''Hosono House'' is the debut solo album of Japanese musician

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, released on May 25, 1973.

Background and recording

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''. With this album, recording equipment technology had evolved enough for domestic recordings of good quality to be feasible, and going to the center of the city to reach a recording studio was somewhat inconvenient. The album was recorded for five hours every afternoon in a large bedroom in Hosono's residence in Sayama, Japan with a 16-track mixing console in his living room. The instruments were recorded unprocessed from the amplifiers in a small room, leading to the album's unique sound. Hosono continued to develop the tropical style of ''Hosono House'' in his following works, '' Tropical Dandy'' and ''

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Track listing

Personnel

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, Re-Mix Engineering * Masaki Nomura - Engineering ;Production * Shinzo Ishiura, WIND CORPORATION - Management * Ritsu Kamimura - Transportation * Misako Hosono - Cooking * Mitsunori Miura (for BELLWOOD RECORDS) - Executive Production * Masahiro Nogami - Photography * WORK SHOP MU!! - Art Direction * VERANSKY MIKKO MOKKO MINAKO, YAMAZAKI & Neighbour Foods - Special Thanks * CITY MUSIC CORPORATION -

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* ALFA MUSIC - Publishing for "Owari no Kisetsu" * SHINKO MUSIC - Publishing for "Aiaigasa" ;Reissue staff * Mitsunori Miura - Supervision * Ēji Ogura - Auxiliary Supervision * Masakazu Kitanaka - Liner Notes * Junichi Yamada - Liner Notes Editing * Hiroyuki Tsuji - Remastering Engineering * Approach - Design * Junichi Yamashita - Design Coordination * Katsumi Miyata & Jōwa Honda - A&R

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'': "The album is named after Haruomi Hosono, he had an album in the '70s called ''Hosono's House'', and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like 'I love that. ..It'd be really fun to make a record called ''Harry's House'''."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:HOSONO HOUSE 1973 albums 1973 debut albums Haruomi Hosono albums Japanese-language albums