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Ryuichi Sakamotos letztes Album "12" war ein leiser Abschied im Angesicht eines lange angekündigten Todes, der ihn am vergangenen Donnerstag ereilte. Zwölf Miniaturen, Klänge aus den Synthesizern und dem Flügel. Sie waren ihm in seinen letzten Monaten das Einzige, das ihm noch ein Gefühl von Leben und Geborgenheit geben konnte, wie er erzählte. Man hört seinen Atem, im Hintergrund leise Geräusche der medizinischen Geräte, die den Krebskranken am Leben erhielten. Es sind große Töne und Akkorde, mit denen er noch einmal deutlich machte, wie wenig er brauchte, um auszudrücken, was er zu sagen hatte.
So zartfühlig waren früher weder Sakamoto noch seine Musik. In jungen Jahren spielte er Jazz, aber dann gründete er 1978 mit dem Bassisten Haruomi Hosono und dem Schlagzeuger Yukihiro Takashi das Yellow Magic Orchestra. Inspiriert vom Komponisten Isao Tomita und der deutschen Band Kraftwerk produzierten sie eine wilde Mischung aus Elektropop, japanischem Rock und Exotika, die sie bald schon zu einer der maßgeblichsten Bands Asiens machte.
Auf Alben wie "Multiplies", "BGM" und "Technodelia" nahmen sie viel voraus, was später Techno, J-Pop und den Eklektizismus der Achtzigerjahre bestimmte. Es war aber vor allem ihre Respektlosigkeit vor den sonst gerade in Japan so verehrten amerikanischen Vorbildern, die das Yellow Magic Orchestra zu so einer Größe machte. Ausgerechnet mit einer höchst albernen Coverversion des Soul-Klassikers "Tighten Up" schaffen sie es dann auch in die amerikanischen Charts.
Seine Filmmusik für "Der letzte Kaiser" wurde mit dem Oscar geehrt
Ohne die Band wurde Sakamoto bald schon zum internationalen Star. Er arbeitete mit David Byrne, David Sylvian, Iggy Pop und wer es sonst noch so mit seinem Intellekt aufnehmen konnte. In Hollywood holten sie ihn, weil er nicht nur große Melodien schrieb, sondern auch Stimmungen erzeugen konnte. Sakamoto schrieb 48 Soundtracks, für "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" etwa, "Der letzte Kaiser" (für den er einen Oscar bekam) und "The Revenant".
Mit seinen Solo-Alben verließ er die Traditionen des Pop immer weiter. Egal ob mit Flügel, Elektronik, Band oder Orchester, Sakamotos Musik ging immer mehr in die Tiefe und in die Fläche. Musik stand für ihn aber nie für sich selbst, sondern immer in einem größeren Kontext. Als sie in seinem New Yorker Lieblingslokal "Kajitsu" vor ein paar Jahren mal eine Playlist aus brasilianischem Pop, amerikanischem Folk und Jazz spielten, verließ er das Lokal und schrieb dem Wirt, er liebe sein Essen und vielleicht auch das meiste, was in der Playlist gespielt werde, aber das passe alles so gar nicht zusammen.
Warum die spirituelle Erfahrung eines großartigen Mahls und die spirituelle Erfahrung großartiger Musik in einen so störenden Kontext setzen? Sakamoto war es sehr ernst, und so stellte er dem Lokal eine Playlist zusammen, die so etwas wie die Summe seines Hörens in den späten Jahren war. Von John Cage über Mary Lou Williams bis Brian Eno reicht der Horizont, den er da eröffnet, behutsam wie so viele seiner Kompositionen.
Im Jahr 2014 wurde der Krebs erstmals bei ihm diagnostiziert. Nach einer einjährigen Pause kehrte er an die Arbeit zurück. Am Sonntag, dem 28. März wurde nun bekannt, dass er im Alter von 71 Jahren gestorben ist.
Text: Andrian Kreye
This photo belongs to The Asiain Gallery.
These are not flowers but momiji leaves (紅葉), fallen over a pine tree.
Konpukuji (Temple of Golden Bliss) stands in the north-eastern part of Kyoto, not far from Shisendo, in a quiet area which until not too long ago was countryside. It was founded (according to tradition) in the second half of the 9th century by Enchin (Jikaku Daishi), who enshrined a Kannon statue here. Later the temple fell into ruins until it was rebuilt in the 17th century by a priest called Tesshu. At that time it also became a Rinzai Zen temple. It is just a small temple, consisting of only one modest hall, but it is famous among haiku lovers for the Basho Hut (Basho-an) that stands on the low hillside at its back.
