Length 30:53 Release date 21 September 1978 | Cochin Moon(1978) Philharmony(1982) Label King Records | |
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Released September 21, 1978 (1978-09-21) Genres Experimental music, Psychedelic music Similar Haruomi Hosono albums, Experimental music albums |
Cochin moon ground floor
Cochin Moon (コチンの月, Kochin no Tsuki) 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 been the worst victim of an outburst of severe diarrhea amongst the group during the trip, 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 and Yellow Magic Orchestra members Ryuichi Sakamoto & 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 "Shuka Nishihara" (西原朱夏), a pseudonym Hosono created as a play on Hakushū Kitahara's pseudonym.
Contents
Track listing
All tracks written by Haruomi Hosono/"Shuka Nishihara".
Personnel
Songs
1Malabar Hotel Ground Floor Triangle Circuit on the Sea-Forest2:28
2Malabar Hotel Upper Floor Moving Triangle8:45
3Malabar Hotel Roof Garden Revel Attack8:58