Last year, Yellow Magic Orchestra's founding member Ryuichi Sakamoto released an album of collaborations with Christian Fennesz called Cendre. Well, Sakamoto isn't known for resting on his laurels and has gone and done it again. This time, he invited SF's experimental composer Christopher Willits to join him in his NYC studio. The collaboration has resulted in a brand new full-length album f...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Chasm [2004]The 15th solo release from the peerless Academy and Grammy award-winning Japanese composer / musician Ryuichi Sakamoto."My music has been acoustic or electronic, classical or non-classical, somehow always divided largely into two types. My own goal for a long time has been to somehow fuse these into one music rather than juxtaposing them.I really haven’t wanted to.
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Sakamoto has learned much from his recent partners and contemporaries, not the least of which being how to craft an eloquent and masterfully produced album.
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Wrapping up today's Thomas Dolby thread is his 1985 collaboration with YMO member Ryuichi Sakamoto, "Field Work". The video is pretty bizarre, with Dolby playing a Travis Bickle/Taxi Driver character, Sakamoto a Japanese soldier who didn't know WWII was over. I heard "Field Work" via Sakamoto's "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia" record. The track is just what you'd expect - the perfect mix of t...
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...I was trawling around the iTunes Store for Yellow Magic's debut LP and Solid "State Survivor LP":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sgd5vwvta9ek to put in my iPod (they don't have either on there yet, to my chagrin)...if you've never heard the group's debut LP from back in the 70s check out the post that "contains the 'Firecracker' video here":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/1...
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July 2005 - We have a live performance of War & Peace, one of my favorite cuts right now. This version is pretty close to the original, with the 20 vocals lifted straight from the studio version. Ryuichi came up with this concept, and Arto Lindsay, a longtime friend and collaborator, wrote the words. On the record (Chasm), Haruomi Hosono plays the medecine drum on it, which is cool...having ...
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Last year, Yellow Magic Orchestra's founding member Ryuichi Sakamoto released an album of collaborations with Christian Fennesz called Cendre. Well, Sakamoto isn't known for resting on his laurels and has gone and done it again. This time, he invited SF's experimental composer Christopher Willits to join him in his NYC studio. The collaboration has resulted in a brand new full-length album f...
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...I was trawling around the iTunes Store for Yellow Magic's debut LP and Solid "State Survivor LP":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sgd5vwvta9ek to put in my iPod (they don't have either on there yet, to my chagrin)...if you've never heard the group's debut LP from back in the 70s check out the post that "contains the 'Firecracker' video here":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/1...
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I saw this show a long time ago when I was very young and could stand up for the entire length of a concert. They opened with this song and at one point during the show Sakamoto came out from behind the keyboards with a melatron and wailed on a solo for a couple of minutes. I commented to my friend "Everyone wants to be Eddie Van Halen don't they?"
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Wrapping up today's Thomas Dolby thread is his 1985 collaboration with YMO member Ryuichi Sakamoto, "Field Work". The video is pretty bizarre, with Dolby playing a Travis Bickle/Taxi Driver character, Sakamoto a Japanese soldier who didn't know WWII was over. I heard "Field Work" via Sakamoto's "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia" record. The track is just what you'd expect - the perfect mix of t...
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this song has to be one of the most haunting and beautiful tunes written in many years. Should be played every day on every radio station in the world! this is of the Chasm album, i love ryuichi & sylvian collaborations! David's voice stirs so much emotion. his live in Tokyo is a spiritual experience.
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| 2 Mill Theme |
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| 3 Love Theme |
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| 4 Trip to Egypt |
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| 5 First Trip to Japan |
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