Album Title: Bon Voyage co
Artist(s): Haruomi Hosono
Year: 1976
Genre(s)/Style(s): Exotica, Jazz/Easy Listening, Lounge, Other
Track Listing:
- “Butterfly-San” (蝶々-San Chōchō-San) 3:15
- “Hong Kong Blues” (香港Blues Hon Kon Blues) 3:09
- ““Sayonara”, the Japanese Farewell Song” 4:31
- “Roochoo Gumbo” 3:01
- “Bon Voyage co.” (泰安洋行 Taian Yōkō) 2:36
- “Tōkyō Shyness Boy” (東京Shyness Boy) 2:19
- “Black Peanuts” 2:28
- “Chow Chow Dog” 4:46
- “Pom Pom Vapor” (Pom Pom蒸気 Pom Pom Jōki) 1:56
- “Exotica Lullaby” 3:49
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Liner, Listening & Album Notes:
Part of Haruomi Hosono’s mid-1970s “Exotica Trilogy” (along with “Tropical Dandy,” in 1975, and “Paraiso,” in 1978). Part homage; part psychedelic off-shoot; part parody.
Hosono asks that the exotic dream continue, but with himself as both spectator and participant. He sees the exotica phenomenon for what it is — silly and patronizing — but adores it and revels in it … If you think too much about how the parody is eating its own tail, that this is “the Japanese way of exoticising American exoticism,” it’s dizzying.
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