Haruomi Hosono

Mac DeMarco Covers Haruomi Hosono's "Boku Wa Chotto" for Stones Throw Records Compilation

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2024

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Japanese experimental virtuoso Haruomi Hosono's beloved 1973 debut solo album 'Hosono House,' Stones...

Haruomi Hosono's Harry & Mac Album Is Finally Being Reissued

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2021

As modern audiences continue to giving Haruomi Hosono some much-deserved respect, the Japanese musical innovator's elusive Harry & Mac albu...

Cat Stevens Is Remaking His Classic 'Tea for the Tillerman'

PUBLISHED May 28, 2020

Back in 1970, Cat Stevens released his classic album Tea for the Tillerman. And with the record now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the a...

Cornelius Curates New Haruomi Hosono Collection

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2019

Haruomi Hosono is adding to his 50th anniversary celebrations, this time enlisting none other than Cornelius to curate a new collection hon...

Haruomi Hosono's 'Pacific' Sequel 'The Aegean Sea' Gets Vinyl Reissue

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2019

Adding to the Haruomi Hosono resurgence here in North America, the Japanese music hero's much-coveted Pacific sequel The Aegean Sea is fina...

Japan's City Pop Scene Explored in Light in the Attic's New 'Pacific Breeze' Comp

PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2019

Following the stunning Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, Light in the Attic is delivering the next...

Akiko Yano

Japanese Girl

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2019

French reissue label We Want Sounds is charting a course to release the early catalogue of Japanese singer Akiko Yano. The imprint is follo...

Various Artists

Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019

Without question, we live in a reissue age. From eccentric soul to spiritual jazz and Italian library, Afrobeat, abstract minimalism and fa...