Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一) – BTTB (Back To The Basics) (1998/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:08 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Milan Records
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.”
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“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.
Best known for his work as a soundtrack composer (The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence) and a founding member of avant-rockers Yellow Magic Orchestra, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto gets “back to the basics” with this album. Of course, “the basics” here involve simple impressionist-inspired piano ditties that often sound more like diluted Vangelis than compositions from the cutting edge. But that’s OK, as long as you consider this as relaxing background music and not the shape of classical music’s future. BTTB was a hit in Japan in 1999, especially because of the single “Energy Flow” (a piece that Sakamoto admits was originally written as a commercial jingle). This release features one new track (“Reversing”) and plenty of other soothing, melodic works. (Jason Verlinde)
Tracklist:
1. Opus 4:26
2. Sonatine 3:38
3. Intermezzo 3:45
4. Lorenz And Watson 3:56
5. Choral No. 1 2:27
6. Choral No. 2 2:05
7. Do Bacteria Sleep? 4:17
8. Bachata 8:14
9. Chanson 2:23
10. Distant Echo 5:53
11. Prelude 4:09
12. Sonata 3:31
13. Uetax 1:21
14. Aqua 4:30
15. Energy Flow 4:33
16. Snake Eyes 6:08
17. Tong Poo 5:03
18. Reversing 3:57
1. Opus 4:26
2. Sonatine 3:38
3. Intermezzo 3:45
4. Lorenz And Watson 3:56
5. Choral No. 1 2:27
6. Choral No. 2 2:05
7. Do Bacteria Sleep? 4:17
8. Bachata 8:14
9. Chanson 2:23
10. Distant Echo 5:53
11. Prelude 4:09
12. Sonata 3:31
13. Uetax 1:21
14. Aqua 4:30
15. Energy Flow 4:33
16. Snake Eyes 6:08
17. Tong Poo 5:03
18. Reversing 3:57
Personnel:
Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano
Digitally remastered
Ryuichi Sakamoto, piano
Digitally remastered
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1996 | ||||
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Released | June 4, 1996 | |||
Studio | Right Track Studios, New York | |||
Genre | Chamber music | |||
Length | 52:19 | |||
Label | Güt, For Life Milan | |||
Producer | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |||
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology | ||||
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1996 is a 1996 album by Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. It contains a selection of Sakamoto's most popular compositions plus two new compositions, all arranged for a standard piano trio. The arrangement of 'Bibo no Aozora' that appears on this album has appeared in several film and television projects; one notable example is the film Babel, whose soundtrack features both the 1996 version and the /04 version of the song.
Track listing[edit]
No. | Title | Originally from | Length |
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1. | 'A Day a Gorilla Gives a Banana' (ゴリラがバナナをくれる日Gorira ga Banana wo Kureru Hi) | Previously unreleased | 1:40 |
2. | 'Rain' | The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987 | 3:38 |
3. | 'Bibo no Aozora' (美貌の青空, Beauty of a Blue Sky) | Smoochy, 1995 | 6:36 |
4. | 'The Last Emperor' | The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987 | 5:53 |
5. | '1919' | Previously unreleased | 6:22 |
6. | 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (soundtrack), 1983 | 4:46 |
7. | 'M.A.Y. in The Backyard' | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984 | 3:29 |
8. | 'The Sheltering Sky' | The Sheltering Sky (soundtrack), 1990 | 4:33 |
9. | 'A Tribute to N.J.P.' | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984 | 3:17 |
10. | 'High Heels (Main Theme)' | High Heels (soundtrack), 1991 | 3:18 |
11. | 'Aoneko no Torso' (青猫のトルソ, Torso of a Blue Cat) | Smoochy, 1995 | 2:32 |
12. | 'The Wuthering Heights' | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (soundtrack), 1992 | 5:20 |
13. | 'Parolibre' | Futurista, 1986 | 3:22 |
14. | 'Acceptance (End Credit) -Little Buddha-' | Little Buddha (soundtrack), 1994 | 7:30 |
15. | 'Before Long' | Neo Geo, 1991 | 3:02 |
16. | 'Bring them home' | Smoochy, 1995 | 3:24 |
Personnel[edit]
Performers
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano
- Jaques Morelenbaum – cello
- Everton Nelson – violin (tracks 1, 3 – 7, 9 – 12 & 14)
- David Nadien – violin (tracks 2 & 8)
- Barry Finclair – violin (tracks 13 & 15)
Technical
- Fernando Aponte – engineer, mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Joe Lizzi & Jason Goldstein – assistant engineers
- Hideki Nakajima – art direction, design
- Yoshinori Ochiai – design
- Kazunari Tajima – photography
- Clare de Graw & David Rubinson – production managers[1]
References[edit]
- ^'Ryuichi Sakamoto discografia'. TokyoNoise.Net. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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