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Hosono House is debut solo album by Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono, released on May 25, 1973.

Background and recording

Besides Hosono, this album also features performances by the group "Caramel Mama" (featuring Hosono's fellow Happy End member Shigeru Suzuki). Hosono wanted to emulate The Band's Music from Big Pink and James Taylor's One Man Dog. With this album, recording equipment technology had evolved enough for domestic recordings of good quality to be feasible, and going to the center of the city to reach a recording studio was somewhat inconvenient. The album was recorded for five hours every afternoon in a 144 square foot large bedroom in Hosono's residence in Sayama, Japan (with a 16-track mixing console in his living room). The instruments were recorded unprocessed from the amplifiers in a small room, leading to the album's unique sound. Hosono continued to develop the tropical style of Hosono House in his following works, Tropical Dandy and Bon Voyage co..

Track listing

all_writing=Haruomi Hosono, except "Owari no Kisetsu", with music by Hosono and lyrics by Mondo Uno; "Fuyu Koe" & "Jūsho Futei Mushoku Teishūnyū", written by Hosono with horns arranged by Kinji Yoshino and "Party", with music by Hosono and lyrics by Ryōko Suzuki & Yasushi Nakayama |total_length=31:33 |title1=Rock-a-Bye My Baby |note1=Template:Nihongo2 Rokka Bai Mai Beibī |length1=3:15 |title2=Boku wa Chotto |note2=Template:Nihongo2 |length2=3:52 |title3=Choo Choo Gatagoto |note3=Template:Nihongo2 |length3=3:25 |title4=Owari no Kisetsu |note4=Template:Nihongo2 |length4=3:12 |title5=Fuyu Koe |note5=Template:Nihongo2 |length5=3:15 |title6=Party |note6=Template:Nihongo2 Pātī |length6=2:02 |title7=Fuku ha Uchi Oni ha Soto |note7=Template:Nihongo2 |length7=2:28 |title8=Jūsho Futei Mushoku Teishūnyū |note8=Template:Nihongo2 |length8=2:35 |title9=Koi wa Momoiro |note9=Template:Nihongo2 |length9=2:47 |title10=Rose and Beast |note10=Template:Nihongo2 Bara to Yajū |length10=4:24 |title11=Aiaigasa |note11=Template:Nihongo2 |length11=0:18 }}

Personnel

Production
  • Shinzo Ishiura, WIND CORPORATION - Management
  • Ritsu Kamimura - Transportation
  • Misako Hosono - Cooking
  • Mitsunori Miura (for BELLWOOD RECORDS) - Executive Production
  • Masahiro Nogami - Photography
  • WORK SHOP MU!! - Art Direction
  • VERANSKY MIKKO MOKKO MINAKO, YAMAZAKI & Neighbour Foods - Special Thanks
  • CITY MUSIC CORPORATION - Publishing
  • ALFA MUSIC - Publishing for "Owari no Kisetsu"
  • SHINKO MUSIC - Publishing for "Aiaigasa"
Reissue staff
  • Mitsunori Miura - Supervision
  • Ēji Ogura - Auxiliary Supervision
  • Masakazu Kitanaka - Liner Notes
  • Junichi Yamada - Liner Notes Editing
  • Hiroyuki Tsuji - Remastering Engineering
  • Approach - Design
  • Junichi Yamashita - Design Coordination
  • Katsumi Miyata & Jōwa Honda - A&R




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