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)
― chant down basildon (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
Playing in London next month:
http://33-33.co/mode/
23.06HARUOMI HOSONO + ACETONEBARBICAN CENTRELONDON
― willem, Thursday, 24 May 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 25 May 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
i love Pacific
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
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!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
Also hoping these aren't only being granted a US license for reissue as pre-order is not available outside US.
Oh fuck you're right and I hadn't spotted that - Paraioso, Philharmony and Omni Sight Seeing are all saying "Not Available to Customers Outside U.S." - ughhhhhh.....
Cochin Moon and Hosono House are though:
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4192-cochin-moon-uk-eu-versionhttps://lightintheattic.net/releases/4191-hosono-house-shipping-for-uk-eu-residents
― chant down basildon (NickB), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
Lol pic.twitter.com/qMAZ0uQqOj— Sam š§¢ (@fuiud) March 26, 2018
― flopson, Friday, 25 May 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
One of lifeās little surprises
― F# A# (ā), Friday, 25 May 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
that would suck to have been soooo close to collaborating on a legendary album, and the reason you didn't was diarrhea, plain and simple
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 25 May 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
London this eve, so excited for this.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:31 (five years ago) link
Fantastic! Enjoy and report back, please :)
― willem, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
TROPICAL DANDY WHEN
― J. Sam, Saturday, 23 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
got mixed up and thought it was tomorrow. only twigged a couple hours ago thanks to an fb alert, or else Iād have travelled up to the barbican tomorrow instead. but yes, excited!
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
I realise Acetone must have their fans who are probably just as excited but idg the running order, it's like going to see Joni Mitchell supporting Built To Spill or something.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
holyyyy shiiiit!!
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
way too excited after that to watch acetone, i only lasted one song
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
full report, please.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
okay so five piece band including upright bass player, haruomi on acoustic guitar. start off pretty loungey, not really what I was truly hoping for but it was very charming and nice. then they started swinging with some āboogie-oogie-oogieā and it all started to get quite rockānāroll and you realised just how good his band was. was getting super into it by that stage, just a really nice vibe. lounge cover of āradioactivityā! a great rockānāroll version of āsportsmenā! and then at the end, hosono asks for the house lights to be switched on and he calls for his friend takahashi to join him from the audience. and then they start playing a rockānāroll āabsolute ego danceā (correct me if Iām wrong there maresnest). and then halfway through, ryuichi wanders on stage and seizes partial control of the keyboards. absolutely start banging through the song, screech to a halt, crowd go fucking batshit, then off the go, no encore or anything and everyoneās just rubbing their eyes wondering wtf just happened
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
they all look in great shape btw, yukihiro was looking particularly suave in a suit and v dapper hat
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
wow, just wow! thanks.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Photo here (not my account)
Midway through a bit of YMO the man himself Ryuichi Sakamoto walks on stage to goose the keyboardist, crowd explodes. pic.twitter.com/DKm70CKFba— JAM (@JAMXCORE) June 23, 2018
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
and then at the end, hosono asks for the house lights to be switched on and he calls for his friend takahashi to join him from the audience. and then they start playing a rockānāroll āabsolute ego danceā
wtf!? no! that's amazing!
and then halfway through, ryuichi wanders on stage and seizes partial control of the keyboards. absolutely start banging through the song, screech to a halt, crowd go fucking batshit, then off the go, no encore or anything and everyoneās just rubbing their eyes wondering wtf just happened
wtf?!?! no!! that's amazing!!
that must have been a dream, holy shit
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
so thrilling! Iām still a gibbering wreck
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
poor quality clip here:
YMOåć å?ēļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ļ¼ in London #YMO #yellowmagicorchestra #ē“°éę“č£ #åę¬é¾äø #é«ę©å¹øå® #barbicancentre #london #hosonoharuomi #ryuichsakamoto #yukihirotakahashi pic.twitter.com/EJxBNkZl8X— Andrei Tarkovsky (@TarkovskyJP_bot) June 23, 2018
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Saturday, 23 June 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Fuuuuck Iām jealous
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
Everything NickB said basically, plus we got Keigo Oyamada on guitar for the last song, gotta admit it took me a few seconds to realise it was Absolute Ego Dance, I thought it was Cosmic Surfing at first.
The music was very much in the vein of the last two HH records, fifties rock n' roll, rockabilly feel, with his versions of Sports Men and Radioactivity, a great band indeed, young guys.
I think Light In The Attic saying in the blurb to the concert that he was going to be playing music from throughout his career was somewhat disingenuous, but it was great to see the man and of course, the last song was lush. Watching Yuki walk down the Barbican steps right towards me was a real giddy moment.
Yesterday I saw a pic taken from Instagram of the three of them allegedly in a London restaurant (Sakamoto played here a few days ago with Alvo Noto) so I was hoping that something was gonna go down.
