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Album Review

Asynchrone: Plastic Bamboo

Read "Plastic Bamboo" reviewed by Chris May


Put preconceptions aside and cast no nasturtiums. Against expectations, the free(ish) jazz / electro mash-up Plastic Bamboo is a winner, convincingly bringing together the unpredictability of the one with the robotic iterations of the other. The album collects eleven pieces written or co-written by Ryuichi Sakamoto, a founder member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978 and composer of soundtracks for hit movies including Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Sheltering Sky (1990) and The Revenant (2015). Sakamoto wrote great tunes ...


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