Hosono House

Hosono House is the debut solo album of Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono, released on May 25, 1973.

Background and recording
Besides Hosono, this album also features performances by the group "Caramel Mama" (featuring Hosono's fellow Happy End member Shigeru Suzuki). Hosono wanted to emulate The Band's Music from Big Pink and James Taylor's One Man Dog. With this album, recording equipment technology had evolved enough for domestic recordings of good quality to be feasible, and going to the center of the city to reach a recording studio was somewhat inconvenient. The album was recorded for five hours every afternoon in a 144 sqft large bedroom in Hosono's residence in Sayama, Japan with a 16-track mixing console in his living room. The instruments were recorded unprocessed from the amplifiers in a small room, leading to the album's unique sound. Hosono continued to develop the tropical style of Hosono House in his following works, Tropical Dandy and Bon Voyage co..

Personnel

 * Haruomi Hosono – Bass, Guitar, Flat Mandolin, Vocal, Melodica, Thumb piano (on "Party"), Piano (on "Party"), Horn (Wind and Brass) Arrangements, Production, Sony TC-9400
 * Masataka Matsutoya – Piano, Fender Rhodes, Accordion
 * Shigeru Suzuki – Electric guitar
 * Tatsuo Hayashi – Drums, Percussion
 * Hiroki Komazawa – Steel guitar
 * Kinji Yoshino – Horn Arrangements, Engineering, Re-Mix Engineering
 * Masaki Nomura – Engineering
 * Production
 * Shinzo Ishiura, WIND CORPORATION – Management
 * Ritsu Kamimura – Transportation
 * Misako Hosono – Cooking
 * Mitsunori Miura (for BELLWOOD RECORDS) – Executive Production
 * Masahiro Nogami – Photography
 * WORK SHOP MU!! – Art Direction
 * VERANSKY MIKKO MOKKO MINAKO, YAMAZAKI & Neighbour Foods – Special Thanks
 * CITY MUSIC CORPORATION – Publishing
 * ALFA MUSIC – Publishing for "Owari no Kisetsu"
 * SHINKO MUSIC – Publishing for "Aiaigasa"
 * Reissue staff
 * Mitsunori Miura – Supervision
 * Ēji Ogura – Auxiliary Supervision
 * Masakazu Kitanaka – Liner Notes
 * Junichi Yamada – Liner Notes Editing
 * Hiroyuki Tsuji – Remastering Engineering
 * Approach – Design
 * Junichi Yamashita – Design Coordination
 * Katsumi Miyata & Jōwa Honda – A&R

Popular culture
Harry Styles explained how he came up with the title for his 2022 album Harry's House: "The album is named after Haruomi Hosono, he had an album in the '70s called Hosono's House, and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like 'I love that.[...] It'd be really fun to make a record called Harry's House '."