The irony is, that it is not certain Basho ever really came here. True, in 1670 he wandered around Kyoto and visited Arashiyama, Kiyotaki and Mt. Hiei. Tradition has it, that he also spent some time in a small cottage in the grounds of Konpukuji, and the above-mentioned priest Tesshu gave that humble dwelling therefore the name "Basho-an." With Rakushisha, it is therefore one of the two Basho-related huts in Kyoto.
The cottage had fallen into ruins when Japan's second great haiku master, Buson (1716-1784), paid a visit here in 1760. In 1776 he started to rebuild it, with the aid of the then priest, Shoso, a work that as only finished in 1781. From 1776 on, Buson would regularly come here in spring and autumn with his disciples, such as Gekkyo, Doryo and Hyakuchi, to hold haiku sessions. (All this, from www.xs4all.nl/~daikoku/haiku/meguri/kuhi-14.htm)
In 1983, the Mexican poet Octavio Paz came to Japan, payed a visit to the Konpukuji and wrote a poem made of a series of haiku:
BASHO AN
El mundo cabe
en diecisiete silabas:
tú en esta choza.
Troncos y paja:
por las rendijas entran
Budas e insectos.
Hecho de aire
entre pinos y rocas
brota el poema.
Entretejidas
vocales, consonantes:
casa del mundo.
Huesos de siglos,
penas ya peñas, montes:
aquí no pesan.
Eso que digo
son apenas tres líneas:
choza de sílabas.
I have not at hand the English version by Eliot Weinberger, but a Japanese one, by my friend Yutaka Hosono:
芭蕉庵
細野 豊・訳
世界は
一七音節におさまり、
あなたはこの小屋にいる。
丸太と藁の、
隙間から仏たちと昆虫が
入ってくる。
松の木と岩の間で
空気でつくられた
詩が芽をだす。
母音と子音が
織り合わされた
世界の家。
幾世紀をも経た骨、
すでに岩石である苦悩、山々、
ここでそれらに重さはない。
私が言うこのことは
たかだか三行にすぎない、
音節でできた小屋。
Shinonome. (Photo downloaded from Wikipedia)
"Although there are various accounts, the currently accepted version is that the Shinonome was bombed by a Dutch flying boat, the X-32. Two bombs hit the ship and a third narrowly missed but the effect was a devastating explosion that ripped the stern off the vessel. The Shinonome sank quickly on 17th December 1941 with the loss of all 228 crew. "
"16 December 1941:
The first landings in northern Borneo take place in Sarawak and Brunei.
17 December 1941:
Provides cover for the invasion landing at Miri, northern Borneo with KUMANO and SUZUYA, light cruiser KINU, seaplane tender KAMIKAWA MARU, DesDiv 12's SHIRAKUMO, MURAKUMO and SHINONOME, subchaser CH-7 and minesweepers W-6 and W-7. Also present are DesDiv 11's FUBUKI and DesDiv 20's SAGIRI.
N of Miri, near Seria. In the darkness, SHINONOME completes escorting minesweeper W-7 and troop transport HIYOSHI MARU to this landing site. Just after dawn, steaming alone off shore, SHINONOME is attacked by Dutch Dornier Do-24 K-1 flying-boat X-32 of Aircraft Group GVT-7 based at Tarakan, E Borneo. Of five 200-kg bombs she drops, the X-32 scores two direct hits and a near-miss. An explosion severs SHINONOME's stern and she sinks quickly with all hands - the first FUBUKI-class destroyer sunk in WWII. [2]
The invasion force goes ashore almost unopposed at Miri, Seria and Lutong. The 2,500 men of MajGen Kawaguchi Kiyotake's "Kawaguchi Detachment" and the No. 2 Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) quickly capture Miri's airfield and oil fields."
HIJMS YURA: Tabular Record of Movement
"On 13 December 1941, the Japanese invasion convoy left Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina, with an escort of the cruiser “Yura” (Rear-Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto) with the destroyers of the 12th Destroyer Division, Murakumo, Shinonome, Shirakumo and Usugumo, submarine-chaser Ch 7 and the aircraft depot ship Kamikawa Maru. Ten transport ships carried the Japanese 35th Infantry Brigade HQ under the command of Major-General Kiyotake Kawaguchi. The Support Force consisted of Rear-Admiral Takeo Kurita with the cruisers Kumano and Suzuya and the destroyers Fubuki and Sagiri.
