Bon Voyage Co. cover

Bon Voyage Co.

Haruomi Hosono

Released

1976

Similarly to the cruise ship vibes of Tropical Dandy, Bon Voyage Co. is even more suave and assured. Hosono makes allusions to an exhaustive list of famous songs: “Salt Peanuts,” “Sea Cruise,” “Great Balls of Fire,” and many more, always weaving them into his sensibilities, which even include breezy takes on Japanese traditional music. It’s as if Hosono tries the Western popular-music songbook on for size before deciding to forge his own way forward.