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Haruomi Hosono

Music for Films 2020-2021

Speedstar Records

VIJL-60275

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  • Exclusive Releases
  • Covering Haruomi Hosono's film music in recent year
  • Featuring the theme song for his new live documentary film "Sayonara America"

Description

Haruomi Hosono releases three works simultaneously, featuring recent movie music! The theme song for his new live documentary, "SAYONARA AMERICA," is a self-cover of Happy End's "Goodbye America Goodbye Nippon" titled "Sayonara America, Sayonara Nippon." The documentary "Goodbye America" premieres on November 12th. This collection includes the new song recorded during the film's production, as well as tracks from the 2019 documentary "NO SMOKING." It also features songs from "Malu Yumeji," the Netflix film "She," and the short film "+81 FILM (Gravity)." For the first time, all songs are packaged together, with "She" and "+81 FILM (Gravity)" making their debut as sound sources.

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 Sayonara America
  • 2 No Smoking - From the movie “NO SMOKING”
  • 3 Smoko Memories - From the movie “NO SMOKING”
  • 4 Indigo - From the movie “Her”
  • 5 Indigo (Altered mix) - From the movie “Her”
  • 6 Gravity - From the short film “+81FILM”
  • 7 Island - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 8 Dark Makeup (Image) - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 9 Ketsui - Determined - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 10 Followed - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 11 Memories - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 12 Flashback - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 13 Snow/Incident - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”
  • 14 Malu-Yumeji - From the movie “Malu Yumeji”