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"2099" is a digitized take on free jazz textures, while a 2011 remix of Meredith Monk’s "Astronaut Anthem" repurposes the original’s tension to create a drowsy sense of bliss. These works demonstrate an intuitive grasp of the sounds Sakamoto has continued exploring with his Western collaborators of late, while the fragmentary "Visionaire" reminds that these are gestures he discovered for himself on 2002’s spectral Derrida soundtrack.īreaking from its predecessor’s sustained tone, the second disc bounds in all directions. The brief piece sets the tone for the first disc’s bleak minimalism, where fragments of Debussy keys shimmer gently along a barren digital landscape between pockets of warmth and harmony. The opening invocation, "Cantus Omnibus Unus", is a severe Gregorian chant that stakes out new territory for the composer. Thanks to the wide variety of contexts its 30 pieces were written to serve, Year Book winds up being the most representative-and rewarding-Sakamoto album of its titular period.
The past decade has seen Sakamoto’s once panoramic focus narrow to the minute particulars of just a few genres: His collaborative albums with the likes of Noto, Deupree, Fennesz, and Christopher Willits each have their idiosyncrasies, but all deal mostly in cold drones and ambience, while his solo efforts have been mostly focused on piano. The 63-year-old musician’s output has since consisted of just one album, a live collaboration with Illuha and Taylor Deupree, recorded the year before his hiatus.
Last summer, Sakamoto announced that he’d been diagnosed with throat cancer, and would be taking some time away to prioritize treatment. The Japan-only compilation Year Book 2005–2014, collecting rare and unreleased commissioned work, comes at a difficult time for its maker. Sakamoto’s great strength throughout his massive oeuvre is his search for new vantage points. And 2002’s Century of Reform is itself a set of hypotheses testing the versatility of a single theme. Lawrence", the iconic centerpiece of his soundtrack for the David Bowie vehicle of the same name, has been re-worked repeatedly, including a bit-crushed reduction during recent live performances with German sound sculptor Alva Noto. A song like "Energy Flow" might find its first spark of life as a brief commercial jingle, then expand into Japan’s first-ever instrumental chart-topper, then find its way into a modern classical form. Sakamoto has released more than a half-dozen studio albums of reconfigured material, making his discography less a straight line than a phylogenetic tree. Though it’s been decades since the trailblazing techno-pop of solo albums like Thousand Knives and B–2 Unit, he’s continually revisited pieces from throughout his career, including his time in the seminal electronic trio Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Ryuichi Sakamoto isn’t afraid to look back.
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