Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto – Travesía (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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“Travesía” is an album of music by prolific composer, producer, and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto curated by five-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. The compilation album features twenty tracks handpicked by Iñárritu, who famously collaborated with Sakamoto on his Best Picture-winning film, The Revenant. Taking it’s name from the Spanish term for “journey,” Travesía spans nearly four decades of Sakamoto’s solo work and scores, with Iñárritu taking listeners on a one-of-a-kind trip through the iconic musician’s career Travesía is the result of six months’ work by Iñárritu, who listened to over a thousand pieces by Sakamoto in order to curate the album’s 20-song tracklist. Focusing primarily on the musician’s solo work, Iñárritu deliberately chose some of Sakamoto’s lesser-known tracks in an attempt to appeal to both frequent listeners as well as a new generation of fans. Also included on the album is a new, never-before-heard mix of “The Revenant Main Theme” by Sakamoto’s long-time collaborator Alva Noto, who worked alongside Iñárritu and Sakamoto on the 2015 blockbuster hit.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – async (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 17, 2024 · 0 Comment

Ryuichi Sakamoto - async (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

async is the nineteenth solo studio album of Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and his first one in eight years since Out of Noise (2009). It is also his first full-length solo record since recovering from throat cancer in 2015. Consisting of a combination of bizarre interpretations of familiar musical instruments, unusual textures both acoustic and electronically-made, samples of recordings of people such as David Sylvian and Paul Bowles doing readings, and everyday sounds borrowed from field recordings of city streets, async has underlying themes of the worries of the end of life and the interaction of differing viewpoints in humanity.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto – async (immersion 2023) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 14, 2024 · Comments off

“async – immersion 2023″ is a sound installation that appeals to the eyes, ears, and nose. The sound of the album “async” released in 2017 by the late Professor Ryuichi Sakamoto will be experienced in a special multi-channel sound environment, and will be shown along with visuals and art by Shiro Takatani.

“In the wake of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s untimely death in March 2023, Shiro Takatani (member of the company Dumb Type, which has graced a number of Australian festivals) created a new version, async – immersion 2023, of his collaboration with Sakamoto. Specifically designed for the vast dark industrial basement of the Shinbun Kyoto building in this year’s Ambient Kyoto, and blending Sakamoto’s music in exquisite three-dimensional sound with Takatani’s seemingly endless sequence of images (including landscape, library, seascape, Sakamoto’s work tools and a piano wrecked by the 2011 tsunami, which reignited Sakamoto’s anti-nuclear activism) and their digital manipulation, this work exemplifies everything that a massive screen-based immersion can achieve: meditative, reflective, technically faultless. In the ninety minutes I spent there, only one image was repeated and then in different format: I could have stayed there all day.”

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Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Insen (Remastered & Expanded) (2005/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 8, 2023 · Comments off

Originally released in 2005, Insen is the second collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the second installment of V.I.R.U.S.‘s five albums series. Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album’s recordings are accompanied by an unreleased composition titled Barco. Initially composed for Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 2005 Insen tour, the audio material used in this piece is based on the subtle sounds of Barco projectors, whose tonalities served as a ground for the artists’ live improvisation.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Monster (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 28, 2023 · Comments off

The soundtrack for the film “Kaibutsu” (Monster), with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, will be released on May 31. The film “Kaibutsu” will be released on June 2 and is directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and written by Yuji Sakamoto. The cast includes Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Souya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shido Nakamura, and Yuko Tanaka. The album contains seven songs, including “20220207” and “20220302” from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first original album in six years, “12,” as well as two songs newly written for the film.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives (1978) [Japanese Reissue ‘2016] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, composer, arranger, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, actor, and activist, based in Tokyo and New York. He began his career in the 1970s, first gaining major success in 1978 as a member of electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives. The album is named after Henri Michaux’s description of the feel of using mescaline in Misérable Miracle. It was recorded in about 500 hours, and Sakamoto would spend whole days without sleeping working on it.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner – The Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner – The Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2015)
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The Revenant is a story of loss, revenge and resilience in the face of impossible odds against the furies of man and nature itself. The film is heavily favored to be a critical darling as awards season gets under way. Director Iñárritu has chosen to forgo almost all dialogue in favor of a gorgeous soundscape and a sweeping score. A film of this magnitude deserves a composer who understands creative artistry and unbridled passion. Japanese master and Oscar winner Ryuichi Sakamoto (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor) fits the bill perfectly. Along with fellow Yellow Magic Orchestra member and frequent collaborator Alva Noto, Sakamoto has created a gripping soundtrack that is sure to be a treat for the winter crowds. Bryce Dessner (writer for Kronos Quartet and the LA Phil) also supplies additional music.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Playing the Piano 12122020 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

