#haroumi hosono

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Tropical Dandy - Haroumi Hosono/トロピカル・ダンディ - 細野晴臣 (1975 Review)

Finally getting around to listen to this album as I'm listening to more albums on my computer as of late. Not to mention this album isn't on Spotify yet somehow auto-generated on Youtube, weird. Anyways, for those not in the know, Haroumi Hosono is a Japanese Musician known for playing a pivotal role in the history of Japanese Popular music, or J-pop for short. From his folk rock era with Apryl Fool and Happy End, to his exotica infused solo career, to completely changing Electronic Music with Yellow Magic Orchestra, he has remained an important figure head in the native popular music scene. However, in the mid-70s, Hosono wasn't that well known in the mainstream at the time, still being an underground musician. This album in particular is his second album following the 1973 debut Hosono House, this album explores more of the tropical vibes the first album offered, though Hosono House is more Folk/Country. Now Tropical Dandy is enjoyable at best. The opening cover of Chattanooga Choo Choo has a catchy feel to it, Hurricane Dorothy is okay, Silk Road is forgettable and even saying that feels like an understatement, Tropical Night is a relaxing slow vibe, Peking duck is a solid above-mid track, Honey Moon is bland though not as forgettable as Silk Road, and Three o Clock Lullaby is a relaxing way to end the album, though the instrumental version that's the next track perfects it with the strings. Light 8/10 *Listen to the album here*

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Anyway if you want a taste of what Styles was trying to go for but like is actually well executed, and mind you done well before him, listen to the entirety of 834.194 (2019) by sakanaction, songs like jikanga nai by KIRINJI, literally like anything by Yukika, the Hologram ep by Key of Shinee (there are definitely dashes of New Jack Swing here as well), as modern examples. Or hell listen to the founding fathers and icons of Japanese synth pop and city pop like Haroumi Hosono, YMO, P-Model, Eiichi Ohtaki, Yumi Arai, Mariya Takeuchi, etc like I could go on...

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ELECTRIQUE BOUTIQUE #10, 3/22/24

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Welcome to the double digits! It's a fun episode tonight, lots of wild tracks, and my dad makes a guest appearance. Listen every other Friday at 6-8 PM PST on 104.9 KHUH Hollow Earth Radio, or streaming on hollowearthradio.org

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0:03:25 Viv's Dad (and friend) - Black or White?

0:07:06 Karen Marks - Cold Café

0:10:03 Cha Cha Guitri - Non non non

0:13:04 Elegant Unease - Time

0:16:59 Guerre froide - Demain Berlin

0:24:26 New German Cinema - Being Dead

0:27:45 Dream Sequence - Jacqueline

0:30:18 Laraaji - I Can Only Bliss Out (F'days)

0:35:49 Cold Colors - Clear Memory

0:39:45 Squid Diddley - Always There

0:45:02 T. Dyson & Company - It's All Over

0:48:22 La Sellrose Can Can - Aerobicise

0:52:01 Danielle Boutet - Antichambre

0:54:36 Cumbia en Moog - Cumbia de Sal

0:58:06 Carla dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars

1:03:45 Yishak Banjaw - Libey Ma'aduley

1:08:00 De Ambassade - Niet Van Mij

1:11:58 Angie - Scheue Treue

1:15:11 Superdude - Face the Music (Sound Track)

1:19:20 Nightfall in Camp - Cada Día

1:22:18 Haroumi Hosono - Sports Men

1:29:09 Ceramic Hello - Symphony Of Shudders

1:31:28 Mount Eerie - Wooly Mammoth's Mighty Absence

1:34:37 Bizarre Leidenschaft - Bizarre L

1:37:52 Angel Rada - Panico a Las 5Am

1:43:24 Admas - Anchi Bale Game

1:48:37 Broadcast - Come On Let's Go (BBC Evening Session)

1:56:16 Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)

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13, 30 & 38 for the ask game! <3

i just finished this entire ask and then accidentally deleted the tab for tumblr instead of wikipedia. welp. have my second round of answering this :)

13. what are you doing right now?

i had just got home when i started this ask originally, but now ive been sitting down for a while chilling. thinking abt spreadsheeting but also maybe having an early shower. decisions to be made.

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you

it’ll sound cheesy but watching funny videos on youtube. it’s very easy to forget how much a laugh can boost my mood. if im feeling like laying on the floor numb, i can put on a ‘funniest smosh you laugh you lose compilation’ and just feel warmer inside.

also cheesy but going outside and feeling the sun on my skin. less accessible at night and/or winter, but alas it works well. mother nature my beloved.

38. Fav song at the moment?

just one?? impossible

Eros and Apollo by Studio Killers

(turns out they also did the ‘i wanna ruin our friendship’ song. Wild). little to say except i love the way they sing ‘Senoritas don’t follow him’. very nice. i can and will loop this for hours.

In Bloom by ZeroBaseOne

Im always surprised by how much serotonin i get from this song. like the chorus makes me smile everytime i hear it. the instrumentals on it are Beautuful. my favs also get good lines which is a bonus (Taerae adlibs my beloved)

the final chorus is also OMG wonderful. i’m listening to it rn if you couldn’t guess. top 3 zb1 songs EZ

Cosmic Surfin’ by Haroumi Hosono

this is like the most satisfying sensory song to listen to. like. the name fits it in a wierd way. that’s the soundscape going on. give it a listen tbh bc i can’t name a lot of songs that sound similar. (also the album it’s on is a certified masterpiece). lovely study/focus song !

