Haruomi Hosono – Omni Sight Seeing

This wasHaruomi Hosono‘s first studio album in four years since his last album,Endless Talking, and the first release since moving to Epic/Sony Records. This work was the result of sessions and collaborations with Arabian musicians, with an inclination towards the “world music” that was gaining attention at the time. Deployed often in pop culture as punchline, Hosono takes such sight-seeing and transforms it into a metaphor for sample-heavy electronic music, drawing from various cultures and weaving them together into a new holistic vision.Omni Sight Seeingis the clearest iteration of this concept, as he alights on Algerian ra,Martin Dennyexotica, and acid house, too. It’s one partJon Hassell-esque Fourth World, one partDuke Ellington“jungle music,” with Hosono’s singular outlook running through it all.