The Japanese forces intended to capture Miri and Seria, while the rest would capture Kuching and nearby airfields. The convoy proceeded without being detected and at dawn on December 15, 1941, two landing units secured Miri and Seria with only very little resistance from British force. A few hours later, Lutong was captured as well."
"On 19 December 1941 Japanese invasion forces were operating on the northern part of Borneo. Glenn Martin bombers from 2-VIG-I (based at Singkawang) and 1-VIG-I (based at Samarinda) attacked Japanese shipping off Miri during the morning. These were intercepted by F1M2s from Kamikawa Maru and four floatplanes intercepted the separate trios of bombers appearing at 15 minute intervals. Warrant Officer Yatomaru (ZI-16) and NAP 2/C Hosono (ZI-10) attacked and shot down the third bomber of the first flight. This was Glenn Martin M-571 of 2-VIG-I, flown by Lieutenant J. H. Groeneveld. One of the crew was being seen to bale out."
"I have been looking of IJS Shinonome off miri, sarawak for nearly 2.5 years.
So far we have not had much luck beyond eliminating a wreck off the river mouth."
Jared Geller, David J Foster, Sean Lennon and David Newgarden present
WE ARE PLASTIC ONO BAND
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
February 16, 2010
YOKO ONO / PLASTIC ONO BAND
Yoko Ono (vocals), Sean Lennon (guitar, bass, piano), Yuka Honda (keyboard),
Keigo Oyamada (guitar, tenori-on, electronics), Shimmy Hirotaka Shimizu (guitar, bass),
Yuko Araki (drums), Michael Leonhart (trumpet) and Erik Friedlander (cello)
Lobby Art Installations
Wish Tree for BAM (Yoko Ono – 2010)
Apple (Yoko Ono – 1966)
Play It By Trust (Yoko Ono – 1966/1998)
Film No.4 “Bottoms” (Yoko Ono – 1966)
Toilet Thoughts Film No.3 poster (Yoko Ono 1968)
“Sky”, “Dream”, “War Is Over!”, “Imagine Peace” banners (Yoko Ono)
Welcoming Birds
Animation by Jordan Galland | Illustration by Sean Lennon
Opening Film
by Jenny Golden & Sean Lennon
Act I
It Happened
Waiting For The D Train / Why
(with special guest Mark Ronson)
Between My Head and The Sky
Rising
(special guest Haruomi Hosono joins for remainder of Act I)
Walking On Thin Ice
Moving Mountains
Calling
Mind Train / Ask The Elephant
Higa Noboru
Act II
The Sun Is Down
Performed by Scissor Sisters
Animation by Yoji Kuri, from the film AOS (1964)
Edited by Keigo Oyamada
What A Bastard The World Is
Performed by Justin Bond
Oh Yoko
Performed by Gene Ween
Mulberry
Performed by Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore
FLY film by Yoko Ono/John Lennon (1970)
Yes, I’m Your Angel
Performed by Bette Midler with Thomas Bartlett, Jeff Hill,
Michael Leonhart, Sean Lennon, Marcus Rojas
Erik Friedlander, Keigo Oyamada and Shimmy Hirotaka Shimizu
Silverhorse
Performed by Paul Simon and Harper Simon
Hold On
Performed by Paul Simon and Harper Simon
Yer Blues
Performed by Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner
and Sean Lennon
Death of Samantha
Performed by Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner
and Sean Lennon
Don’t Worry Kyoko
Performed by Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner
and Sean Lennon
All songs written by Yoko Ono, except Oh Yoko and Hold On by
John Lennon, and Yer Blues by Lennon/McCartney.
