HARUOMI HOSONO - Tropical Dandy (50th Anniversary Edition) LITTLE BARRIE & MALCOLM CATTO There Ain’t Been Some Clever

There Ain’t Been Some Clever Bastards

Music is action and it’s taking them through a portal to the other side of grief

relentless black and white imagery of singer John Kelly’s words and the band’s shadow play

Different line-ups were tried and experimented with and after an immediate connection at a rehearsal

” The “Pink Sky” video directed by Micah Welner was made in frontman Martin Courtney’s hometown of Beacon

HARUOMI HOSONO - Tropical Dandy (50th Anniversary Edition) LITTLE BARRIE & MALCOLM CATTO There Ain’t Been Some CleverLP Black Vinyl. 2025 Reissue marking 50 years since its original release. Marking 50 years since its original release, Stones Throw Records reissue of Haruomi Hosono's 1975 album Tropical Dandy is the first edition of this record to be released outside of Japan. Tropical Dandy is the cult classic album that marked Hosonos shift toward genre blending, fusing exotica, jazz, and pop to lay the groundwork for Japanese City Pop. Ive orbited around [Hosono]