Haruomi Hosono

But, you know, I always loved stuff like that.

I also always loved music, you know, that had sort of an aquatic feeling to it, which can be so many different things, you know, from exotic and Hawaiian music to, you know, like this album Pacific by Harry Hosono or, you know, another reference point would be, you know, Yola Tingo has that instrumental album where they went back and scored These really primitive underwater films from like the 20s and 30s by I think it's a French director who he was almost like a proto Jacques Cousteau doing doing oceanic film even before that.

So That's always been a big interest of mine.

It's just music that sort of conveys those aquatic themes.

Shove Anna, Anita, Arlene, Alice, Amy, Annie, Ava, Agnes, and whatever happened to Ellen, Elaine, Evelyn, Esther, Emma, Eva, Ella, Estella, Try even Joan, Jane, Jen, Jim, John, Jack, Judd, Jew.

You don't like that? Try Haruwomi, Hosono.

Not Herbie, Harry, Howie, Huey, or Henry.

In days of yore, it was Prue, Lou, Drew, Stu, Hugh, in days we appreciated America, when we loved our flag.

Well, let's get to our next record.

It's by Haruomi Hosono.

It is called Yours Sincerely.

[singing] Sekai wa bara iro.

odepani potta potta.

nemuri no naka demo ai-

ai-So, uh, Yours Sincerely is the latest album from Japanese pop music pioneer Haruomi Hosono.

And as a solo artist, Hosono has carved out a very nice, long-lasting lane of, of pop music that's a little bit left field, but he also has a pretty solid, uh...