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Haruomi Hosono

Undercurrent (Original Soundtrack)

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KAKU-183

10" Black $25.50 $34
  • Pressed on 10" black vinyl
  • Soundtrack to the 2023 film by Rikiya Imaizumi
  • First time on vinyl!

Description

Haruomi Hosono's soundtrack for the movie "Undercurrent" (Director: Rikiya Imaizumi, Original story: Tetsuya Toyoda) has been reconstructed by his own hands! Now available on vinyl.

Note by Haruomi Hosono

”This is a re-creation of the images that accompanied the film "Undercurrent". For the film, I made the sound fragments as simple as possible, as close to the bare bones as possible.

I thought that if I made the sound scape complete, there would be no room for it to blend into the film. Therefore, it was necessary to reconstruct the world of the music when putting the album together.

However, I did not use any material other than what I created for the film. This is how I imagined "Undercurrent," a film where serenity and intensity coexist."

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 Bath & Frog
  • 2 Underwater
  • 3 Memory
  • 4 Lake
  • 5 Undercurrent
  • 6 Reverberation