(We regret that Martha Wainwright is unable to perform this evening
as planned. Our thoughts are with her and her family. )
Studio One: Karla Merrifield, Amanda Keeley, Helen Barden, Sibyl Bender, Connor Monahan, Andrew Kachel, Ellen Goldin, Anne Terada, Tolga Olsoy
Advisory: Jonas Herbsman, Peter Shukat, John Gula
Chimera Music: Sean Lennon, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Yuka Honda, David Newgarden, Corrie Deeb
Chimera Japan: Takako Yagi, Maho Ikeda
ImaginePeace.com: Simon Hilton
Manage This!: David Newgarden, Ashley Ayers, Bernadette Kelly, Amy Winslow
Foster Entertainment: David J Foster, Jared Geller, Malinda Sorci, Jennie Connery
Kristen Foster PR
Tell All Your Friends: Kip Kouri, Grace Jones, Molly Small
Pro Travel: Laurie Robinson
Production Manager: Kelly Martindale
Stage Manager: Frank Hartenstein
Transportation Coordinator: Rod Marsden
Hospitality: Melissa Caruso-Scott
Poster design: Marke Johnson, illustration: Sean Lennon
Sound, lighting & technical: Jakey Slater, Tom Pambrun, Kurt Wolf, Gary Hood, Alban Sardzinski, Paul Cress, Peter Gary, Nat Jencks, David Hyman, Scott Seader, Dan Dearnly, Jeff Shaw, Paul Vershbow
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一 ) 🇯🇵
January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023
в январе вспоминали Yukihiro Takahashi из той же компании YMO и вот теперь Рюити
попытался составить список релизов, где Ryuichi отметился сольно, либо как соучастник (YMO) или продюсер, или аранжировщик и клавишник (таких пластинок удивительно много тоже) — получилось 167 альбомов
но это далеко не всё — на discogs он затеган в 2291 (!) издании, правда среди этой массы ~ половина это ремиксы одной песни в каком-нибудь варианте альбома других артистов, не стал их учитывать, не сомневаюсь, что вскоре японцы издадут вообще всё что вышло из под рук маэстро, включая эти многочисленные ремиксы — наследие велико и разнообразно ✨
Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
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RS в других проектах
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Yukihiro Takahashi
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Haruomi Hosono
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...
Ryuichi Sakamoto works
2023. R.Sakamoto - 12
2022. R.Sakamoto - Exception [soundtrack]
2021. R.Sakamoto - Beckett [soundtrack]
2021. R.Sakamoto - Garden Of Shadows & Light - Live
2020. R.Sakamoto - The Staggering Girl [soundtrack]
2020. R.Sakamoto - Minamata [soundtrack]
2020. R.Sakamoto - Love After Love
2019. R.Sakamoto - Black Mirror: Smithereens [soundtrack]
2019. R.Sakamoto - Proxima [soundtrack]
2018. R.Sakamoto - Your Face [soundtrack]
2018. R.Sakamoto, Alva Noto [Carsten Nicolai] - Glass
2018. R.Sakamoto - My Tyrano: Together, Forever [soundtrack]
2018. R.Sakamoto - Year Book 1985-1989 [compilation]
2017. R.Sakamoto - async
2017. R.Sakamoto - The Fortress [soundtrack]
2017. R.Sakamoto - Year Book 1980-1984 [compilation]
2016. R.Sakamoto - Rage [soundtrack]
2016. R.Sakamoto - Plankton (music for an installation)
2016. R.Sakamoto - Year Book 1971-1979 [compilation]
2015. R.Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Illuha - Perpetual
2015. R.Sakamoto - Living With My Mother [soundtrack]
2015. R.Sakamoto - The Revenant [soundtrack]
2015. R.Sakamoto - Year Book 2005–2014 [compilation]
2013. R.Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree - Disappearance
2012. R.Sakamoto - I Have to Buy New Shoes [soundtrack]
2012. R.Sakamoto - Three
2012. R.Sakamoto, Christopher Willits - Ancient Future
2012. R.Sakamoto - Complete Güt Box [compilation]
2011. R.Sakamoto - Dhobi Ghat [soundtrack]
2011. R.Sakamoto, Fennesz - Flumina
2011. R.Sakamoto, Alva Noto - Summvs
2011. R.Sakamoto - Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai [soundtrack]
2010. R.Sakamoto, Taeko Onuki - UTAU
2009. R.Sakamoto - Women Without Men [soundtrack]
2009. R.Sakamoto - Out of Noise
2009. R.Sakamoto - Playing the Piano - Live
2008. R.Sakamoto - Indigo [soundtrack]
2008. R.Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Ensemble Modern - utp_
