, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a

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musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in

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music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for decades as well as pop music outside of Japan. He also inspired genres such as

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and

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, and as leader of

Yellow Magic Orchestra Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO for short) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals). The group is conside ...

, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous

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genres. The grandson of ''

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'' survivor

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, Haruomi began his career with the

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band Apryl Fool, before achieving recognition both nationally and internationally, as a founding member of the bands Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles, including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums. As well as recording his own music, Hosono has done considerable production work for other artists such as

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, Sheena and the Roketts,

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Chisato Moritaka (born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group.

and

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. In 2003, Hosono was ranked by

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at number 44 on their list of the top 100 Japanese pop acts of all time.

Biography

Hosono is the grandson of

, the only Japanese passenger and survivor of the sinking of RMS ''Titanic''. Hosono first came to attention in Japan as the bass player of the

band Apryl Fool, alongside drummer Takashi Matsumoto, who released the album ''The Apryl Fool'' in 1969. Hosono and Matsumoto then formed the influential

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group Happy End with

Eiichi Ohtaki Eiichi Ohtaki (July 28, 1948 – December 30, 2013) was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member of the rock band Happy End, but was better known for his solo work which began in 1972. ...

and

Shigeru Suzuki is a Japanese musician, songwriter and guitarist. He first became known as a member of the influential rock band Happy End in the early 1970s, before starting a solo career and becoming a prolific session musician. As of 2006, Suzuki had contr ...

. One of the songs he composed for Happy End, " Kaze wo Atsumete" (1971), later appeared in the American film '' Lost in Translation'' and on its soundtrack in 2003. After ''Happy End'' disbanded around 1974, Hosono worked with Suzuki and a loose association of artists making "

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"-style music under the title ''Tin Pan Alley''. His involvement in

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also dates back to the early 1970s, when he performed the

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for

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's folk

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album ''Ice World'' (1973) and

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's progressive/psychedelic rock album ''

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'' (1974), both of which were

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records utilizing synthesizers, electric guitars, and in the latter,

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s and rhythm machines. In 1977, Hosono invited

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and

Yukihiro Takahashi Yukihiro Takahashi (高橋幸宏 ''Takahashi Yukihiro'', born June 6, 1952) is a Japanese musician, singer, record producer and actor, who is best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the fo ...

to work on his

-flavoured album '' Paraiso'', which included electronic music produced using the

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and

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synthesizer. The band was named "Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band" and, having been recorded in late 1977, ''Paraiso'' was released in early 1978. The three worked together again for the 1978 electronic album ''Pacific'', which included an early version of the song "Cosmic Surfin'". In 1978, he released an innovative electronic soundtrack for a

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film, ''Cochin Moon'', together with artist

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and future YMO band members Ryuichi Sakamoto and

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. Inspired by a trip to

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and "the exotic, luxurious, and seemingly wonder-filled scenarios played out in Indian cinemas", it was an experimental "electro-exotica" album fusing exotic

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(reminiscent of

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and

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) with electronic music, including an early "

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" song entitled "Hum Ghar Sajan" (from a

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phrase). The same year, he contributed to Sakamoto's song "1000 Knives" for his solo album, '' Thousand Knives'', which experimented with fusing electronic music with traditional

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in early 1978. He was one of the first producers to recognize the appeal of video game sounds and music. YMO's self-titled debut in 1978 contained substantial video game sounds and after YMO disbanded an early project was an album simply titled ''Video Game Music'' containing mixed and edited

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music and sounds. ''Video Game Music'' was released in 1984 as an early example of a

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record and the first video game music album. That same year, he also produced the theme song for

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's popular

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film ''

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'', "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", with vocals by actress-singer

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. In the late 80s and early 90s, the influence of world music on his music deepened, and he worked with international singers and musicians such as

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. He has produced a number of short-term band projects as a band member. His first post-YMO band was Friends of Earth. As with most of his projects he combines musical styles he's interested in. F.O.E. seemed to be a combination of funk and techno, and included a collaboration with

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and

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for a remake of the song "

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". Another notable band project was 1995's Love, Peace & Trance. Members were

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("Love"), Miyako Koda ("Peace"), Haruomi Hosono ("&") and Mishio Ogawa ("Trance"). In the 1990s he started the

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label to release a wide range of experimental artists from Japan and the rest of the world. Hosono collaborated on many of the releases, such as

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, a trip into Americana; HAT, a supergroup (the acronym stands for Hosono,

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), and "Quiet Logic", by

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and Jonah Sharp.

