Is there a track with David Sylvian on the new one?..,
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 3 April 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
new album is pretty amazing
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
^i really like the combination of introspective, lyrical piano pieces with sound art tracks on async.
― Alex in Spree-Athen (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 8 May 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
Great album
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 8 May 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
yup
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
he's in NYC next weekend for a film retro of his scores
https://quadcinema.com/program/forbidden-colours-ryuichi-sakamoto-at-the-movies/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
The Revenant too recent for a retrospective?
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
could be
also an arthouse venue
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
true
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Monday, 8 May 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
while aysnc just breezed by like a cool autumn day on the first few listens, I've recently returned to it and found it to be a stunner. I thought his previous solo album Out of Noise was kind of boring but I really like the "14 flavors of ambient" thing going on here, not to mention how the title/theme "async" manifests itself in several ways. I wish it was a bit more melodic but only because the actual melodies on here are absolutely gorgeous. I like the plinky plonky stuff. Reminds me a bit of The Ship by Eno, not in any thematic way but rather how the openness and sense of space lets you hear the compositions in a number of ways.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
also it occurred to me that this is sort of a spiritual successor to B-2 Unit and Esperanto in some ways
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
Doco & a concert film coming our way soon, which likely means US/UK audience have already had a chance to see them - any good?
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODARyuichi Sakamoto: async Live at the Park Avenue Armory
― etc, Monday, 23 July 2018 08:15 (six years ago) link
doc is playing in NY, haven't seen it yet
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 July 2018 10:07 (six years ago) link
There was a one-off showing in DC that I missed. Read that it shows his interest in director Tarkovsky
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 July 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Last fall a friend told me a story about Ryuichi Sakamoto, the renowned musician and composer who lives in the West Village. Mr. Sakamoto, it seems, so likes a particular Japanese restaurant in Murray Hill, and visits it so often, that he finally had to be straight with the chef: He could not bear the music it played for its patrons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/dining/restaurant-music-playlists-ryuichi-sakamoto.html
― o. nate, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Tony Rayns in sight and sound said:
Moderately interesting but deeply unsatisfying, this not-very-intimate portrait of the musician Sakamoto Ryuichi covers a lot of ground without revealing or even suggesting anything surprising to anyone who has followed Sakamoto’s career... His private life was evidently off-limits: there’s no mention of either of his marriages, or of his reportedly on-going relationship with his manager, with whom he has two children. As far as the film is concerned, Sakamoto lives and works alone...Television’s appetite for films like this one is so voracious that most pass by more or less unexamined; criticism of the form of such ‘arts docs’ remains stuck at a fairly primitive level...Schible’s film is far from the worst offender among recent arts docs, {but while} Its picture of Sakamoto recovering from cancer and getting his musical juices flowing again is mildly diverting, its impact is minimal and its methods are desultory.
His private life was evidently off-limits: there’s no mention of either of his marriages, or of his reportedly on-going relationship with his manager, with whom he has two children. As far as the film is concerned, Sakamoto lives and works alone...
Television’s appetite for films like this one is so voracious that most pass by more or less unexamined; criticism of the form of such ‘arts docs’ remains stuck at a fairly primitive level...
Schible’s film is far from the worst offender among recent arts docs, {but while} Its picture of Sakamoto recovering from cancer and getting his musical juices flowing again is mildly diverting, its impact is minimal and its methods are desultory.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
actually, I can paste the whole review from a pdf, if you want, but that's pretty much it.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
fwiw, Rayns had much more interesting things to say about Schrader's First Reformed in the same issue. He didn't like that either.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
amazing detail in that restaurant music piece:
It was also not very loud, and here we arrive at an issue that may concern older customers more than younger ones. Mr. Sakamoto objects to loud restaurant music, and often uses a decibel meter on his phone to measure the volume of the sound around him.
would love to eat at a restaurant with that playlist tbh.
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link
I want to eat in that restuarnat the next time I am in NYC
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 July 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
that sakamoto dinner time playlist is excellent, by the way.
for those with spotify, search "The Kajitsu Playlist". it's good BGM for dinner, perhaps, but it's also good BGM for wandering around your house and living
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
cool, thx
― sleeve, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Saw the film last night in San Francisco, absolutely loved it
― joshywinty (josh), Saturday, 28 July 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
I saw sakamoto in kajitsu a few years ago! it's a wonderful restaurant.
I can't say I loved the doc, but if you're a fan, I see no reason not to catch it. it's enjoyable. I esp liked the field recording scenes.
not much YMO content tho, it's pretty focused on his solo material and especially the last few years. I caught a Q&A session with RS and the director and they mentioned that interviews with hosono and takahashi specifically conducted for the film were edited out. oof!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Caught 'Coda' on telly last night. A very ambient documentary, no real narrative, just being able to see Sakamoto hunt for and record sounds, playing about in the studio, reminiscing. Needles to say I loved it. What a handsome man he is, too. See this if you can.
Favourite scene: Him trying to get a nice sound on his terrace. He puts a glass vase upside down to record the ticking of the rain drops, but it's not quite what he's after. He then picks up a blue bucket, looks at it for a while, and then puts it on his head, steps outside, and we see him from behind listening to the rain fall on the bucket on his head. Tranquil and endearing.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 September 2018 07:33 (six years ago) link
yea I've heard a lot about what this doc *isn't* so I've been wondering what exactly it is. if it's just 2 hours of him messing around i'll still watch it
― frogbs, Friday, 7 September 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
I saw it a couple of months ago, and I thought it was great. Doesn't interrogate him very hard, but it's a v enjoyable 90 mins of hanging out with an interesting guy who does interesting things in an interesting way.
