Ryuichi Sakamoto

   
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Jazz
   Soundtrack
   Progressive
   Easy Listening
   

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Discography:


   
 Chasm

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Morelenbaum - Sakamoto, A Day In New York

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sweet Revenge

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Prayer, Salvation

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Discord

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 4


   
 Anger,Grief

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 5


   
 Smoochy

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 13


   
 1996

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 15


   
 Wild Palms

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 18


   
 Wuthering Heights

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 25


   
 NEO GEO

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 Heartbeat

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Shetering Sky

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 21


   
 Beauty

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11


   
 Esperanto

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 8


   
 Tibetan Dance

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 13


   
 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 19


   
 Thousand Knives

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 6

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The driving force behind "Neo Geo" -- a cutting edge spinal fusion combine Asian and Western classical music with former planetary textures and rhythms -- pioneering electronic composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was among the nigh innovative artists to emerge during the 1980s. Born January 17, 1952, in Tokyo, he took up pianissimo at the eld of 3, and on a regular basis performed in jazz bands piece in high schooltime. Sakamoto's catholic melodious tastes open him to everyone from the Beatles to Beethoven and John Cage, and he was besides heavily influenced by new wave filmmaking; he went on to study electronic music at Tokyo's University of Art, and later graduating formed the techno-pop trine Yellow Magic Orchestra. Informed by the robotic iconography of Kraftwerk, the YMO became monolithic stars in their native Japan; their 1980 single "Estimator Game" even reached the Top 20 in Britain.


Patch still in the Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto also issued his first solo endeavor, 1978's Grand Knives Of; deuce eld later he returned with B-2 Unit, and the brobdingnagian differences 'tween the deuce discs gave a unclutter indication of the mercurial eclectic method that would delimit the remainder of his work. After the YMO's 1983 breakup, Sakamoto chased his solo career full-time, achieving his artistic and commercial breakthrough that same year with his acclaimed score to the moving picture Festive Christmas Mr. Lawrence (in which he also acted). The soundtrack likewise marked one of respective collaborations between Sakamoto and David Sylvian, just unrivalled of his many challenging musical unions; other performers with whom he worked included Thomas Dolby (on 1986's Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia), Iggy Pop, Bootsy Collins, Tony Williams (on 1988's Neo Geo), and David Byrne, with whom he co-wrote the Academy Award-winning scotch to the 1987 film The Last Emperor.


Other whole kit and boodle of bill include the score to Pedro Almodovar's Heights Heels and 1990's Beauty, Sakamoto's English-language debut, which featured cameos from Brian Wilson and Robbie Robertson. In 1993, he united a reunited Yellow Magic Orchestra to record book the LP Technodon, and in 1998 returned with Strife, his first exercise of classical music. Pre Life in Progress followed a twelvemonth later on, as did The Complete Index of Gut. Sakamoto remained a fertile personnel in the future decade as comfortably, issuance Internal in early 1999.





Elodie Frege