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also paid tribute with a series of remixes including the notorious "Hope You Choke on Your Whalemeat". YMOHosono2008(cropped)

In 2002 Haruomi formed the duo

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with his YMO bandmate

. They have released two albums, one of which, ''Loophole'', has received a UK release. When the third former YMO member,

deepened his involvement it was decided to bill those collaborations as

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. In the spring of 2007, his fellow YMO members and other artist paid tribute to Haruomi with a 2-disc album titled ''Tribute to Haruomi''. That same year, the animated film ''

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'' was released featuring a soundtrack performed and supervised by Hosono. In September 2010 he performed at the De La Fantasia festival and played songs from his upcoming album. In February 2011 it was announced that his new album, entitled ''HoSoNoVa'', was to be released on April 20. He also performed a special concert to celebrate its release. In May 2018,

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announced a CD and vinyl reissue of five of Hosono's albums—''Hosono House'', ''Cochin Moon'', ''Paraiso'', ''Philharmony'' and ''omni Sight Seeing''—for release in August and September 2018. The former four albums had never been released outside of Japan previously. Coinciding was the announcement that Hosono would play his first UK concerts as a solo artist in June; the shows were scheduled as part of Sakamoto's MODE festival happening throughout England in June and July. The June 23 concert at the

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in London featured an appearance by his YMO bandmates, with whom he performed his ''Solid State Survivor'' composition "Absolute Ego Dance". 2019 marked Hosono's 50th anniversary in the music industry. On March 6, he released ''Hochono House'', a mostly electronic remake of his solo debut ''

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'' that reversed the track listing. That spring, he performed his first solo shows in the U.S. This run included two sold-out shows at the

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in New York City and a concert at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles. The second New York show saw an appearance by current NYC resident

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, who collaborated with Hosono in Tin Pan Alley, as a live support member of YMO, and as a solo artist; she sang Hosono's "Ai Ai Gasa", which she covered on her 1977 album ''Iroha Ni Konpeitou''. In LA, Canadian indie rock musician

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—whose vocal admiration of Hosono has spread to a portion of his own fanbase—appeared during the show to perform "Honey Moon" as a duet with Hosono; Light in the Attic had recently released a cover of the song on a 7" single record, backed with the original version. In the autumn of 2019, an exhibition on Hosono's career—"Hosono Sightseeing"—was on display in Tokyo Sky View at the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower; along with other memorabilia, this featured many of the instruments associated with Hosono, such as the Roland TR-808,

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, and

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. A documentary film, ''No Smoking'', was also released, including footage from the U.S. and UK shows; appearances include Sakamoto, Takahashi, Demarco, longtime friend

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, and protégé

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Bands and collaborations

* Apryl Fool * Happy End * Tin Pan Alley *

* Friends of Earth (F.O.E) (with Eiki Nonaka) * HIS (with Kiyoshirō Imawano and

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) * Testpattern (with

, Fumio Ichimura, and Masao Hiruma) * Love, Peace & Trance (

, Miyako Koda and Mishio Ogawa) * Swing Slow (with

) * HAT (with

and

) * Harry & Mac (with Makoto Kubota) * Tin Pan (with Tatsuo Hayashi and Shigeru Suzuki) *

(with

) * HASYMO (previously Human Audio Sponge) (Sketch Show and

, with

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, Hiroshi Takano,

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, Tomohiko Gondō and Ren Takada as live support)

Discography

Albums

*''

'' (1973) *'' Tropical Dandy'' (1975, as Haruomi "Hosono") * (1976, as Harry "The Crown" Hosono) * (1978, by "Harry Hosono and The Yellow Magic Band") * (1978, by "Hosono &

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") *'' Philharmony'' (1982) *'' (1984, cassette book) *''Making of Non-Standard Music''/''Making of Monad Music'' (1984) *'' S-F-X'' (1984, by "Haruomi Hosono with Friends of Earth") *''Mercuric Dance'' (1985) *''Endless Talking'' (1985) *'' Omni Sight Seeing'' (1989) *''Medicine Compilation'' (1993) *''Mental Sports Mixes'' (1993) *''Good Sport'' (1995) *''Naga'' (1995) *''N.D.E. ("Near Death Experience")'' (1995) *'' Interpieces Organization'' (1996, by Haruomi Hosono &

