Yours Sincerely

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Label: Ghostly InternationalRelease Date: 11th September From country rock to alternative pop to new age to synth pop to tropicalia to jazz to folk and beyond, there are few musici ans who have as impressionable an influence on music today. The master's first album in an age could well inspire a new generation still. Haroumi Hosono, the pioneering Japanese musician, producer, composer, and founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End, has “found his voice in a late career renaissance," writes The Wire. His five-decade legacy continues to grow and attract new fans, and has been cited by an acclaimed list of artists, including Mac DeMarco, Cameron Winter, Ginger Root, Vampire Weekend, and Harry Styles. Shaped by mid-century American music, Hosono's work now reverberates back through a new generation of Western artists—a remarkable circular exchange.Yours Sincerely, his 23rd studio album and first collection of new music in over seven years, finds Hosono ever-pushing his exploratory songcraft: “I am now 78 years old, but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknownmusic 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.” Across arrangements that span tender psych-folk and bubbling avant pop, Hosono contemplates the concept of a maternal force that envelops the Earth, “humanity’s understanding of the unconditional love possessed by those who give us life,” he says. Songs tap into a collective current, engaging the “deeply buried instincts—maternal compassion and mercy, things we rarely engage with in our daily lives.” Tracklisting:1. Note of Mothership2. Sincerely3. Ayurveda4. M for Mandala5. Rojiura (Walking Vibration)6. Happy Holiday7. To A Wild Rose8. Humming "Dream Of Love"9. Figlio Perdute10. Anemo Wheel Show more