Omni Sight Seeing

omni Sight Seeing
Studio album by Haruomi Hosono
Released	July 21, 1989 (1989-07-21)
Recorded	1988–1989, Tokyo and Paris
Studio	Various Magnet Studio D.M.S. Alfa Studio A Artisti Palace Nichion Studio
Genre	Ambient, electronica, world
Language	Japanese, English, French, Arabic
Label	Epic
Producer	Haruomi Hosono

Omni Sight Seeing is a 1989 album by Haruomi Hosono.

This was their first studio album in four years since their last album, "Endless Talking", and their 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.

1. ESASHI
   • The title Esashi is taken from Esashi Oiwake.
   • Hosono was watching NHK Nodo Jiman in 1988 and could not forget the song Esashi Oiwake sung by then 14-year-old Kimura Kasumi from HokkaidoEsashi Town, so he sought her out and recorded it a cappella.^[1]
2. ANDADURA
   • The genre is "Arab music".
   • The vocalists are the Arab singer Amina ("Amina Ben Mustapha" in the liner notes)^[2] and Hosono.
3. 'ORGONE BOX'
   • The title refers to the orgone discovered by Wilhelm Reich.
   • The song is about Cloudbuster. (See Orgon for more information.)
4. OHENRO-SAN
   • The title Ohenro refers to Ohenro.
   • It contains some of the songs used in Human Promise, directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.
5. CARAVAN
   • Hosono himself says: "A compilation of quotations, a ghost band of ghost musicians"; the names Les Paul and Duke Ellington are credited, but this is a simulation, not an actual performance and recording.
6. RETORT
   • The lyrics are included on the lyric card, but the singer himself explains, "I can't sing it very well, so I'm hoping someone will record a song version of it for me one day." He explains, ^[2].
   • A song version self-cover was included as "Retort - Vu Ja De ver." (M11) on his album Vu Jà Dé, released in 2017.
7. LAUGH-GAS
   • The lyrics are in French and the song is sung by "Amina Ben Mustapha".^[1]
8. KORENDOR
   • Image of "a deranged alien playing piano in the Japanese countryside", according to the man himself.
9. 'PLEOCENE'
   • The song PLEOCENE is a development of the song PLEOCINE, which was used in the film Night on the Galactic Railroad released in 1985.
   • The vocals are sung by Hosono and Moro Fukuzawa.

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