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) * (1999, with Makoto Kubota as "Harry & Mac") *''Flying Saucer 1947'' (2007, by "Harry Hosono & The World Shyness") *''HoSoNoVa'' (2011) *''Heavenly Music'' (2013) *''Vu Ja De'' (2017) *''Hochono House'' (2019) *'' Hosono Haruomi Live in US 2019'' (2021)

Soundtrack albums

* ''Video Game Music'' (1984, songs from

games arranged and produced by Hosono) * (1984,

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, only produced theme song sung by

) *'' Coincidental Music'' (1985, compilation of assorted background music/soundtrack commissions) * ' (1985, movie soundtrack) * ''Paradise View'' (1985, movie soundtrack) * ' (1987, movie soundtrack) * (1996, background music for and included with the Taro Manabe picture book of the same name) * ''La Maison de Himiko'' (2005, movie soundtrack) * '' Ex Machina Original Soundtrack/Original Soundtrack Complete Edition'' (2007, soundtrack supervention, composition of some tracks) * ''

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'' (2018) Original Soundtrack

Compilation albums

* Hosono Box 1969–2000 (2000, Daisyworld) * Harry Hosono Crown Years 1974–1977 (2007)

Tribute albums

* Tribute to Haruomi Hosono (2007, Commmons) ::Featuring:

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, Hiroshi Takano,

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, Cornelius, Jim O'Rourke, Kahimi Karie * Strange Song Book – Tribute to Haruomi Hosono 2 (2008, Commmons) ::Featuring:

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Contributions

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Tatsuro Yamashita , occasionally credited as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the style of Japanese Soft rock, adult-oriented rock/soft rock music. His most well-known song is "C ...

) (tracks 1, 4 and 8 composed and performed by Hosono) (1978) **The Aegean Sea (with

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and Takahiko Ishikawa) (tracks 3 and 4 composed and performed by Hosono) (1979) **Vol. 1 – Island Music (with Suzuki, Yamashita, Matsutoya, Ishikawa and

) (tracks 1, 7, 9 and 10 composed and performed by Hosono) (1983) **Vol. 2 – Off Shore (Suzuki, Yamashita, Matsutoya, Sakamoto, Masaki Matsubara and Kazumasa Akiyama) (tracks 1 and 2 composed and performed by Hosono) (1983) *''Melon Brains'' (1994) *''Goku'' (1995) * Love, Peace & Trance (1995) *''Lattice'' (2000)

Composition work

* : ::High School Lullaby ( ハイスクールララバイ) (1981) :: (1982) *

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: ::仏蘭西映画 ::夢・恋・人 (1983) ::妖星傅 ::春 Mon Amour *

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: (1982) * Starbow: (1982) * Kumiko Yamashita: ::赤道小町ドキッ (1982) ::Teenage Eagles (1983) * Kawakamisan to Nagashimasan: きたかチョーさんまってたドン (1983) *

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: :: (1983) :: *

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, Yuji Miyake and other artists): :: (1984, Alfa) :: (1984, Alfa) *

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Filmography

;Music * ''Evening Primrose'' (1974) * ''Summer Secret'' (1982) * ''

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'' (1985) * ''Paradise View'' (1985) * '' A Promise'' (1986) * ''Jazz Daimyō'' (1986) * ''Murasaki SHikubu-Genji Monogatari'' (1987) * ''Hoshi wo Tsugumono'' (1990) * ''Southern Winds'' (1993) * ''On the Way'' (2000) * '' House of Himiko'' (2005) * ''

'' (2007, Music supervising director) * ''

'' (2018) ;Acting * ''

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'' (1983) * ''A Y.M.O. Film Propaganda'' (1984) * ''Paradise view'' (1985) * ''Shigatsu no Sakana'' (1985) * ''Binetsu Shōnen'' (1987) * '' Norwegian Wood'' (2010): Record Shop Manager * ''

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'' (2018): Scrap (japanese dub) * ''They Say Nothing Stays the Same'' (2019) * ''Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses'' (2021, TV miniseries): Barber ;Documentary appearance * ''No Smoking'' (2019)

Related books

References

External links

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Haruomi Hosono discography, news, and general information at Music CityOfficial Sketch Show website (Avex)Nippop Profile , Sketch Show
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