many thanks! my tape arrived last week and i've been enjoying walking about listening to it immensely. it seems very fitting reading these notes that i have been 'moving around' lots while listening.
― stirmonster, Monday, 21 December 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
have really loved reading these interviews & notes in the reissues, it's the first time I've been able to get a sense of what he's like as a person
amusingly the new issue of Sakamoto's Left Handed Dream mentions that their differences had to do mostly with the use of electronics and synthesizers, I guess Sakamoto felt that HH's electronic stuff was too inhuman & weird and would not date well. which is amusing now because arguably Hosono's sound has held up incredibly well with a host of imitators, while albums like Left Handed Dream are the ones that sound stuck in their time
― frogbs, Monday, 21 December 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
new years eve w/ harry:
https://www.nts.live/shows/nye-with-nts/episodes/haruomi-hosono-31st-december-2020
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Yay! Thanks everso
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
how is it that Light in the Attic haven't repressed the Swing Slow album
― frogbs, Monday, 11 January 2021 05:40 (three years ago) link
indeed. my top Hosono want.
― stirmonster, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
that and the Love, Peace and Trance album both seem like they'd be pretty popular reissues in the current climate, I'd have to imagine LitA or Great Tracks or Turntable Lab or someone is at least trying
― frogbs, Monday, 11 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
cursed or blessed image??
https://i.imgur.com/PGGrN6v.png
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
Harry be making some house music
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
hosono house music 2https://i.imgur.com/c492iJJ.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Honestly though, he's a total Zelig, look at all the different pics of him from Apryl Fool/Happy End though to now, dude has had more phases than Bowie.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
if you need a reason to smile today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWL3N56OQ4
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Wicked! Thank you frogbs
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
He's got the twang down to a tee <3
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
<3 excellent
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
It's killing me that there is a 500-page book about HH and co out there and I cannot, and most likely will not ever read it.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%96%80%E9%96%93-%E9%9B%84%E4%BB%8B/dp/416391207X/ref=rtpb_7?pd_rd_w=MhsLf&pf_rd_p=c221ae92-96f8-424c-884c-196b2fc439b0&pf_rd_r=DNW6WF4FSQV8VYADV5FD&pd_rd_r=6fa90e55-7fba-4bd8-8556-3da5be9f2b05&pd_rd_wg=m9p1X&pd_rd_i=416391207X&psc=1
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:03 (three years ago) link
There also seems to be some series of books coming out about YMO that deals with them year by year I could be wrong mind.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link
Jesus... That book! Google translating that made me even sadder there's no translation:
The definitive critique of musician Haruomi Hosono!What did he produce with "Happy End," "Tin Pan Array," and "YMO"?"I can't talk anymore."Haruomi Hosono
"I can't talk anymore."Haruomi Hosono
Hosono otm.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
i see the Monads are getting a reissue - https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/172659
expensive!
― stirmonster, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
S-F-X too
https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/172659
― stirmonster, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
Hosono records are never cheap (besides Cochin Moon) but even still those prices are insane. $80 before shipping?? christ. wonder if someone else is gonna offer them for cheaper.
― frogbs, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
yeah., i am very disappointed in the whole reissue series. i mean, i'll stream it, but i am someone who was eager to fork over $20-25/each for like a bajillion different hosono records. guess i'll just give hosono like 5 streaming cents instead
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
hard to blame them too much for the high prices of the other stuff, vinyl is always expensive in Japan and really LitA's prices are about what you'd pay there + like $7-10 to import. but these are like $20-30 beyond even that, which just feels exploitative, given some of these (particularly Mercuric Dance) fetch $150-200 on the secondary market. would be really nice if they'd license them to some American company to actually press it themselves. if LitA offers them at $40-50 I'll probably grab them with my Bidenbucks, just because I've wanted them for so damn long
― frogbs, Friday, 19 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
definitely gonna start saying bidenbux
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
goddamn freemium games
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
looks like the 2019 US show will be coming to vinyl as well
https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/news/article/2104071044/
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
fun album!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
The Monad reissues were pulled from the Phonica page. Apparently they're Japan RSD exclusives and can't be sold until 7/17. Good news though is LitA apparently will try to sell a few copies:
https://lightintheattic.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=hosono
I'm sure they'll be expensive, but maybe not as bad as previously thought
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
just found out today that Hosono apparently composed some music for a Japanese kids TV show in 2006. apparently Miharu Koshi and Akiko Yano are on the soundtrack too. can't find it but I did come across two tracks on YouTube, they're surprisingly great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiAX37XQPwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3QK_2qn_M
(I think the second one is AY with Hosono arranging)
― frogbs, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
The first is Mei Kurokawa and is in the Japanese Pops Of Haruomi Hosono box set.
