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  • Thousand Knives Of
  • Tokyo Joe
  • B-2 Unit
  • Left Handed Dream
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence [Original Soundtrack]
  • Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia
  • Esperanto
  • Media Bahn Live
  • Ballet Mécanique
  • The Last Emperor [Original Soundtrack]
  • Neo Geo
  • The End of Asia
  • Behind the Mask
  • Aile de Honnêamise [Original Soundtrack]
  • Plays Sakamoto
  • The Handmaid's Tale [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Sheltering Sky [Original Soundtrack]
  • Beauty
  • Heartbeat
  • High Heels [Original Soundtrack]
  • Little Buddha [Original Soundtrack]
  • Sweet Revenge
  • 1996
  • Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995
  • Smoochy
  • Snake Eyes [Music from the Motion Picture]
  • Love Is the Devil [Original Soundtrack]
  • BTTB
  • Pre Life in Progress
  • Sampled Life
  • Gohatto [Original Soundtrack]
  • Raw Life: Live in Tokyo
  • Raw Life: Live in Osaka
  • Intimate
  • Audio Life
  • Discord [Remixes]
  • Music Encyclopedia
  • Taboo [Original Soundtrack]
  • L.O.L.: Lack of Love [Original Soundtrack]
  • In the Lobby: At G.E.H. in London
  • Morelenbaum 2/Sakamoto: Casa
  • Comica
  • Henkaku No Seiki: Century of Reform
  • Elephantism
  • Femme Fatale [Original Soundtrack]
  • Vrioon
  • Love
  • Derrida [Original Soundtrack]
  • Alexei and the Spring [Original Soundtrack]
  • Summer Nerves
  • Chasm
  • Shining Boy and Little Randy
  • /05
  • Insen
  • /04
  • Cendre
  • Silk [Original Soundtrack]
  • Ocean Fire
  • Playing the Piano
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano
  • Flumina
  • Summvs
  • Ancient Future
  • Three
  • Disappearance
  • Perpetual
  • Live
  • The Revenant [Original Soundtrack]
  • Nagasaki: Memories of My Son [Original Soundtrack]
  • Plankton: Music for an Intallation By Christian Sardet and Shiro Takatani
  • Ikari (Rage) [Original Soundtrack]
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Music for Film
  • async
  • Glass
  • Black Mirror: Smithereens [Original Series Soundtrack]

Release Date

1990

Duration

55:28

Genre

Styles

Recording Location

  • Bear Tracks
  • Bear Tracks, New York, NY
  • Complex, Los Angeles, CA
  • New York, NY
  • Onkio Haus Studio, Tokyo, Japan
  • Platinum Island Re
  • Power Station, New York, NY
  • Right Tracks Studio, New York, NY
  • Sound Inn Studio, Tokyo, Japan
  • Take One Studio, Tokyo, Japan
  • The Power Station, New York, NY
  • Zero Studio, Tokyo, Japan
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Ryuichi Sakamoto

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A world-music tapestry featuring a mixture of Eastern, Western, and African elements, it includes such musicians as Robbie Robertson, Sly Dunbar, and even Brian Wilson.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time
1
Jeffrey Cohen / Kirk Crumpler / Yoriko Ganeko / Misako Koja / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Kazumi Tamaki / Larry White
Ryuichi Sakamoto
05:05
2
Arto Lindsay / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Roger Trilling
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:26
3
Arto Lindsay / Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
05:11
4
Katsu Hoshi
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:35
5
Arto Lindsay / Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:08
6
Arto Lindsay / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Roger Trilling
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:54
7
Mick Jagger / Keith Richards
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:46
8
Youssou N'Dour / Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
04:13
9
Arto Lindsay / Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
05:34
10
Stephen Foster / Yoriko Ganeko / Misako Koja / Kazumi Tamaki
Ryuichi Sakamoto
05:32
11
Traditional
Ryuichi Sakamoto
07:27
12
Ryuichi Sakamoto
03:59
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