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Also, so you know, the band is Klark Sound. If you like the Lemon Twigs, Happy End (or Haroumi Hosono), James Taylor, Fleet Foxes, or just generally 70s jazzy tunes, then I'm sure you'll like him too.

Met a guy from a band I like and he hugged me, we chatted, and got his autograph. Feeling like @eddie-rifff right now, this has never happened to me before.

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A Japanese commercial featuring four designers from Memphis Milano, namely Ettore Sottssas, Andrea Branzi, Michele De Lucchi and George Sowden for Seibu, a chain of department stores.

Another tidbit, the music for the commercial was composed by Haroumi Hosono of YMO.

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Haroumi Hosono at work.

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#723 - BGM - Yellow Magic Orchestra

All three of those dudes are better solo and slowed down.

Ignore me.

69/100

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Reverberation #359 1. Woo - The English Style of Rowing 2. Domenique Dumont - Le Château de Corail 3. Francis Monkman - Stargazing 4. I Mark IV - Tanto Iontano 5. Haroumi Hosono & Miharu Koshi - Hotel Etoiles 6. Tony Rubio - Dead Slow 7. James Clark - Life Cycle 2 8. John Fiddy - Dream Fantasy 9.  L’Eclair - Coke Mountain

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Bon Voyage Co. - Haroumi Hosono/泰安洋行 - 細野晴臣 (1976 Review)

Haroumi Hosono's third studio album, again exploring the world of Tropical and Exotica music with hints of electronic elements. I actually enjoyed this album a lot more than Tropical Dandy; the album does start off weak unfortunately, and much like the self-titled New Edition album the opening track is the weakest here. It does take a while to get to the good stuff, but when it hits IT HITS. Tokyo Shyness Boy is a great song with a nice brassy groove to it, and the title track is a beautiful instrumental jam with wonderful sounding Marimbas. The closing track as well I really enjoyed, Exotica Lullaby, even though it's not a lullaby at all, however the outro made me bump up the song in my ranking a bit. Loved the vibe here more than Tropical Dandy, even though the album was much Bottom Heavy then it was top heavy Decent 8/10

Listen to the album here

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What I find most astoundingly hilarious though is that if you want to disregard the inherit misogynoir Beyonce has dealt with at and outside the Grammys (which is wild to do in the first place, acting like she hasn't is just being willfully obtuse and racist), if you OBJECTIVELY listen to both albums being discussed here Renaissance just absolutely annihilates Styles'.

There is far more musical complexity and quality there, and what's genuinely commendable about that complexity is that the genuine love and care for the genres and cultures being utilized to give the album its depth absolutely shines through. This is a sonic love letter to Black queer music scapes and cultures like house, dance, disco, etc. And the sounds being utilized here are both masterfully respected and modernized. People have always shit on Beyonce collaborative process, but Beyonce isn't collaborating with JUST anyone and that in itself has assured that her music isn't shlock to be forgotten after an albums initial crescendo in popularity. It has well formulated longevity and impact at multiple levels. SHE makes deliberate and brilliant choices as to who is making music with her, what these concepts are about, how to execute those concepts, and the level at which she wants her concepts executed, which can't be said for most popular acts. She has genuinely carved out an undeniable career and sound that's her own, that is artistic. Only a few artists in the popular sphere have managed this. Why this isn't seen as commendable is a simple matter of ignorance in how the music world works, especially the "pop music world".

Like production wise, my biggest problem with Styles over the years is that most of his music just sounds like a pale imitation of old sounds he's a fan of, like its usually well mixed and all that, but its shit I've heard before and better at that, sometimes even from like a decade ago (particularly peeved about this last album because of the Japanese city pop influence that I've literally heard Japanese bands utilize masterfully since like fucking 2009, Sakanation and KIRINJI to name a few). He never utilizes these sounds to say or do anything truly new or impactful, and at the very least, these sounds don't even deliver on doing justice to these influencing sounds (again, for this 3rd album city pop and synth pop were major influences, the album is even named after Haroumi Hosono's Hosono's House, although that album is more in line with Styles previous two album I'd say). They feel like the sonic equivalent of a generic brand of snacks that's missing the taste you like from the name brand or something. And this isn't even getting into the lyrical weakness of most of his work that people keep propping up against Beyonce. And yes as a former songwriter, it IS commendable when people write their own lyrics yes, but that fact alone shouldn't automatically equate lyricism with quality.

It's funny because ultimately both these albums are homages to older and now blossoming sounds that are finding their way into the larger mostly white pop landscape, only, one has executed this with finesse while the other is just a sort of ok attempt.

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Haroumi Hosono (1984)

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Water Delay System designed by Haroumi Hosono

insert with record Danzindan-Pojidon by Inoyama Land (1983)

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3, 4, 5, and 30 for the vinyl asks!

3. Without looking up each one on discogs, it's probably The French Dispatch soundtrack album I bought last year and a Mexico City printing of The Monkees Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. I just got in Oaxaca, which has a different cover and titles in Spanish. My dad has a copy of Master of Reality with the original poster in it (he actually was at Black Sabbath's first US show lol), and I think that might be worth something.

4. I love a $2 bin record, so it's probably Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme. I also have the Woodstock album in really cruddy shape.

5. Hmm, my favorite. I love love the cardboard box of Muscle of Love, so that's my favorite cover. I think RAM is my favorite album to listen to that I own.

30. I would love to get a copy of Kazemachi Roman by Happy End (Japanese folk rock band w/ Haroumi Hosono) and The Woods Band self-titled. I'm also always looking to round out my Alice Cooper collection. Also on my list (I keep one for reference) are Kate Bush albums (I have none), Blackout by Scorpions, and Joy of a Toy by Kevin Ayers.