~ Features Ryuichi Sakamoto’s online piano concert held on December 12, 2020. ~

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Playing the Piano 2013 in Yokohama (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一[a], Sakamoto Ryuichi, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Coda (1983/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer. The evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. “Coda” is a compilation album, originally released in Japan. All titles except “Japan” and “Coda” originally recorded for the soundtrack of the motion picture “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – BTTB (Back To The Basics) (1998/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

The remastered edition will feature liner notes from famed author Haruki Murakami. For the album’s reissue, Murakami writes: “Personal and intimate music – somebody (an anonymous somebody) sitting alone in front of the school piano early in the morning, weaving a melody, exploring harmonies. Music that gradually fills a space with high ceilings that contains the wafting presence of rain.”

“But music that leaves gaps where necessary. Once in a while, we need music like this and this way of being…no, perhaps all the time. We need it as much as we need hot black coffee at the break of dawn and a cat napping next to us in the afternoon.”

An acronym for Back to the Basics, the piano solo record was first issued in 1998 but has been difficult to find outside of Japan since. Comprised of 18 tracks, the LP was partly inspired by Claude Debussy and Erik Satie.

Recently, Sakamoto’s documentary Coda was released online via MUBI. He also published a playlist he made for his favourite restaurant in Japan via The New York Times, featuring tracks from Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never and more.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – Beckett (Music from the Netflix Film) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

Milan Records will release a soundtrack album for the thriller Beckett. The album features the film’s original music composed by Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Revenant, Little Buddha, Snake Eyes).

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – B-2 Unit (Remastered) (1980/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 23, 2023 · Comments off

Released in 1980 while Yellow Magic Orchestra was enjoying its first wave of mega-success, B-2 Unit was Ryuichi Sakmoto’s second full length solo effort. Contrasting with the pop-oriented works Sakamoto was doing with YMO at the time, B-2 Unit was produced with a focus on sounds and tones rather than traditional song strucutres. B-2 Unit has proven to be very much ahead of its time and extremely influential in the development of electronic music. “”Riot In Lagos,”” in particular, is often cited as the blueprint for electro/techno sounds that would rise to prominence in the ensuing decade. Recorded in London and Tokyo with dub master Dennis Bovell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Steve Nye, XTC’s Andy Partridge, guitarist Kenji Omura.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – 12 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 5, 2023 · Comments off

Milan Records is proud to release “12,” 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 its recording date. About the album, Sakamoto says: ”….after I finally “came home” 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 “diary.”

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Ryuichi Sakamoto – A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 2, 2023 · Comments off

“A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto – To The Moon And Back” is a collection of reworks of some of the best-known tracks from the legendary composer’s extensive catalog. The Cinematic Orchestra, Thundercat, Devonté Hynes, Hildur Guonadottir, David Sylvian, Electric Youth, Alva Noto and more artists take a fresh look at Ryuichi Sakamoto’s oeuvre on the occasion of his 70th birthday, each crafting their own versions of such well-known pieces as “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” or “The Sheltering Sky.”

The seemingly familiar pieces on “A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto: To The Moon And Back” sound as different as the musical roots of the musicians and producers involved. Synthpop elements, R&B vocals, technoid beats or funk-soul riffs let Sakamoto’s compositions shine in a completely new light.

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