2008. DJ Spooky - Sound Unbound [Guest musician]
2007. R.Sakamoto - Silk [soundtrack]
2007. R.Sakamoto, Fennesz - Cendre
2007. R.Sakamoto, Christopher Willits - Ocean Fire
2006. R.Sakamoto - Dawn of Mana [soundtrack]
2006. Señor Coconut [Atom™] - Yellow Fever! [Guest musician]
2005. R.Sakamoto - Shining Boy & Little Randy [soundtrack]
2005. R.Sakamoto - Tony Takitani [soundtrack]
2005. R.Sakamoto - /05 [compilation]
2005. R.Sakamoto, Alva Noto - Insen
2005. Nine Horses [David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, Steve Jansen] - Snow Borne Sorrow [Piano]
2004. R.Sakamoto - Chasm
2004. Rodrigo Leão - Cinema [Guest musician]
2004. M-Flo - Astromantic [Guest musician]
2004. Cyndi Lauper - Shine [co-writer]
2004. R.Sakamoto - /04 [compilation]
2004. R.Sakamoto - Seven Samurai 20XX [soundtrack]
2003. R.Sakamoto, Morelenbaum - A Day in New York
2003. R.Sakamoto - Moto_tronic [compilation]
2003. Hector Zazou - Strong Currents [Piano]
2002. R.Sakamoto - Comica
2002. R.Sakamoto, Alva Noto - Vrioon
2002. R.Sakamoto - Femme Fatale [soundtrack]
2002. R.Sakamoto - Century of Reform [soundtrack]
2002. R.Sakamoto - Derrida [soundtrack]
2002. R.Sakamoto - Alexei and the Spring [soundtrack]
2002. R.Sakamoto - Elephantism
2002. R.Sakamoto - Works I – CM [compilation]
2002. Sketch Show - Audio Sponge [keyboards]
2001. R.Sakamoto - Zero Landmine [mini-album]
2001. R.Sakamoto, Morelenbaum - Casa
2001. R.Sakamoto - In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London - Live
2000. R.Sakamoto - L.O.L.: Lack of Love [soundtrack]
2000. R.Sakamoto - Audio Life - Live
2000. David Sylvian - Everything and Nothing [arranger][keyboards]
1999. David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake [arranger][keyboards]
1999. R.Sakamoto - Cinemage - Live
1999. R.Sakamoto - Gohatto [soundtrack]
1999. R.Sakamoto - Poppoya [soundtrack]
1998. R.Sakamoto - BTTB
1998. Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill [keyboards]
1998. R.Sakamoto - Snake Eyes [soundtrack]
1998. R.Sakamoto - The Very Best Of Güt Years 1994-1997 [compilation]
1998. R.Sakamoto - Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon [soundtrack]
1997. R.Sakamoto - Discord - Live
1997. R.Sakamoto - Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 [mini-album]
1997. R.Sakamoto - The Other Side Of Love [soundtrack]
1996. Red Hot Organization - Red Hot + Rio [keyboards]
1996. Arto Lindsay - O Corpo Sutil [Guest musician]
1996. R.Sakamoto - 1996
1995. Geisha Girls - The Geisha Girls Show [producer]
1995. R.Sakamoto - Smoochy
1994. R.Sakamoto - Sweet Revenge
1994. R.Sakamoto - Little Buddha [soundtrack]
1994. R.Sakamoto - Soundbytes [compilation]
1994. Towa Tei - Future Listening! [arranger][keyboards]
1993. R.Sakamoto - Peachboy [soundtrack]
1993. R.Sakamoto - Wild Palms [soundtrack]
1993. YMO - Technodon
1993. Aztec Camera - Dreamland [Co-producer]
1993. R.Sakamoto, Yōsuke Yamashita, Bill Laswell - Asian Games
1992. Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue [Piano]
1992. Caetano Veloso - Circuladô [Guest musician]
1992. R.Sakamoto - High Heels [soundtrack]
1992. R.Sakamoto - Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights [soundtrack]
1992. R.Sakamoto - Tokyo Decadence [soundtrack]
1991. Marisa Monte - Mais [keyboards]
1991. Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses - Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses [Piano, backing vocals]
1991. R.Sakamoto - Heartbeat
1990. R.Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky [soundtrack]
1990. R.Sakamoto - The Handmaid's Tale [soundtrack]
1989. R.Sakamoto - Beauty
1989. R.Sakamoto - Gruppo Musicale [compilation]
1989. R.Sakamoto - Fantasy of Light and Life [soundtrack]
1989. R.Sakamoto - Tengai Makyou: Ziria [soundtrack]
1989. David van Tieghem - Safety in Numbers [keyboards]
1988. R.Sakamoto - Playing the Orchestra - Live
1987. R.Sakamoto - Neo Geo
1987. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive [arranger][keyboards]
1987. R.Sakamoto - Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise [soundtrack]
