Ryuichi Sakamoto - Silk - Original Soundtrack - VINYL LP

The original soundtrack of the film InchThe RevenantInch! Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Comes as a heavyweight 2LP set. Inarritu's 2016 work is a masterpiece that won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Actor. Sakamoto accepted the request even though he was in poor health, recovering from oropharyngeal cancer he had been diagnosed with in 2014. The completed soundtrack became a masterpiece in the history of film music.

Silence plays as vital a role as melody in this spare score by the late Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, a contemplative soundtrack that moves with grace and restraint and allows tension to gather in the spaces between notes. Strings dominate most pieces, shifting from hushed tremors to slow, deliberate crescendos, while clarinet and bass flute drift through tracks such as Small Happiness and Fishing with a gentle, reflective presence. Elsewhere, a solitary drumbeat marks the ominous tension and looming threat of God Of Death, adding a stark contrast to the album's quieter passages. Unfolding like a meditation on honour and grief, the music possesses a devastatingly quiet beauty and a profound emotional impact that lingers long after the final note.

Vinyl LP pressing. Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1985 synth and ambient album featuring Yas-Kaz and Arto Lindsay is released outside of Japan for the first time with new introduction by Andy Beta and audio remastered in Tokyo by Seigen Ono.