One last thing, my mate's friend that we bumped into works in a record shop, he told us Oyamamda dropped in there and bought loads of Madness 7 inches :)
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
that's amazing!
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 24 June 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
finding it hsrd to comprehend how acetone managed to follow on from that!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 24 June 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
Hosono: https://i.imgur.com/ydBgTfA.jpg
Couldn't believe it when he asked the house lights to come up, and Takahashi and Cornelius stood up from the audience and starting coming down the steps towards the stage.
That rockabilly / boogie-woogie version of Sportsmen really worked. Not sure if there any of clips on it online. The Kraftwerk cover too.
As others have said, it felt too soon for Acetone to be starting after just a 15 minute break or so. Everyone was very excited after that ending to Hosono. Only about 30 - 40% of the crowd came back in for Acetone unfortunately, and some more left after a song or too. The band commented on how quiet it was on stage. Their performance was great, it's a pity the running order meant the place was less than half full.
― plazzTT, Monday, 25 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
Hosono band was:
Haruomi Hosono (vocals, guitar)Ren Takada (guitar, mandolin, banjo)Wataru Iga (bass)Daichi Ito (drums)Takuji Nomura (keyboards, piano, accordian)
― plazzTT, Monday, 25 June 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
where I was sitting there were quite a few japanese people, including families with kids, and a lot of them didnāt stick around for acetone.
trying to remember some of the things that harry said: āI used to make techno music, but now...ā *launches into another boogie-woogie number*; the Kraftwerk cover was introduced by some words about 3/11, 2011, which was of course the date of the tohoku earthquake and tsunami
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Monday, 25 June 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
am immensely lucky to be seeing him again in Brighton tonight btw. headlining this time, but another ymo get together would be way too much to hope for
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Monday, 25 June 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
Maybe he'll bust out some older numbers given that he has a bigger window to play in.
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 June 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
from the running times it looks like he's on for two hours, so i guess it depends on how bad he needs to boogie-woogie-oogie
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
wow this is amazing!!
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Just noticed Takahashi is in Brighton! Did you get a replay of Saturday Nick?
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 June 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
yes, takahashi was in the audience again last night but sadly he didn't join hosono on stage this time round. set was a similar mix of lounge/brazilian/jump blues/boogie woogie type stuff, think i enjoyed it even more this time round though - was nice to see that music being played in a much more intimate setting, i think it suited the scale of the music better. also it was a really lovely warm night by the seaside, made me think of how some of the older songs would have originally been taken round the world by boat, from one noisy port to another. hosono seemed to be enjoying himself despite some minor crackily guitar issues, was joking around saying stuff like 'i'm old... i'm boring...' *crowd make sounds of gentle protestation* '...leave me alone'. 'radio activity' cover was really great, done slowly with this eerie, creeping sense of unease, which got ratcheted up to slint-esque levels of tension towards the end. encore was a version of 'tokio rush' featuring two girls on vocals that apparently he'd only just met earlier that day - they did an amazing job but all the same it was no 'absolute ego dance'. a great night though!
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
here's the setlist btw:
From aya_bebop on Instagram pic.twitter.com/skgGVMjkDN— callie magic orchestra (@konchugun) June 26, 2018
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
Amazing! Tokyo Rush too!
It's been really curious having these legendary old gentlemen, whom I admire so much, in our relative airspace for a few days, to me at least, they seem to exist in another plane the rest of the time. Seeing things like Takahashi wandering around London and Brighton via FB has been lovely.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
indeed, a thrill to briefly exchange respiratory gases with them!
that 'house of blue lights' was fire btw, that's the one where the band took solos - a few bars of brilliant splashy fireworks from the drummer, the bass player forced to go deep when hosono pulled up a chair and sat and watched him work. good excuse to revisit this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeHTFlkBBcM
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
I love that clip, talk about someone who has figured out how to live.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
kinda love how Keigo Oyamada has been palling around with these guys for over a decade now. that's one cool thing about Japan, it's such a small country geographically so all these people kinda know each other. I recognize some of those names upthread as having played with YT in a different group.
I've heard that there are some plans for YMO's 40th anniversary year, including perhaps a HH documentary. apparently some of the concertgoers were being interviewed outside the venue. couldn't buy that fast enough.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
The Barbican gig was being filmed, very discreetly but there were notices saying so.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
Happy 71st Birthday!
― MaresNest, Sunday, 8 July 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Lookit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtNpj_n82o
― MaresNest, Sunday, 15 July 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
Haha that's even shonkier than I remember it
― Category: Animist Rock (Matt #2), Sunday, 15 July 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
Not sure which is the best thread to post this on as there's a few YMO ones to choose from. Anyway, I just listened to Parallelisme by Miharu Koshi for the first time and I am blown away. One of the best albums I've heard with a connection to the YMO family. My heart is breaking checking the prices for it on Discogs.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 28 July 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link