― visiting, Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
nice!! thanks for finding that!! I have become obsessed with it today.
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 May 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
paging: Karl Malone
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ymostream/permalink/4466977030014084/
Haruomi Hosono interview from the endless talking, the episode of the s′′ I started smoking the so-called glass (the meaning of marijuana, cannabis) during the session. Happy also I didn't do much at any time, but I just happen to like that kind of thing at that time ′′There is a picture of a hijab party on the jacket of Masato Minami's album that hosono-San participated in the time and session. I was originally interested in spiritual, and I was experiencing a musician's unique drug. Happy birthday, but even during the ting pan array activity, I don't say I don't do drugs at all, so the concept of the utopia of the yellow magic band name ′′ off ′′ that I participated in by professor and xìng hóng is actually the other side It's a real original world, not a scavenger, made by hosono-San, who knew it. The ending hosono-San's hurrah ′′ this next is more better!" is staggering." I'm going to connect to hosono-San and ymo who try anything because I like pleasure."
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
wait...WHAT?!?!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
what's crazy is that i refreshed about 12 seconds after you posted it, so it really was like a pager :D
of course, this is my job
I guess that means I have to get blazed and listen to all his records again. ha ha ha, as if I haven't been doing that anyway
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
was at The Exclusive Company in Milwaukee and they had 4 of his records - his 3 latest and The Aegean Sea. not gonna pay that much for covers, but still, kind of surreal to see them
― frogbs, Sunday, 23 May 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
We Want Sounds reissuing three Makoto Kubota albums on vinyl. Listening to Dixie Fever rn on their bandcamp and it's lush.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 18 June 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
Hosono on NTS right now picking fave records.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 20 June 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
first of all, it's his 74th birthday today. I for one have been listening to Hosono records all day, how about you??
secondly, I just discovered this has a video and that indeed Hosono did have a ponytail in the mid-90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU6mWac-h4w
― frogbs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
Happy Birthday, HH!
I posted this elsewhere and it may not be accessible from certain places, so apologies in advance, but it's a really interesting BBC Radio documentary about Kankyō Ongaku - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xdwh
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 10 July 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Oh nice! I’m gonna give that a shot via VPN
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 10 July 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
allow me to brag for a moment and show this off. not to get all Steve Hoffman-y but this pressing is totally amazing, lotta stuff I never noticed on my MP3 copy
https://i.imgur.com/XkEOqsT.jpg
is this the one album of his that doesn't really stick to a particular sound? every track seems to invoke a different locale. honestly I think this might be his very best record. it's so melodically rich and weird. it combines his tropical, ambient, and technopop periods into one. it's one of those rare albums that really is an intersection of everything that makes an artist great at once. like for all the music he made between 82-85 this is like 4 years of ideas in one record. and it has "Pleocene".
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
Jealous! OSS is one of his best and yeah, it has 'Pleocene', easily my favourite HH song, even if he sounds a little like Kermit the frog :)
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 24 July 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link
Every time he covers a song it comes off like he’s mocking it, in part because of that voice. Like idk if “Caravan” is supposed to be funny but it makes me laugh
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I associate Hosono's voice with Levon Helm - I guess they and Kermit The Frog are all contemporaries, lotta mutual influencing happening.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
caravan is a cover of like a 40s tin pan alley thing innit? i like it
― clouds, Sunday, 25 July 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
it's a duke ellington song from the mid 1930s and must be one of thee most covered pieces of music of all time. it became an exotica classic which is possibly what drew hosono to it.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
His Funiculì, Funiculà is really beautiful tho'
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
I really like the drum programming on the F.O.E. stuff
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link