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Haruomi Hosono

Koi wa Momoiro / Fuku wa uchi Oni wa soto

Fuji

FJEP1003

7” Black $10 $20
  • Originally released in 1973
  • Features tracks from Hosono House

Description

Limited edition 7 inch with two tracks from Haruomi Hosono originally released in 1973.

Artist Bio

Van Dyke Parks, who first met Hosono in Los Angeles in 1972, compares his old friend to artists like Harry Nilsson and Ry Cooder, whose works are in categories all their own. “All of these nails that stuck out at that time were, to me, exemplary,” Parks said in a recent interview. “I heard that, in Japan, the tendency is to hammer down the nails that stick out. I think that Haruomi Hosono is a nail that sticks out. And has maintained that.”

Born and raised in central Tokyo as the grandson of the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic, Hosono’s young obsession with American pop culture informed his early forays into country and surf music. He made his professional debut in 1969 as a member of Apryl Fool, whose heavy psychedelia stood in contrast to his next group Happy End,...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Koi wa Momoiro
  • 2 Fuku wa uchi Oni wa soto