HARUOMI HOSONO - Tropical Dandy ORIG PanAm LP 1975 Japan TIN PAN ALLEY ymo RARE
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Description
ARTIST: Haruomi Hosono / Tin Pan Alley
TITLE: Tropical Dandy
YEAR: 1975
LABEL: Crown / Pan Am GW-4012
CONDITION: Sleeve is a Solid VG+ small split on spine / Vinyl is VG++ Plays very nice & clean
DETAILS: Comes with inserts and promo material - Hate to part with this - one of my Favorites.
For many people outside of Japan he will be known predominantly as a founding member and bassist of Yellow Magic Orchestra. The story is more complicated. In the late 1960s/early 1970s he played in bands such as Apryl Fool and Happy End, but the origins of YMO lie in Haruomi Hosono’s solo album, Paraiso. Recorded in late 1977-early 1978, it continued the trajectory of Hosono albums like Tropical Dandy (1975) and Bon Voyage Co. (1976).
Pictured on the covers as captain of an ocean liner – a pensive playboy and flâneur, a dandified island-hopper who might have stepped out of a Joseph Conrad or Robert Louis Stevenson story – Harry ‘The Crown’ Hosono (as he styled himself in those days) filtered a mélange of American and tropical influences through a form of reverse Japonisme: Okinawan folk music, calypso and reggae, nostalgic echoes of big band swing, Hoagy Carmichael’s ‘Hong Kong Blues’, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, a touch of Sly Stone, the New Orleans R&B of Allen Toussaint, Frankie Ford and Dr. John, western boogie, Little Feat, singer-songwriter James Taylor, the bittersweet Hollywoodland exoticisms of Van Dyke Parks’s Song Cycle and Discover America, not to mention memories of Japanese acts like The Peanuts, Shizoku Kasagi and Club Nisei Orchestra. Dripping with tropical languor, popping with lovehearts and fond farewells, the songs conjured the image of a wanderer, gambling, romancing and singing his way through Louisiana and California, Trinidad, Hawaii, Okinawa, and Bali – all the ports of pleasure.
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