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$25.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
This was Haruomi Hosono's first studio album in four years since his last album, Endless Talking, and the first release since moving to Epic/Sony Records. This work was the result of sessions and collaborations with Arabian musicians, with an inclination towards the "world music" that was gaining attention at the time. Deployed often in pop culture as punchline, Hosono takes such sight-seeing and transforms it into a metaphor for sample-heavy electronic music, drawing from various cultures and weaving them together into a new holistic vision. Omni Sight Seeing is the clearest iteration of this concept, as he alights on Algerian raï, Martin Denny exotica, and acid house, too. It's one part Jon Hassell-esque Fourth World, one part Duke Ellington "jungle music," with Hosono's singular outlook running through it all.
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Medicine Compilation from the Quiet Lodge features ultimate ambient music that invites listeners to another world, including masterpieces such as "Honey Moon," which has a duo vocal with Akiko Yano, and was originally recorded on the album Tropical Dandy and the funky "Aiwoiwaiaou" with lively singing voices. The album was originally released in 1993 and is now issued on vinyl in Japan for the first time. Gatefold sleeve.
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Originally released in 1987 as a film soundtrack, this expressly ambient work by the Japanese composer is based on the Gagaku style of ancient Japanese court music, but with a shimmer of tones created by one person using a computer. Unlike much of Hosono's catalogue, here the synthesizer acts mostly as an atmospheric texture and instead focuses on traditional Japanese instruments, particularly koto, flute and drums. The truly striking aspect of this soundtrack is the layering of the instruments, which accumulate to the point of becoming unfamiliar: throngs of finger-beaten strings sound like a beehive of insects, waves of gentle hand percussion sound like the swell of inhalations and exhalations, the elaborate flute suggests the howl of the wind. Gatefold sleeve.
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