Within Haruomi Hosono’s decades-spanning career, 2006’s “Walking Vibration” isn’t particularly notable. The celebrated Japanese musician made this flute-accented instrumental for a TV show aired that same year about people seeking clarity in life via a famous pilgrimage around the country’s Shikoku region. It’s a minor entry in a sprawling songbook that changed the course of his home country’s music scene and influenced creators around the world, preserved only on a 2008 “archive” collection.
Yet on his treasure box of an album Yours Sincerely, the 79-year-old Hosono revisits what was once just background music for a four-episode drama. He keeps the traditional percussive touches of the original intact but adds…

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