Haruomi Hosono on the Music That Made Him
Alexia Bădoiu
Haruomi Hosono is the sort of artist you keep rediscovering throughout your life. It may begin with Yellow Magic Orchestra , the pioneering synth-pop trio he formed with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi . Or it could start with his solo work, where he’s traversed everything from exotica to tape music to boisterous art pop . Dive into his credits, and his name pops up everywhere in the past half-century of Japanese music. There’s the folk boom of the 1970s, where he played in the
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