1987. R.Sakamoto - The Last Emperor [soundtrack]
1986. Public Image Ltd - Album [keyboards]
1986. Yukiko Okada - Venus Tanjō [co-writer]
1986. R.Sakamoto - Media Bahn - Live
1986. Virginia Astley - Hope in a Darkened Heart [producer]
1986. R.Sakamoto - The Adventures of Chatran: Original [soundtrack]
1986. R.Sakamoto - Futurista
1985. R.Sakamoto - Esperanto
1985. Ayuo Takahashi - Memory Theatre [Guest musician]
1985. David Sylvian - Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities [Guest piano]
1985. Taeko Onuki - Copine [arranger][keyboards]
1984. R.Sakamoto - Ongaku Zukan
1984. David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees [keyboards]
1983. R.Sakamoto, Danceries - Chanconette Tedesche
1983. YMO - Naughty Boys
1983. YMO - Service
1983. R.Sakamoto - Coda
1983. R.Sakamoto - Daijōbu, My Friend [soundtrack]
1983. R.Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [soundtrack]
1983. R.Sakamoto - Favorite Visions [compilation]
1983. Mari Iijima - Rose [producer]
1982. R.Sakamoto, Robin Scott - The Arrangement
1982. R.Sakamoto, Danceries - The End of Asia
1982. Yukihiro Takahashi - What, Me Worry? [keyboards]
1981. Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic [keyboards]
1981. Taeko Onuki - Aventure [arranger][keyboards]
1981. R.Sakamoto - Left-Handed Dream
1981. Akiko Yano - Tadaima [producer]
1981. YMO - BGM
1981. YMO - Technodelic
1980. Sandii - Eating Pleasure [keyboards]
1980. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids [co-writer]
1980. Taeko Onuki - Romantique [arranger][keyboards]
1980. R.Sakamoto - B-2 Unit
1980. YMO - Multiplies (a.k.a. Zoshoku)
1979. YMO - Solid State Survivor
1979. R.Sakamoto & The Kakutougi Session - Summer Nerves
1979. Kazumi Watanabe - Kylyn [keyboards]
1979. Keizo Inoue - Intimate [keyboards]
1978. R.Sakamoto - Thousand Knives
1978. YMO - Yellow Magic Orchestra
1978. Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita - Pacific [keyboards]
1978. Haruomi Hosono & The Yellow Magic Band - Paraiso
1978. R.Sakamoto & Kazumi Watanabe - Tokyo Joe [compilation]
1977. Taeko Onuki - Sunshower [arranger][keyboards]
1976. Taeko Onuki - Grey Skies [arranger][ARP Odyssey]
1976. Maki Asakawa - Hi Tomoshi Goro [Organ]
1976. Lily - Auroila [arranger]
1975. R.Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Tsuchitori - Disappointment-Hateruma
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"Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first album by Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Originally released in Japan in 1978, the album was re-released in the United States the following year with new cover art, a more American-friendly mixing (highlighting a punchier equalization and the use of reverb) and without the closing track of 'Acrobat'. Both would later be re-issued in 2003 as a double-disc format, with the American version as the first disc.
The album was intended to be a one-off project for producer and bass player Haruomi Hosono and the two session musicians he had hired: drummer Yukihiro Takahashi and keyboard player Ryuichi Sakamoto; the trio were to recreate Martin Denny's hit 'Firecracker', as well as other original compositions, with modern electronics. The project proved highly popular, culminating in a career for the three musicians; one that would last until 1983, before successful solo careers and reunions over the decades to come.
Both 'Computer Game' tracks proper contain the same audio and were made to sound as if both games were being played in the same room; each track being from the perspective of its titular game unit - Circus and Space Invaders. Circus and several other arcade video games were featured in the promotional film for Tong Poo.
The album was first released in Japan in 1978. It was released in the US on 30 May 1979 by A&M Records on the Horizon label with a new mix by Al Schmitt, new cover art and a slightly different track listing. This 'US version' was subsequently released in Japan on 25 July 1979 by Alfa. Promotional A&M copies were pressed on yellow vinyl.
