Various - Hosono House Revisited 2xLP

Label: Stones Throw

Stones Throw is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Haruomi Hosono’s iconic solo debut Hosono House with a new compilation of reworks by some of his biggest fans. Hosono House Revisited comes out on November 1st with Mac DeMarco, Yuma Abe, John Carroll Kirby & The Mizuhara Sisters, Pearl & The Oysters, and more all put their original spins on songs from the 1973 classic.

Haruomi (or Harry) Hosono is a founding member of both the influential folk-rock group Happy End and the pioneering electronic trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1973 solo debut Hosono House perfectly blended folk, country, calypso and funk – and still sounds as fresh today as it did a half-century ago.

The compilation kicked off with Mac DeMarco’s take on “Boku Wa Chotto“. Mac said: “Hosono is my hero, I love all of his music, I am eternally at his every beck and call, it is my honor to be a part of this compilation. I recorded this cover in Joe Bird’s guest room in Paris, August 2023. I hope my Japanese pronunciation isn’t too horrible.”

Other Stones Throw artists involved in the project include John Carroll Kirby featuring The Mizuhara Sisters (Kiko & Yuka), Jerry Paper, Pearl & The Oysters, as well as Sam Gendel, Cornelius, Akiko Yano, Yuma Abe, mei ehara, rei harakami, Kukuku (Ikuko Harada & Manami Kakudo), and more. 

Hosono House’s strange beauty has been beloved by music fans and artists around the world for half a century. Now, musicians who’ve been obsessed with the album their whole lives are interpreting it themselves.