Hosono House
Hosono House is the debut solo album of Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono, released on May 25, 1973.
Background and recording
Besides Hosono, this album also features performances by the group "Caramel Mama". 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 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.Track listing
Personnel
- Haruomi Hosono – Bass, Guitar, Flat Mandolin, Vocal, Melodica, Thumb piano, Piano, Horn Arrangements, Production, Sony TC-9400
- Masataka Matsutoya – Piano, Fender Rhodes, Accordion
- Shigeru Suzuki – Electric guitar
- Tatsuo Hayashi – Drums, Percussion
- Hiroki Komazawa – Steel guitar
- Kinji Yoshino – Horn Arrangements, Engineering, Re-Mix Engineering
- Masaki Nomura – Engineering
- Shinzo Ishiura, WIND CORPORATION – Management
- Ritsu Kamimura – Transportation
- Misako Hosono – Cooking
- Mitsunori Miura – 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"
- 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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