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Cochin Moon is the fifth solo studio album by Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono. Released on September 21, 1979, Cochin Moon was initially intended as a collaboration with illustrator Tadanori Yokoo, who traveled to India alongside Hosono for inspiration; Yokoo ended up only drawing the cover, having contracted a stomach illness during the trip, rendering this as a Hosono solo album. Cochin Moon was conceptually written as the soundtrack of a non-existent Bollywood film, a trait inspired by the artists' trip. The album includes performances by Tin Pan Alley keyboardist Hiroshi Satō, Yellow Magic Orchestra member Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Hideki Matsutake. Despite being Hosono's first completely electronic solo album, the exotica feel of Hosono's previous solo work is still present. The first half of the album consists of three thematically themed songs, the second half of the album is credited to "Shuka Nishihara", a pseudonym Hosono created as a play on Hakushū Kitahara's pseudonym. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)