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I must have listened to this piece like 2000 times
I had a tape of it when I was a lot younger and on the reverse was Japan, Oil on canvas. I ended up wearing it out.
My favorite Sakamoto piece is Bolerish, and obvious homage to Ravel's Bolero; from the soundtrack of the little-known film "Femme Fatale"
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I had a tape of it when I was a lot younger and on the reverse was Japan, Oil on canvas. I ended up wearing it out.
Oil on Canvas, gosh. Their final masterpiece before David Sylvian would go on to make those incredible solo records.
A fly on the wall video of the 1st album [1] recording sessions was posted couple of years ago [2] which includes bits where you can see Sylvian/Sakamoto working together.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Trees
2: The Berlin Sessions - https://youtu.be/v-X36Xi8i58
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Though we ourselves are by definition part of the universe and thus nature.
The whole nature vs civilization narrative, is a story told by happy regressors, who want to return to a ilusionary before time, were all things were harmony and civilization was not. It is of course, a call for mass murder on billions of humans with the rumbling instincts from the brain stem and guts as justification. Were it justified with any other argument, civilized society would tear them to shreds, but in the…
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And that normative sense succeeds in separating humanity from nature, creating an "Us vs It" narrative that makes pollution easier to ignore. After all, if everything humanity does is pollution, why single any specific acts out?
Pollution goes on because it's the convenient path of least resistance, has short term benefits (e.g. we keep indulging in consumptiona as usual) and there are huge profit interests. That simple. How we see nature plays little role, in after-the-fact justifications or condemnations. In fact pollution could be justified under either view: Humanity is different than nature: all we do is pollution, in the sense that is…
This is a dogmatic statement influenced by religions that put humanity as a separate creation.
Humanity is part of nature. Fixing the world requires accepting that.
"The industrial revolution made the production of an instrument like [the piano] possible. Several planks of wood - six I think in this case - are overlaid and pressed into shape by tremendous force for six months. Nature is molded into shape. Many tons of force and pressure are applied, making the strings what they are. Matter taken from nature is molded by human industry, by the sum strength of civilization. Nature…
Humanity is nature and natural, everything we produce and do is literally just a transformation of something that already exists. What's the difference between the honey created by bees and the nuclear waste of a nuclear reactor? If you get rid of the pro-not-human narrative there is none.
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A number of prolific Japanese Jazz keyboardists/pianists have died relatively young. Hirotaka Izumi, who played keyboards for T-Square and Pyramid, died from acute heart failure at 62. The Japanese Jazz composer and pianist Jun Fukamachi, who released an average of over one album per year in his 39 years as a band leader, died from an aortic dissection at 64. Japanese jazz pianist and composer Hiromasa Suzuki, who ha…
Do I spy a fellow T-Square fan? You have any other recommendations? I've found a few related bands in the Casiopea/T-Square family but I have a feeling there's a whole iceberg left to delve into if I can find it.
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Oil on Canvas, gosh. Their final masterpiece before David Sylvian would go on to make those incredible solo records.
And Sakamoto would end up being involved in some of those Sylvian solo records. A fly on the wall video of the 1st album [1] recording sessions was posted couple of years ago [2] which includes bits where you can see Sylvian/Sakamoto working together. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Trees 2: The Berlin Sessions - https://youtu.be/v-X36Xi8i58
I love watching young Ryuichi Sakamoto in this film clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvFIJpZmZA tidbit: he had rather large hand with long fingers for someone who is 171cm. I went a museum that had a cast of his hands and I was surprised at how large they were.
I bought the scores for Bibou No Aozora and a couple other pieces from his site for my wife to play and she commented that he must have big hands