Masabumi hosono biography sampler

It’s virtually impossible to find an individual as prolific and influential as Haruomi Hosono in any country’s pop music history. His discography is encyclopedic and spreads across sounds and genres. This is true not only as an artist but as a band member, songwriter, session player and, perhaps most importantly, a producer. Hosono’s relentless work ethic and obsession with creating new sounds blended perfectly with his deep-seeded interest in advancing technology, especially starting in the 1980s. For Hosono, the possibilities of production became boundless due to the rise of synthesizers and samplers, which propelled him into his most explorative and curious period.

His solo albums from 1982’s Philharmony through 1989’s Omni Sight Seeing might best represent this experimental growth, but we’d like to shed light on a few lesser-known works where he began exploring the realm of downtempo and abstract electronics. This period led to many interesting pairings from fellow Japanese experimentalists Yasuaki Shimizu, Tetsu Inoue, and Miharu Koshi to electronic pioneers Bill Laswell and Mixmaster Morris.

For a deep dive into Hosono’s electronic legacy, we highly recommend checking out our friend Andy Beta’s 2018 exploration into Hosono’s electronic music journey as well as Terre Thaemlitz’s 2003 essay “GLOBULE of NON-STANDARD: An Attempted Clarification Of Globular Identity Politics In Japanese Electronic ‘Sightseeing Music.’” 

Below, we’ve shared a few of our personal favorites from Hosono’s late 80s-90s period and some light insight into how they helped further his idiosyncratic musical world.

Haruomi Hosono – Medicine Compilation from the Quiet Lodge (1993)

“Medicine” has glimpses of what was to come, a sublimely inviting ambient album with touches of acid house, downtempo pop, and ethereal tr

Japanese musician (born 1947)

Musical artist

Haruomi Hosono (Japanese: 細野 晴臣, Hepburn: Hosono Haruomi, born July 9, 1947), sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for decades as well as pop music outside of Japan. He also inspired genres such as city pop and Shibuya-kei, and as the leader of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous electronic genres.

The grandson of Titanic survivor Masabumi Hosono, Haruomi began his career with the psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, before achieving recognition both nationally and internationally, as a founding member of the bands Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles, including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums. As well as recording his own music, Hosono has done considerable production work for other artists such as Miharu Koshi, Sheena and the Roketts, Sandii & the Sunsetz, Chisato Moritaka and Seiko Matsuda. In 2003, Hosono was ranked by HMV Japan at number 44 on their list of the top 100 Japanese pop acts of all time.

Biography

Further information: Masabumi Hosono, Apryl Fool, Happy End (band), and Yellow Magic Orchestra

Hosono is the grandson of Masabumi Hosono, the only Japanese passenger and survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Hosono first came to attention in Japan as the bass player of the psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, alongside drummer Takashi Matsumoto, who released the album The Apryl Fool in 1969. Hosono and Matsumoto then formed the influential folk rock group Happy End with Eiichi Ohtaki and Shigeru Suzuki. One of the songs he composed for Happy End, "K

The word titanic means ‘of exceptional strength, size, or power’ and we’d like you to keep this in mind when reading this latest blog showcasing AskiaAnalyse’s ability to link with R or Python, producing amazing analyses we could never run before in the Askia world!

Background

The dataset we will explore contains information about a sample of 889 passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic, which was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking one of modern history’s deadliest peacetime commercial marine disasters. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line.

But first, before we dig into the analyses, an ‘honourable’ mention:

Masabumi Hosono was a Japanese civil servant. He was the only Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic’s disastrous maiden voyage. He survived the ship’s sinking on 15 April 1912, but found himself condemned and ostracised by the Japanese public, press and government for his decision to save himself rather than go down with the ship.

Whilst there is no variable in the data such as dishonoredNationID or publiclyOstracisedFlag, a bit of super-sleuthing on his Wikipedia page and named datasets online gave me enough information to isolate a few contenders, and a prime candidate in our dataset: PassengerId=289.

There are countless tragic individual tales to recount from this event, but can we use the data to shed some more light on factors which affected a passenger’s ability to survive the disaster, just like Mr. Masabumi Hosono?

Where to start?

Excluding the survived flag and the passenger id,