― bamboohouses, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
@Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_)Could you please post the full review of Tony Wayns of Coda? I'm very interested to know what else he said. I searched with Google but could not find the review. Thanks!
― brunhild, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
anybody heard the 2015 deluxe reissue of Ongaku Zukan/Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia? fully loaded with bonus tracks + a whole extra disc of unreleased stuff
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/Ryuichi-Sakamoto-%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%E5%9B%B3%E9%91%91-Ongaku-Zukan-2015-Edition/release/6830161
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
Wow! No, but I want to.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 25 October 2018 03:11 (five years ago) link
It's fantastic. Also, weirdly, it's on Spotify (and I presume a bunch of other stream/download sites): https://open.spotify.com/album/2CI4X2v5UpNLxh6RFpspHR?si=YJFSsKveR9Sj-oPc_lZ5OA
The original Ongakuzukan tracklisting is so much better than the Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia version...
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 25 October 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
It astonishes me that someone with a back catalogue as sprawling as Sakamoto's still has over an hour's worth of unreleased material, makes you wonder how much more there is.
― GG Allin: The Musical (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
uh wow, that looks pretty excellent. will have to be on the lookout.
I wonder if there's any overlap with this:
https://www.discogs.com/Ryuichi-Sakamoto-Works-I-CM/release/2283320
which is mostly Sakamoto doing commercial music, but believe it or not, it's very good
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and Hidariude No Yume were also reissued with bonus discs of outtakes and unreleased stuff, and then there's been four volumes of the Year Book series (the latest volume of which, 1985-1989, has five discs). I think there's a LOT of stuff in the vault!
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
I love his commercial music!
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
listening to the Ongaku Zukan/Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia reissue now, thanks for the head's up! speaking of sakamoto:
.@0PN's next EP for @WarpRecords includes a remix by master composer @ryuichisakamoto https://t.co/FeSnqS0MxL— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) October 25, 2018
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 25 October 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Listening to this as well. A lot of it is basically his fusion album – Japanese melodies over Gaucho-ish horn arrangements, Fairlights pads and electronic percussion. It goes down pretty easily but has some nice 80s production touches. The first track was stuck in head this am and is a full-on YMO reunion cum big band. YMBB?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
This = Ongaku Zukan
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 22 November 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Also, listening to this makes me realize how long it took before I really *got* Sakamoto. I think my first exposure to him was on Sylvian’s first several records and Gentlemen Take Polaroids . I also read the entry about him in the Trouser Press Record Guide (an early bible for me) – the descriptions of his pedigree and Japanese-Western fusion experiments made his records sound incredibly exotic but very little of his catalogue (or YMO’s) was available then (early 90s). When I finally heard Neo Geo, the followup to Ongaku and produced by Bill Laswell (Sakamoto was kind of the designated Fairlight guy in his Session All-Stars around that time – he’s the one noodling at the beginning of the last track on PiL’s Album), I was a little underwhelmed. It was the first of his own releases featuring big names, and while there were hints of what I would eventually love about him, it had fewer textural experiments and less ambition than I had hoped for. The same was largely true of Heartbeat, the two solid Sylvian collaborations aside. It was only when I happened upon a cutout Dutch copy of Left Handed Dream and Technodelic at Borders Books and Music that I began to understand what the fuss was about. Yes, he can be overly sentimental at times but at its best the orchestral and Japanese formalism sounds fabulous juxtaposed with various electronic experiments. Even still, it’s never been very easy to get a complete picture of his output – I’ve still never seen a physical copy of B-2 Unit and I literally just heard Illustrated/Ongaku this week, which are hugely important records in his catalogue.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaNz9M8fs8
this is extremely cool
― frogbs, Saturday, 27 April 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link
maybe my favorite single of the year thus far actually
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
Over the last month I've been really diving into his solo works (with some mixed results). I've been delighted to find albums such as B-2 Unit and Esperanto have finally clicked with me. The original version of Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia was a revelation too. Async was the clear standout of his later works although there's still a lot I haven't listened to.
The biggest find is the Works I - CM compilation mentioned a couple of times on this thread by frogbs. That is an incredible collection of music that I've probably played ten times in the last week alone. Great tip on that one!
― kitchen person, Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
Isn’t it though? Love it!
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 March 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
I honestly can't stop listening to it. I notice there is a volume two as well. Hopefully that's a similar quality as I'm going to need another fix soon.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 26 March 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
nice, thanks for bumping it!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 March 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
https://pc.video.dmkt-sp.jp/ft/s0007155
It looks like Sakamoto is doing a live streaming performance next week on something called DTV, who also seem to be streaming a few other gigs of his from the last few years.
It being a Japanese streaming site, it appears to be completely locked down (I couldn't get anything to play even with a VPN) but someone here might have better luck than me?
― bamboohouses, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
So the stream seems to be up and running here: https://pc.video.dmkt-sp.jp/ti/10000238 Working fine VPN'ed into Japan.
They're showing a 2011 gig now, apparently the live stream starts at 7pm Japan time. (11am here in London!)
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 2 April 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6td9KUZMfw&pbjreload=10
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 18 May 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link
hmm not sure if that worked... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6td9KUZMfw
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 18 May 2020 07:20 (four years ago) link