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Haruomi Hosono - Yours Sincerely [CD]

$15.99
SKU: GHOS499.2

Haruomi Hosono, the pioneering Japanese musician, producer, composer, and founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End, has "found his voice in a late career renaissance," writes The Wire. His five-decade legacy continues to grow and attract new fans, and has been cited by an acclaimed list of artists, including Mac DeMarco, Cameron Winter, Ginger Root, Vampire Weekend, and Harry Styles. Shaped by mid-century American music, Hosono's work now reverberates back through a new generation of Western artists-a remarkable circular exchange. Yours Sincerely, his 23rd studio album and first collection of new music in over seven years, finds Hosono ever-pushing his exploratory songcraft: "I am now 78 years old, but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknown music that my new self will create, while also embracing the music of my former self-as if I now carry two musical worlds within me." Across arrangements that span tender psych-folk and bubbling avant pop, Hosono contemplates the concept of a maternal force that envelops the Earth, "humanity's understanding of the unconditional love possessed by those who give us life," he says. Songs tap into a collective current, engaging the "deeply buried instincts-maternal compassion and mercy, things we rarely engage with in our daily lives." The work represents an artistic and subconscious shift. Several tracks feature female vocalists, such as "Note of Mothership", a group-chanted expression of childlike wonder, "To a Wild Rose", which delights with oceanside hums and prose, and on the elegant, marching "Figlio Perdute." "This was a completely new approach for me," he adds. The unofficial title track, "Sincerely", frames the legend in his signature mode, strumming, singing, playfully pondering the answer to a simple question. How do you express the Japanese ideas of omoiyari (compassion), jihi (慈悲), or boseiai (母性愛) in English? Hosono explains, "I searched, but no word felt quite right. Each came close, yet carried a slightly different nuance... I turned to a more familiar word often used to close a letter: 'Sincerely.'" "It is in this spirit that I offer this album to you-sincerely, from the heart. 

UPC/ISBN: 804297849928

Release Date: 09/11/2026

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