Harry “Haruomi” Hosono

Haruomi Hosono, overshadowed by his Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Ryuichi Sakamoto, has still forged a distinctive route through ambient music, building over the advances created by the soundscapes of Brian Eno through the ’70s, though he recorded his initial album before Eno had also joined up with Roxy Music. Blessed in Tokyo in 1947, Hosono examined sociology at Rikkyo School, forming several rings while still in college. His 1st music group, Apryl Fool, released their self-titled LP in 1969. Through the entire early and middle-’70s, he performed the component of studio room musician and bassist, and shaped two fusion tasks, Happy End and Tin Skillet Alley. Later on in the ’70s, he started documenting tape and synthesizer tests which culminated in the recording Cochin Moon, released on japan King Information. By 1978, his group Harry Hosono & the Yellow Magic Music group got sprung into Yellow Magic Orchestra, with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi. Arriving just a couple years after electro futurists Kraftwerk and Tangerine Fantasy, YMO pursued an identical trail, later on incorporating synth pop and fresh wave aswell and getting Japan’s most effective band through the ’80s — despite the fact that they had split up by 1984. Whilst Yellowish Magic Orchestra was still around, Hosono have been occupied with other tasks. With three brands to his credit (YEN, nonstandard, and Monad Music) and produces on those brands under guises such as for example S-F-X, Mercuric Dance, and — most prolifically — F.O.E. (Close friends of the planet earth), Haruomi Hosono remained active in to the past due ’80s. He made up ratings for the movies Paradise View as well as the Stories of Genji, but became disgusted using the market and withdrew from music completely by the switch of the 10 years. The pioneers of ambient home started to namecheck Yellowish Magic Orchestra in the first ’90s — actually creating a YMO remix recording called High Technology/No Crime offering the Orb plus numerous others — and Hosono came back with 1992’s Medication Compilation Through the Calm Lodge. Albums for Creation and Polygram adopted during the middle-’90s.