Last of my batch of Hosono albums for a while, this album has a mix of a lot of styles and sounds from across the world, it says on the cover "Omni Sound" and "The globe watch tour" and it certainly does live up to that. Few of the tracks are even sung in Arabic and French, it definitely does have that world music feel, though still keeping that signature Hosono sound.
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Shane
Another album from electronic pop master Hosono, typical Hosono wackiness with this one, only 6 tracks long but it's very enjoyable. "Body Snatchers" is the stand out track for me, ends with a lovely ambient track "Dark side of the Star."
(This here is a special mix of Body Snatchers but it's almost identical to the version on the album)
MP3 / 65MB
Shane
I guess I'll introduce myself too. Well I'm Shane from Manchester,UK and have been listening to music for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I really got into music, and since then discovered many fantastic artists the majority of which are really under-appreciated/under-heard, I'm sure I'll be sharing many of the aforementioned artists/bands on here, anyway;
Here we have Japanese musician Haruomi "Harry" Hosono's 1982 album Philharmony, which is just a small (but delicious) taste of the mind of this eclectic genius, the album is mostly made with electronic instruments, mixing ambient, instrumentals and vocal tracks together. It's a bit hard to listen to at first, it was for me anyway, but after a few listens I couldn't stop!
He has become somewhat of a pioneer or electronica with his now legendary band Yellow Magic Orchestra but in fact he started off as a folk rock singer in the band Happy End and it all evolved from there.
The stand out track on this for me has got to be Sports Men, it's a pop masterpiece and imo, if this record doesn't interest you so far, it's worth it just for that one song.
