Search - Haruomi Hosono :: Hosono Box 1969-2000

Haruomi Harry- Hosono's Clonicle

iorin | Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Japan | 11/17/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hosono is famous as YMO's leader not only in Japan but also other countries. Although YMO is the most incredible one, he has been trying to create "much more better" music in his works during 30 years. This CD-BOX contains pre-YMO era(1), YMO era(2), reacent works(3), live takes(4). Though songs on this CDs was not choised by Hosono, we can listen to his essence of music from them. I love Disc-1 especially. His dimmed-like anbiguous singing voices go straight my heart and ears."

Spotty, but very good

L. Baier | Indianapolis, IN United States | 01/03/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Follow Harry through his many personae. The strange thing is that, although the instrumentation changes you can still hear the same personality emerging through thirty years of music. And the instrumentation/production values change pretty drastically over the course of the four discs. There are a few tracks missing that should be there but aren't...a few that should not be there that are. But given how hard it's become to find some of these originals in print, it's worth the price of admission -- almost! Over thirty bucks per CD is a lot of money for any artist..."