https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaNz9M8fs8
this is extremely cool
― frogbs, Saturday, 27 April 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
maybe my favorite single of the year thus far actually
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2019 14:45 (four 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 (three years ago) link
hmm not sure if that worked... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6td9KUZMfw
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 18 May 2020 07:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv3Iqzpv3_I
In this documentary, filmed while he was recording Ongaku Zukan, Sakamoto mentions that he has recorded 30 tracks for the album from which he will choose ten, so I'm guessing that's where the supplemental material for the reissue came from.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Realized this am that the record he produced and arranged for Virginia Astley, Hope in a Darkened Heart, is really required listening for anyone interested in Ryuichi’s mid-80s classy orchestral Fairlight experimental pop phase, a la Ongaku Zukan and his contemporaneous work w David Sylvian. It’s a legitimately weird record – with nursery rhyme-melodies sung in Astley’s little girl falsetto over Ryuichi’s booming gated drums, sequenced music boxes and gamelans. The duet with Sylvian himself that leads off the record is a pretty unique entry in his catalogue: https://open.spotify.com/track/5nwDAFzUqt7hVVsKoWGcJN?si=xX7P9oCVScqGde8qpsO5eg
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 7 December 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Ohhh! Thanks for the recommendation, sounds ace!
― Maresn3st, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
It is! And if you want to go the Bandcamp route
https://virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 December 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Finally watched the Playing Piano for the Isolated concert last week. It's great!
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Monday, 7 December 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
NIT's spotify link is to a mellow 80's compilation :)Still, having checked the Virginia Astley album, I thank you! Lovely stuff, esp. the latter half. Loved reading up on her, too
― willem, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
69 years old today
he's currently flooding Twitter with birthday wishes causing me to come to the realization that he is a strikingly handsome man, even today
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
nice
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
Bad news:
https://thequietus.com/articles/29458-ryuichi-sakamoto-diagnosed-bowel-cancer
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Thursday, 21 January 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
Nooooooooooooooooooo :(
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
Oh man :(
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
ugh, hopefully he pulls through :(
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
Ah, fuck. :(
― pomenitul, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
jesus, no
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
hoping the best for him. Takahashi had a brain tumor removed just a few months ago, as well. :(
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
its hard to gauge the tone of YT's social media posts, he seems optimistic but apparently he's not out of the woods yet
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
the one time I randomly catch an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BuelFc2j1VM/
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
Heart does a flip again now when I see this thread bumped.
― The Goodies font (Maresn3st), Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Me too :(
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Then enjoy this instead, as he has the closing track
https://modernobscuremusic.bandcamp.com/album/prsnt
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC5Ry5092Pk
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 11 March 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link
now here's a powerful image
https://i.imgur.com/RtP0rpZ.png
― frogbs, Monday, 12 April 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
I would listen to this crossover.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 April 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
btw before anyone asks I have no idea what the context of this is, I just saw it in a YMO FB group. i wish i knew
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 01:16 (three years ago) link
Money MarkFebruary 24, 2012Ryuichi Sakamoto, Keith Emerson!…i’m standing with two of the very best!!….YMO,ELP….backstage,Hollywood Bowl
― visiting, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
new album is heavy. maybe it's knowing about his health struggles, maybe it's because YT recently passed, but wow is there a lot of weight to what is essentially a solo piano album (there are some synths too of course). you can even hear him breathing throughout. almost sounds like he's struggling sometimes.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
like I'm listening on headphones and I keep thinking someone is behind me
― frogbs, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
While I thought async was elegiac this new one, 12, is almost too much.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:28 (one year ago) link
oh man, yeah, “heavy” is the right word. I’m usually not a fan of his solo piano stuff either but this one is hitting differently for sure. haven’t quite decided if it’s due to the circumstances but don’t think it’s just that. hits pretty hard in any case and isn’t something i can just throw on casually.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 26 January 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
the least interesting ymo member. i consider his solo output pretty overrated. on the other hand, hosono and takahashi solo material is pretty consistent.
― CerebralCaustic, Friday, 27 January 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
― CerebralCaustic, Friday, 27 January 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
Geeta Dayal with an excellent piece on the album:
https://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/ryuichi-sakamoto
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
CerebralCaustic, I can understand that opinion if you're solely judging based on solo albums. But have you checked out Sakamoto's production/arrangement work? It's incredible. Taeko Onuki and Akiko Yano's early-to-mid '80s albums, for starters? It's incredible.
― Tough Cookie, Friday, 27 January 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
12 has turned into a daily play for me. i hope he can release more music, but if he doesn't, it's a powerful final act.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 January 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
xxpost nonsense
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 27 January 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
fwiw Sakamoto is my "least favorite" of the three too, only because Hosono's music is very spiritual and precious to me and Takahashi has done so much stuff I absolutely love, while Sakamoto has a bunch of albums I'm just not really too interested in. that said I still love him and own a lot of his solo albums. so "least favorite" isn't really a term I like using. pound for pound surely YMO is one of the greatest bands in history
― frogbs, Friday, 27 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
Geeta's review was nice. wonder what she's been up to?? not posting on ILX I see.
― frogbs, Friday, 27 January 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
This sounds fun. Guess I'll probably get to see it at Big Ears.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpAnOjCM7iB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 February 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
agree on Hosonos output being the most consistently good one,but Sakamoto and Takahashi both had their fair share of bland assembly-line productions, no?Both LOTS of great ones too, obviously...I think async is the best Sakamoto has been on album length in a long time, really love that one.Have yet to hear 12.
― Pagoda, Friday, 24 February 2023 10:26 (one year ago) link
say it ain't so Sakamoto
A Q&A about 12 with @commmons and Ryuichi Sakamoto17/20 全体を通して「プログレッシブ ロック」的な感じがしたのですが、いわゆるプログレ感を意識されることはあったのでしょうか?The whole album has a progressive rock vibe to it but did you have this in mind?— ryuichi sakamoto (@ryuichisakamoto) March 22, 2023
全くありません。人生でプログレが好きになったことも影響を受けたこともありません。Not at all. I’ve never in my life liked prog rock and I’ve never been influenced by it either.#skmtnews #ryuichisakamoto #坂本龍一 #twelve— ryuichi sakamoto (@ryuichisakamoto) March 22, 2023
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link