Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Milan Records is proud to Inch12,Inch an intimate collection of twelve compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto, written and recorded in Tokyo during his fight with cancer throughout 2021-2022. Each numbered title refers to it's recording date. About the album, Sakamoto says Inch... after I finally Inchcame homeInch to my new temporary housing after a big operation, I found myself reaching for the synthesizer. I had no intention of composing something; I just wanted to be showered in sound. I'll probably continue to keep this kind of Inchdiary.Inch Album Tracks 1. 20210310 2. 20211130 3. 20211201 4. 20220123 5. 20220202 6. 20220207 7. 20220214 8. 20220302 - Sarabande 9. 20220302 10. 20220307 11. 20220404 12. 20220304

Famed worldwide as a film composer, Ryiuchi Sakamoto began his career as a pianist, creating patterns, phrases and innovative arrangements before joining his first commercial electronic pop band in 1978, the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Around the same time, he worked on his first solo album, the Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978), which blends up-to-date electronic techniques with an old-fashioned gift for good tunes. Riot in Lagos brought him fame beyond Japan, and he went on to work with many top producers of pop, dance and electro. In 1983, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence launched Sakamoto's career as a film composer, which has gone from strength to strength with scores for The Last Emperor (1987) and The Revenant (2015). All these pieces feature in Jeroen van Veen's survey, which is based on the best modern edition of these scores and often differs from Sakamoto's own, partly improvised recordings. Classical listeners will appreciate Sakamoto's breadth of reference to Chopin (Ubi), Bach (Andata, Solari), Glass (Bibo no Aozora), Satie (Opus), Brahms (Intermezzo) and Ravel (Bachata), for example. But his language of minimalist jazz is one enjoyed around the world as music that gives listeners the space to think and work and create for themselves.

Vinyl LP pressing. Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the of Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic LP InchCodaInch, issued in Japan in 1983 as a solo piano version of the InchMerry Christmas Mr. LawrenceInch soundtrack. The album, which was never been released outside of Japan until now, sees Sakamoto on acoustic piano reinterpreting fascinating versions of his famous soundtrack including the classic theme and InchGermination,Inch which was later used in the InchCall Me By Your NameInch soundtrack. This reissue has been remastered by Seigen Ono's Saidera Mastering studio in Tokyo and boasts the original artwork plus a 8-page booklet with new liner notes by Andy Beta. Album Tracks 1. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 2. Batavia 3. Germination 4. Hearty Breakfast 5. Before the War 6. Seed and the Sower 7. Brief Encounter 8. Ride Ride Ride 9. Fight 10. Dismissed!/Assembly 11. Beyond Reason 12. Sowing the Seed 13. Last Regrets 14. Seed 15. Japan 16. Coda