo" just remind me why I don't listen to The Residents. That said, I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I know deep down I will probably buy 'em all. LITA always does such a great job on packaging. I don't care a lick about Lee Hazlewood, but I was actually tempted by how nice those reissues looked in the shop.

Am I the only one who really likes Pacific? Wonder if that will ever get a reissue.

i love Pacific

Omni Sight Seeing is wonderful. Prob my favorite of this trio of albums. I can do with just a little bit of HH's Nino Rota homages, though. I hope someone will reissue "The Tale Of Genji" and "Naga" soon!

key track on Philharmony for me is "LDK". such a catchy tune, plus the synth solo is just wild

if you haven't heard it, there's a duo called Kimonos whose cover of "Sportsmen" is absolutely perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi8futLRbM

I'm hoping all the Monads get a reissue. I have literally worn my copies out from over playing / over use in dj sets. Also hoping these aren't only being granted a US license for reissue as pre-order is not available outside US.