Reminding me that a few years ago I wrote for 4Columns about this compilation of Japanese "interior music" and 4th World sounds, Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990, in which Sakamoto (and Hosono) are both mentioned. And just a few months ago she wrote this piece about Sakamoto's 12 for 4Columns. Geeta Dayal has made available for free inspection a piece she wrote about Yellow Magic Orchestra for Groove magazine in 2006, including an interview with Sakamoto. Ryuichi Sakamoto To call Ryuichi Sakamoto - synth-pop pioneer, ethnic-fusion guru and progressive-electronic stalwart - a jack of all trades might be a bit of a cliché, but the point to be made here is that he has indeed become a master of the various genres he has dabbled in throughout his three-decade-plus residency in the music business.
Here's a really interesting piece by Dan Barrow on Sakamoto's work and the background to it in terms of Japanese politics + culture, at Jacobin.Ī piece by David Hudson at the Criterion Daily about Sakamoto: "It All Seems Limitless" And last night, I decided to try one of the tracks from the album on YouTube, 'Anna'. Recorded at Studio 'A' in Tokyo, Studio 80 and Air Studios in London. Not quite sure whether Ryuichi Sakamotowas being assaulted by Big Bird on his cover for his June 1994 album, 'Sweet Revenge', but its a cover that Ive seen time and again over the years whenever I passed through one of the major CD shops. And here's a playlist I pulled together, a highlights and landmarks guided tour through his prolific genius, from Yellow Magic Orchestra, through solo albums like the still-astonishing B-2 Unit and Esperanto, to collaborations like the gorgeous strangeness of "Bamboo Houses / Bamboo Music" (with David Sylvian) and his wonderful string of albums with Alva Noto. Words written by Yoshitaka Goto and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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