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
It's cool. I have never heard any Prog influence in RS or his projects. Dunno what the person asking the question was listening to.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
It’s an ambient electronic piece? I am still digging into that record somewhat. It’s mixed for 360 reality audio which is pretty cool. But I honestly don’t get the prog connection at all.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 23 March 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
【訃報】音楽家の坂本龍一さん死去 71歳https://t.co/PQ6k4eokvv80年代に3人組バンド・YMOで世界的ヒット曲を生み出した。映画音楽でも知られ、88年には米映画『ラストエンペラー』で米アカデミー作曲賞を日本人で初めて受賞。晩年はがん闘病が続いたが、最後まで音楽作りに情熱を注いだ。 pic.twitter.com/n7DlL2UdpA— ライブドアニュース (@livedoornews) April 2, 2023
RIP!
― ufo, Sunday, 2 April 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/mYLMEN6HrZ— ryuichi sakamoto (@ryuichisakamoto) April 2, 2023
― ufo, Sunday, 2 April 2023 12:51 (one year ago) link
:*(
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
Oh no
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
Ah damn. But such legacies he and Takahashi left.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
I was just asking my friend in Tokyo what the deal was when YT passed, and it was front-page news. Sakamoto is probably more well-known. He said it was announced on the little TVs they have on the Yamanote line.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link
😞
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 2 April 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
Oof. Fuckin cancer.
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
been dreading this news, what a life and career
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Sunday, 2 April 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
he lived an amazing life and left behind so much good music. RIP Sakamoto
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
Oh no 😢
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
His latest record was already haunting but man it’s too much to bear right now
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Listening to 12 this morning (for the first time in a month or two) was definitely a changed experience.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
an artist that, once i discovered him, has never really fallen out of favor or rotation. over half my life now, have always just had him "around" but never really considered him a favorite for whatever reason (seems like he pretty much was the whole time). looking back, very cliche, but what a wholly legendary resume. hard to know what to say when an innovator of his calibre leaves. unending respect. rest well.
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Sunday, 2 April 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
I braced for this everytime I saw a headline about him over the last 7 or so years. I suppose the inevitable is inevitable, and think it’s inspiring that he wasn’t just active until the end, but also through cancer and into his 70s. What an absolute legend. I’m grateful for what RS has given this world.
― ed.b, Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
YMO were always such a perfect band for me, because they resembled the 3 parts of a person - YT had the looks, HH had the soul, and RS had the brains. Sakamoto was on a very similar wavelength to Brian Eno, someone who clearly thought about music on a deep and philosophical level. There was such purpose to everything he did, and holy hell did he do a lot of it. async in particular, it says so much despite being fairly minimal. tbh this kind of prevented me from getting into his stuff as much as Takahashi's (whose work is a lot more fun) or Hosono's (whose stuff is more warm and spiritual) - everything Sakamoto did outside of his pop phase had a very particular heaviness to it. His last two especially. async feels like it's bearing the weight of the world. 12 confronts his own mortality in such a direct manner. It's hard to listen to sometimes. But man, it's such brilliant stuff.
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto.Here he is with anti-nuke mascot Monju-kun in 2012. pic.twitter.com/zqpVTHa2CM— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) April 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 2 April 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
God damn it. RIP.
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 April 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
So many heroes going. It's a sadness that can be overwhelming. But we will always have the music.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
^^^I've been a fan of RS since discovering him through his (sensational) contributions to David Sylvian's Secrets of the Beehive, 35 years ago. It's like hearing that an old friend has died. A true titan. RIP.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
I was thinking, was that Hosono concert at the Barnican the last time YMO played together?
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
*Barbican
RIP, what a legend
thought this recent statement he made was beautiful
"Since I have made it this far in life, I hope to be able to make music until my last moment, like Bach and Debussy whom I adore."
i think i will dig out the first mari iijima record, love the songs they did on that one
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
Belatedly discovering the broader YMO universe in 2019 was probably the last time I got really excited about a whole swath of music that was more or less unknown to me. I'm grateful that he left behind so much, because I've still only scratched the surface — but I'm angered that he's gone, because I knew he was fighting to keep going and 71 seems too young. It probably doesn't help that I was just reading about diminishing life expectancy trends in different parts of the world. RIP, anyway!
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
Rip to a good one
― nxd, Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
RIP, spinning BGM right now
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 2 April 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Often find BTTB a little sentimental, but it's hitting the spot right now. Farewell, Ryuichi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyhpyJTyXg
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 2 April 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
there are like 3 or 5 sakamoto docs out there, anyone here seen multiple who recommend the best one?
― flopson, Sunday, 2 April 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
My favorite is Tokyo Melody followed closely by CODA
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
RIP. I'd be remiss not to mentioning that his parody of "Bolero" in Femme Fatale is one of the most thrilling musical jokes in any American(ish) film.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 April 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
Reading the story in the Guardian, I had no idea that Eric Clapton(!) had covered Behind the Mask.
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Sunday, 2 April 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
hell yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MXUJoHyiuw
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 2 April 2023 21:57 (one year ago) link
Biggest RIP. Only 1996 is making sense today.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:10 (one year ago) link
― ionjusit (P. Flick),
His greatest recording
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 April 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
most of his recent stuff is depressing the hell outta me right now so instead I'll link this 2019 track that's an interpretation of "Energy Flow" with tabla and two rappers...I'm guessing fans may recognize who these guys are. I think I actually voted this #1 on the ILM 2019 poll...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaNz9M8fs8
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 April 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
I tried listening to /05 today but 'Shining Boy...' is just too much to take, probably his most perfect melody, and oh so very sad. I switched to a B-2 Unit live bootleg instead.
― MaresNest, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
For some non-depressing RS, this is just a long string of concise bangershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9intgzzLfk
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Monday, 3 April 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
ahh yeah, his commercial jingles were so good - as an album this would be like, top 5 for me
https://www.discogs.com/release/2283320-Ryuichi-Sakamoto-Works-I-CM
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
man this sucks. as fate would have it my copy of B-2 Unit arrived a couple days ago, listening now and "Thatness and Thereness" is suddenly heartwrenching
most of the rest, I've suddenly realized, sounds like proto-Autechre, particularly "E3-A" which fooled me into thinking I was listening to Chiastic Slide briefly
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
its one of those like E2-E4 where every time I see the release year I do a double take
― frogbs, Monday, 3 April 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
Saw some weird TV mini-series called Wild Palms which he did the score. That stood out to me. I've been meaning to listen to Yellow Magic Orchestra too. RIP.
― lilsoulbrother, Monday, 3 April 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
thanks for the tokyo melody rec upthread
the “tong poo” scene was so cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHhksjfg8Ik
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 3 April 2023 03:55 (one year ago) link
i like all the headlines calling him a 'pop star' because that's a sort of odd idea of what ymo were although i guess not completely incorrect
― ufo, Monday, 3 April 2023 05:04 (one year ago) link
They were definitely pop stars in Japan.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 3 April 2023 05:43 (one year ago) link