We’re teaming up with In Sheep’s Clothing HiFi again, this time to bring you an exclusive advance listen to Haruomi Hosono’s new album “Yours Sincerely”. We’ll play the new record in full on our hifi system during our normal dinner service on Thursday, September 10th in the 7 o’clock hour. Reservations for the evening are available via RESY now.

Some words on the record from Hosono:
“It started with a simple question: how do you express the Japanese ideas of omoiyari（思い遣り), jihi（慈悲）or boseiai (GE) in English? I searched, but no word felt quite right. Each came close, yet carried a slightly different nuance. Perhaps the nearest was ‘compassion.’ It is often translated as ‘omoiyari’ in Japanese, but its original meaning is ‘to suffer together! It tends to carry a sense of sympathy or pity-something that feels distinct from the Japanese sense of omoiyari. In Japanese, omoiyari also includes the feeling of ‘rejoicing together!’ In that sense, it may even seem like the opposite. The perspective, the emotional angle-subtly but fundamentally different. For that reason, I chose not to use ‘compassion! Instead, I turned to a more familiar word often used to close a letter: ‘Sincerely!”