'Firecracker' was released as a single under the name 'Computer Game'. As such, on early US pressings of the album, 'Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'' and 'Firecracker' were combined as one track, while the firecracker sound effect at the end of the track was indexed by itself as 'Firecracker'. This was corrected on later pressings." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra_(Japan_Mix)
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"Martin Denny was an American piano-player and composer best known as the 'father of exotica.' In a long career that saw him performing well into his 80s, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture.
His combo spawned two successful offshoots: Julius Wechter (of Baja Marimba Band fame) and exotica vibist Arthur Lyman.
Denny was born in New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He studied classical piano and at a young age toured South America for four-and-a-half years with the Don Dean Orchestra. This tour began Denny's fascination with Latin rhythms. Denny collected a large number of ethnic instruments from all over the world, which he used to spice up his stage performances.
After serving in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, Denny returned to Los Angeles where he studied piano and composition under Dr. Wesley La Violette and orchestration under Arthur Lange at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. He also studied at the University of Southern California.
In January 1954, Don the Beachcomber brought Denny to Honolulu, Hawaii for a two-week engagement. He stayed to form his own combo in 1955, performing under contract at the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village on Oahu and soon signing to Liberty Records. The original combo consisted of Augie Colon on percussion and birdcalls, Arthur Lyman on vibes, John Kramer on string bass, and Denny on piano. Lyman soon left to form his own group and future Herb Alpert sideman and Baja Marimba Band founder Julius Wechter replaced him. Harvey Ragsdale later replaced Kramer.
Denny described the music his combo plays as 'window dressing, a background'. It is the perfect complement to the exotic setting of Hawaii. 'A lot of what I'm doing', he stated in Incredibly Strange Music Volume 1, 'is just window dressing familiar tunes. I can take a tune like 'Flamingo' and give it a tropical feel, in my style. In my arrangement of a Japanese farewell song, 'Sayonara', I include a Japanese three-stringed instrument, the shamisen. We distinguished each song by a different ethnic instrument, usually on top of a semi-jazz or Latin beat.'
Denny built a collection of strange and exotic instruments with the help of several airline friends. They would bring Denny back these instruments and he would build arrangements around them. His music was a combination of ethnic styles: South Pacific, the Orient and Latin rhythms.
During an engagement at the Shell Bar, Denny discovered what would become his trademark and the birth of 'exotica.' The bar had a very exotic setting: a little pool of water right outside the bandstand, rocks and palm trees growing around, very quiet and relaxed. As the group played at night, Denny became aware of bullfrogs croaking. The croaking blended with the music and when the band stopped, so did the frogs. Denny thought this to be a coincidence, but when he tried the tune again later, the same thing happened. This time, his bandmates began doing all sorts of tropical bird calls as a gag. The band thought it nothing more than a joke. The next day, though, someone approached Denny and asked if he would do the arrangement with the birds and frogs. The more Denny thought about it, the more it made sense. At rehearsal, he had the band do 'Quiet Village' with each doing a bird call spaced apart. Denny did the frog part on a grooved cylinder and the whole thing became incorporated into the arrangement of 'Quiet Village'.
The Exotica album was recorded in December 1956 and released in 1957. In 1958, Dick Clark hosted Denny on American Bandstand. "Quiet Village" reached #2 on Billboard's charts in 1959 with the Exotica album reaching #1. He rode the charts of Cashbox and Variety also. Denny had as many as three or four albums on the charts simultaneously during his career. He also had national hits with 'A Taste of Honey,' 'The Enchanted Sea,' and 'Ebb Tide.'
Denny died in Honolulu on March 2, 2005 at age 93.
Denny's Firecracker is well known in Japan as the number which inspired Haruomi Hosono to establish Yellow Magic Orchestra. According to Hosono, one day in 1978, after a recording, he invited Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi to his house and showed a memo which said 'Cover and arrange Martin Denny's Firecracker into a chunky-electric disco, featuring synthesizers, to sell out four million copies around the world'.
