KORANBOGOR.com,JAKARTA-Legendary musician, producer, and composer Haruomi Hosono shares new single “Note of Mothership,” arriving as he turns 79 and enters a new chapter in his singular career. The song is the first taste of his forthcoming album Yours Sincerely due 11th September via Ghostly International.
Hosono’s work has shaped pop, indie, and electronic music and beyond globally for over five decades, predicting entire lanes of music before they existed. Frieze has proclaimed him as “probably the most significant artist in the history of Japanese popular music.” Now at the age of 79, Hosono is entering his next chapter with his 23rd studio album.
The accompanying visualizer offers a glimpse into the quiet world of Dr. Tanuki, a raccoon dog character who observes living organisms through microscopes and magnifying glasses.
Speaking about the concept of the new single Hosono shares, “For the past several years, I have been contemplating the maternal presence that envelops the Earth. I believe expressions like ‘Mother Earth’ and ‘Mother Nature’ were born from an intuitive understanding of the strict yet tender compassion that our human progenitor holds.
Yet, as a consequence of twentieth-century materialism, humanity now stands at a chaotic crossroads. Through the powerless, solitary experiences brought on by great earthquakes and the spread of pandemics, I sensed that something had begun to stir. As if instincts long dormant in the depths of our hearts—maternal love, compassion—had begun to stir, the current of consciousness ceased to remain confined to the individual and began to move as a quiet, flowing stream.”
Yours Sincerely was shaped over two years. Hosono shares, “It started with a simple question: how do you express the Japanese ideas of omoiyari (思い遣り), jihi (慈悲), or boseiai (母性愛) in English? I searched, but no word felt quite right. Each came close, yet carried a slightly different nuance.
Perhaps the nearest was ‘compassion.’ It is often translated as ‘omoiyari’ in Japanese, but its original meaning is ‘to suffer together.’ It tends to carry a sense of sympathy or pity—something that feels distinct from the Japanese sense of omoiyari. In Japanese, omoiyari also includes the feeling of ‘rejoicing together.’ In that sense, it may even seem like the opposite.
The perspective, the emotional angle—subtly but fundamentally different. For that reason, I chose not to use ‘compassion.’ Instead, I turned to a more familiar word often used to close a letter: ‘Sincerely.’”
Hosono will be heading on The Yours Sincerely Tour in North America this September, headlining Radio City Music Hall in NY and the Greek Theatre in LA as his first US shows in seven years. Toro y Moi will support both performances.
Across arrangements spanning tender, exploratory folk and bubbling avant-pop, Hosono contemplates a maternal force that envelops the Earth, “humanity’s understanding of theunconditional love possessed by those who give us life,” he says. Songs tap into a collective current, the “deeply buried instincts – maternal compassion and mercy, things we rarely engage with in our daily lives.”
Shaped by mid-century American music, Hosono’s work now reverberates back through a new generation of Western artists – a remarkable circular exchange. Hosono has been cited by an acclaimed list of contemporary artists, including Mac DeMarco, Cameron Winter, Ginger Root, Vampire Weekend, and Harry Styles. Harry Styles named his chart-topping 2022 album Harry’s House directly after HOSONO HOUSE (1973), Mac DeMarco has called him his “hero,” and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sampled his work on the Grammy-winning Father of the Bride.
A founding member of Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), Hosono helped establish Japanese-language rock in the 1970s and pioneered electronic music with YMO—whose 1979 album Solid State Survivor topped the Japanese Album Chart, sold over two million copies, and became foundational to synth-pop, techno, and hip-hop.
Listen to “Note of Mothership” above, find tickets for The Yours Sincerely Tour below and stay tuned for more from Haruomi Hosono coming soon.
Tour Dates:
* = with Toro y Moi
16/9 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall*
20/9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre*
Tickets:
https://www.livenation.com/artist/K8vZ9179Mc0/haruomi-hosono-events
Haruomi Hosono
Yours Sincerely
Ghostly International
11th September 2026
- Note of Mothership
- Sincerely
- Ayurveda
- M for Mandala
- Rojiura
- Happy Holiday
- To a Wild Rose
- Humming “Dream of Love”
- Figlio Perduto
- Anemo Wheel
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