ryuichi sakamoto playing the orchestra 2014 lossless

The remainder of the album mostly floats on waves of gentle and often gorgeous liquid ambience. Its also all-rhythm on an album that seems to repel or discourage said element in the rest of its numbers. The notes ping pong between the left and right speakers and in aggressive movement with practically no low-end variation. On the opposite end of the album is Composition 0919, a piece of Reichian simplicity also confined to the piano that, by contrast, locks both playing hands together in staccato spurts. The songs space becomes hard to track as Sakamoto continues to fill them unexpectedly. The result is familiar sound made unfamiliar by it reconnections and collisions with other familiar sound. Instead the theme begins looping in odd spots and the tempos of each hand at the keyboard begin to slip away from each other. The album is unexpectedly bookended by what are Out of Noises most seemingly extrinsic pieces.Ĭommencement piece Hibari is 9 minutes of a single theme on a piano.Ī world apart from minimalism though, the work transposes from a tempered slipknot to an elegant fumble that threatens to, though never succeeds in tripping itself up. Unlike many aging musicians who grow out of touch and out of focus with modern music, Sakamotos latest is vibrantly in touch with the sounds of now, particularly the interstition between 20th or 21st century classical and the various post-Eno explorations of non-beat oriented atmospherics. The only exception to this rule is the blissful droning of the wall-of-sound Firewater, which show Sakamoto learning a few tricks from his recent Austrian laptop composer partner Fennesz. Its technology is obscured by the subtlety of its implementation amidst traditional instrumentation and field recordings. The title is a mystery as the album seems neither carved out of noise nor does it seem to be devoid of it. The album that the tour is in support of, Out of Noise, Sakamotos first full-length solo work in 5 years, is aptly diverse and prescient, yet austere and sullen.

Ryuichi sakamoto playing the orchestra 2014 lossless