Home » Search Center » Results: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Results for "Ryuichi Sakamoto"
Results for pages tagged "Ryuichi Sakamoto"...
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Born:
When Ryuichi Sakamoto was a high schooler in Tokyo, he had to ride a commuter train to get to class. The passengers were always crammed on, trapping one another between stray limbs and contorted torsos. Unable to move, all the teenage Sakamoto could do was listen. He amused himself by counting the sounds the train made, identifying more than 10 that he would listen out for every morning.
Close listening is a habit that has carried Sakamoto through nearly 70 years of musical exploration, each decade leading him in new directions. He was born in 1952, the year John Cage composed 4′33″. When he was a toddler, he was introduced to the piano, an instrument he would go on to examine from many Cageian angles. As the ’70s bled into the ’80s, he segued from an ethnomusicology and composition degree to the role of keyboardist and songwriter for Yellow Magic Orchestra, the proto-synthpop group led by Haruomi Hosono. In the solo career years that followed, Sakamoto’s embrace of a new wave of electronic instruments led to fruitful experiments in fusing global genres, which in turn made way for close studies of classical impressionism. Many times over Sakamoto’s sonic path has leapt forward then looped back on itself, forever telling the present something of both its past and future.
Chris Potter Circuits al Blue Note Milano
by Paolo Peviani
Chris Potter Circuits Blue Note Milano 9.4.2019 L'ultimo album pubblicato da Chris Potter, Circuits, realizzato in compagnia di James Francies alle tastiere, Eric Harland alla batteria e Linley Marthe al basso, ci ha permesso di cogliere alcune sfaccettature della personalità del sassofonista che finora erano rimaste in secondo piano. In ...
async Remodels
Label: Milan Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Andata (Oneohtrix Point Never Rework); Andata (Electric Youth Remix) ; Disintegration (Alva Noto
Remodel); Async (Arca Remix); Fullmoon (Motion Graphics Remix); Solari (Fennesz Remix); Solari
(Jóhann Jóhannsson Rework); ZURE (Yves Tumor Obsession Edit); Fullmoon (S U R V I V E Version);
ZURE (Cornelius Remix); Life, Life (Andy Stott Remodel).
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Naturally Born to Seek Diversity
by Nenad Georgievski
Japanese composer and New York resident Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a career unlike anyone else. For more than 40 restless years, since the days of Yellow Magic Orchestra, he has been a musician that many other musicians have followed closely and probably no other popular musician has had a broader or a deeper catalog. To experience ...
Stephen Nomura Schible: I wanted to make an intimate portrait of Ryuichi Sakamoto
by Nenad Georgievski
Japanese composer, pianist, and producer Ryuichi Sakamoto has always resisted an easy definition or description. Taken into account his illustrious and vast output which has spanned over different decades and fashions, he has been at the center and outer fringes of shaping contemporary music. For many, he is one of the greatest exponents of ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto: Glass
by Nenad Georgievski
It's a rare occasion these days when a certain album manages to shake quietly the foundation of what music is and what it can be. It's very difficult to position an album that breaks all its precedents through an approach that blends a live performance and improvisation. Glass is the latest collaboration between composer Sakamoto and ...
Erik Friedlander: Rings
by Jakob Baekgaard
Repetition is sometimes seen as a bad thing. The mundane cycle of everyday life involving the same actions. However, it is only through repetition that differences can occur. A weekend is only special because it stands out as a difference from the ordinary week. But repetition is not only useful as a way of appreciating difference, ...
Miho Hazama: Time River
by Angelo Leonardi
Sono anni importanti per il jazz orchestrale. L'emergere di giovani arrangiatori e bandleader iniziato di recente con Jason Lindner, Darcy James Argue, Ryan Truesdell, Kyle Saulnier e altri non s'è fermato, anche grazie al ruolo formativo del New England Conservatory e della Manhattan School of Music. È da lì che vengono alcuni dei nomi ...
Mirko Signorile: Soundtrack Cinema
by Neri Pollastri
Primo lavoro in solitudine del pianista pugliese Mirko Signorile, questo album raccoglie, come da titolo, alcuni brani tratti da colonne sonore cinematografiche, ma anche--e soprattutto--composizioni dello stesso Signorile. Lo stile adottato alla tastiera è sostanzialmente classico, le interpretazioni sono sfumate e personali, sospese e affascinanti, tuttavia raramente sorprendono o si sviluppano in situazioni capaci ...
