A few years back I discovered the genius of Haruomi Hosono and have been sort of hooked ever since. It’s hard not to love his music. It’s soft, melodic, smooth, and touches on tons of genres all at once.
I was cruising Youtube like I’ve been known to do and I saw this video called “細野晴臣 「風をあつめて スペシャル”
I don’t speak Japanese, unfortunately, but I recognized his face in the thumbnail and gave it a click.
I’m not sure exactly its purpose or why he’s cropped in a black and white drawing of a TV, but it seems to be a video of him practicing some songs; just him and his guitar. Since first hearing his music I’ve struggled to find videos like this so was pretty psyched to see it.
Youtube and any social media can be a total time suck and makes my brain feel like liquid a lot of the time, but when it delivers me fun little videos like this it starts to feel not all that bad. I guess that’s the whole point of it? But what do I know.
All I do know is Haruomi Hosono rules. This song is my favorite.
Thanks for listening,
Will
Haruomi Hosono 🫶