Haruomi Hosono, producer, composer, songwriter, and Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder, has announced new solo album Yours Sincerely which will be out September 11 via Ghostly International. He says: “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.”
“It started with a simple question: how do you express the Japanese ideas of omoiyari (思い遣り), jihi (慈悲), or boseiai (母性愛) in English? I searched, but no word felt quite right,” Hosono says of the album’s genesis. “Each came close, yet carried a slightly different nuance. Perhaps the nearest was ‘compassion.’ It is often translated as ‘omoiyari’ in Japanese, but its original meaning is ‘to suffer together.’ It tends to carry a sense of sympathy or pity—something that feels distinct from the Japanese sense of omoiyari. In Japanese, omoiyari also includes the feeling of ‘rejoicing together.’ In that sense, it may even seem like the opposite. The perspective, the emotional angle—subtly but fundamentally different. For that reason, I chose not to use ‘compassion.’ Instead, I turned to a more familiar word often used to close a letter: ‘Sincerely.’”
While no music has been shared yet, you can check out the Yours Sincerely artwork and tracklist below. Haruomi Hosono has announced release shows in NYC (Radio City Music Hall on 9/16) and Los Angeles (The Greek Theatre on 9/20) both of which are with Toro y Moi. You can get tickets to the NYC show on BrooklynVegan Presale starting Thursday, May 28 at 10 AM ET. Use the presale password BKVEGAN. Our presale runs until 10 PM ET, and any remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 22 at 10 AM ET.
Yours Sincerely
Note of Mothership
Sincerely
Ayurveda
M for Mandala
Rojiura
Happy Holiday
To a Wild Rose
Humming “Dream of Love”
Figlio Perduto
Anemo Wheel