In 1988, 808 State,a pioneering Acid House electronic group from Manchester, England cited Denny as an influence on their hit song 'Pacific State'. In November 2008, Graham Massey from 808 State held a tribute night to Martin Denny amongst other acts in London under the banner of 'Manchester Mondo'.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Denny
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La Femme Chinoise is an incredible tune by the Yellow Magic Orchestra in collaboration with the uniquely talented Chris Mosdell!! - Mike
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"Chris Mosdell is an award-winning British lyricist, poet, and author, as well as a composer, vocalist, and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Known for his pioneer lyrical work for a wide gamut of Japanese musicians and artists––he has been referred to as the 'Lafcadio Hearn of Lyrics'––he is especially known for his partnership with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his collaboration with the legendary Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa. As the innovator of VISIC (visual music), a tripartite union of lyrics, visuals and music, his solo album Equasian melded his scientific background into a musical framework, and his Oracles of Distraction, a set of poetic cards set to musical coordinates, further expanded his lyrical idiom. The musician Ryuichi Sakamoto wrote 'When I read his lyrics I see him in a high school chemistry laboratory making Molotov cocktails––his eyes lucid, blue and very clear.' He has written lyrics for Eric Clapton, Sarah Brightman, and Boy George; co-written with Michael Jackson, worked with the West African kora player Toumani Daibate; the avant garde calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa; and penned the verse dance drama Amaterasu, The Resurrection of Radiance, that was performed with the City Ballet of London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (2001). He is the subject of a forthcoming documentary film about his lyrical work and his various collaborators, entitled Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist, slated for screening in Tokyo in June, 2009.
...Takahashi continued to be a prime collaborator for Mosdell, inviting him to participate as the lyricist in his next musical endeavor, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) formed in 1978 along with Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto. His best-known YMO songs include 'Behind the Mask', 'Solid State Survivor', 'Nice Age', 'Insomnia', 'La Femme Chinoise', and 'Citizens of Science', from the albums Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978), Solid State Survivor (1979), and ×∞ Multiplies (1980)––lyrics envisaging a socially inert world, digitized and impersonal, and controlled by a forceful hidden authority within a landscape, essentially Japanese, but tinged with Chinese motifs." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Mosdell
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THE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE GARDEN
IN KASAMA-NICHIDO-MOA
SCULPTURE BY FUNAKOSHI-YASUTAKE
ENTITLE -HARU (SPRING)
In May of 1981, a tract of land behind the Main Building and West Wing of the museum extending part way up the hill that becomes Sashiroyama Park, was opened up to form the Outdoor Sculpture Garden. At present, 19 works of sculpture stand in the garden, all of which are masterworks by representative Japanese sculptors in the figurative genre. Standing in fascinating harmony with the seasonal beauties of the natural surroundings, are a rich array of pieces including Yoshi Kinouchi's Homage to the Aegean Sea, Shin Hongo's Figure of Winter, Takashi Shimizu's Meditation, Yoshitatsu Yanagihara's Milestone-Crow, Yasutake Funakoshi's Harano-jo Castle, Toshio Yodoi's Summer, Driftwood and Woman, Kazuo Kikuchi's Flow, Kai Itoh's Woman in Swimsuit Show, and others. For a change of atmosphere while perusing the museum's galleries, let us suggest that you enjoy a stroll along the gentle slopes of the sculpture garden's paths.
Since its opening in 1972, this museum has focused particularly on the early development of Western style oil painting in Japan from a number, of different perspectives. In this sense, we consider this collection of busts an important part of our holdings and we are gratified to say that it has been appreciated greatly by the museum-going public as well. We hope visitors will enjoy it along with our collection of modern sculpture by European masters.
In addition to the sculptures in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden, the museum has assembled a substantial collection of busts of noted painters. Displayed opposite the main entrance of the West Wing are busts of prominent artists who played important historical roles in the establishment of the school of Western style oil painting in Japan. They include busts of Heizo Kanayama, Hiromitsu Nakazawa, Ken-ichi Nakamura and Hisashi Tsuji by Saburo Yoshida, Ryusei Kishida and Ryuzaburo Umehara by Hiroatsu Takada, Takeji Fujishima by Shin Hongo, Saburo Miyamoto by Churyo Sato, Takeshi Hayashi by Kai Itoh, Saburosuke Okada by Kyukei Yoshida, Seiichi Hara by Tsuneo Nishi, Eisaku Wada by Shigeru Chino and Kinosuke Ebihara by Toshihito Hosono.
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The Kasama Nichido Museum of Art of the Nichido Art Foundation was opened on November 11, 1972. The museum was established by the founder of Galerie Nichido, Jin Hasegawa and his wife Rinko. The land on which the museum stands is the site where the Hasegawa Family estate has stood for generations, located roughly in the center of Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and occupying the western edge of the Sashiroyama Castle Remains Park.
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舟越 保武を入り口に置いておくというそのセンスが実にいい。
笠間日動美術館