Meanwhile they met for live shows, or communicated via digital means to compare notes, swop ideas and develop themes… And the cyclical process continued right up until the final mix. This process was also reversed - Sakamoto initiating the track with a piano composition and Fennesz responding. