Cochin Moon Explained

Cochin Moon
Type:Studio
Artist:Hosono & Yokoo
Cover:Hosono & Yokoo Cochin Moon.png
Label:KING
Producer:Haruomi Hosono
Tadanori Yokoo (Executive)
Tsunehiro Motoyoshi
Tadao Takakuwa
Chronology:Haruomi Hosono
Prev Title:Paraiso
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:Philharmony
Next Year:1982

is Haruomi Hosono's fifth solo album. Initially intended as a collaboration with illustrator Tadanori Yokoo, who traveled to India alongside Hosono (as part of a group) for inspiration; Yokoo ended up only drawing the cover, having contracted a stomach illness during the trip,[1] rendering this as a Hosono solo album.

Cochin Moon was conceptually written as the soundtrack of a non-existent Bollywood film, a trait inspired by the artists' trip. The album includes performances by Tin Pan Alley keyboardist Hiroshi Satō, Yellow Magic Orchestra member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Hideki Matsutake. Despite being Hosono's first completely electronic solo album (at the time YMO's debut was still being recorded, making this Hosono's first electronic album to be released), the exotica feel of Hosono's previous solo work is still present. The first half of the album (named after an Indian hotel that the group was in for the trip, a picture of the hotel's front appears in the back of the album's packaging) consists of three thematically themed songs, the second half of the album (and Hosono's keyboard performance) is credited to, a pseudonym Hosono created as a play on Hakushū Kitahara's pseudonym.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Haruomi Hosono: Hosono House / Paraiso / Cochin Moon / Philharmony / omni Sight Seeing. Lozano. Kevin. 3 October 2018. Pitchfork. 4 May 2022.