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This is the second in the "Year Book" series of three CDs released in 2015.The series once again summarizes the first 10 years of Ryuichi Sakamoto's musical career.
It begins with a violin sonata from his days at Tokyo University of the Arts and ends with a previously unreleased live track of YMO's "The End of Asia" in London in 1979.
From the first half, which is mainly classical and contemporary music, to the middle half, which is a compilation of masterpieces from his time as an arranger, and the second half, which is experimental music and techno-pop, this yearbook traces the turbulent 1970s of Ryuichi Sakamoto in sound.
Many of his works have been released on CD or commercially for the first time, but the highlight of the book is the complete performance of "Memories of Nazca (Music as a Non-Dream Device or Anti-Community Function)" at his solo exhibition in 1978.
In addition to Ryuichi Sakamoto's commentary on the work, a booklet featuring an interview with Haruomi Hosono, who discusses Ryuichi Sakamoto's work from this period, is also included.
Year Book 1971-1979
In the 1970s, there was a man called Abu.
------ Ryuichi Sakamoto, before he was a "professor.
The 1970s, Sakamoto Ryuichi's period of obscurity.
A young contemporary music composer belonging to the composition department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Underground folk performer. A standard-bearer of improvised music. An up-and-coming arranger who freely makes rock, soul, and reggae music his own. A creator of avant-garde electronic music, armed with an arp odyssey. A keyboardist who supports the fusion scene. Actor and seated musician for small theaters. Occasional classical pianist.
A man called Abu, a mysterious musician who used his anonymity and anonymity as a weapon, flying through the Japanese music scene in the 1970s with no regard for genre. This is a compilation of the adventures of the young Ryuichi Sakamoto, before he was given the nickname "professor.
The sequel to "Year Book 2005-2014," a yearbook-style compilation CD of mainly unreleased songs released on his birthday in 2015, is "Year Book 1971-1979," a compilation of Ryuichi Sakamoto's activities in the 1970s, from his amateur to professional debut years. The three-CD set is even larger than the previous one, and is packed with previously unreleased and unreleased songs by Ryuichi Sakamoto from the 1970s.
In addition to contemporary and classical works such as "Piano Sonata" (1971), a composition from his Geidai period, and the legendary piano piece "Dispersion, Boundary, Sand" (1976), premiered by Aki Takahashi, the album also includes his first recordings in the fields of folk, pop and rock music, his first arrangements and first overseas recordings. The album includes memorable pieces from both the Japanese pop scene and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The album also includes a collection of works created, performed, and arranged by Sakamoto Ryuichi in an almost anonymous capacity at the time. Each of these songs, in a variety of genres from soul and reggae to avant-garde songs and fusion, caused a stir in the Japanese music scene at that time.
Furthermore, the biggest highlight of "Year book 1970-1979" would be the inclusion of "Memory of Nazca (Non-dream device: Music as anti-community function)," a blockbuster electronic music piece performed in a solo concert at a contemporary music event "Solo Exhibition" in 1978. This masterpiece of radical and radical electronic music, a major foreshadowing and prelude to his solo debut "A Thousand Knives" and participation in the Yellow Magic Orchestra that same year, is finally being released to the public after a lapse of nearly 40 years.
Containing many previously unreleased, unreleased, or rare sound sources, "Year Book 1971-1979" concentrates the adventurous period of the young Ryuichi Sakamoto and is a first-class document in the history of Ryuichi Sakamoto and in the history of various genres of Japanese music in the 1970s, and at the same time, it is a masterpiece of avant-garde to ultra From avant-garde to ultra-pop, it is also a work of first-rate entertainment that will keep you entertained.
The accompanying booklet includes a commentary by Ryuichi Sakamoto himself, detailed data, and a wealth of visual materials, including rare photos and documents from the period! (Art direction by Shiro Takatani)
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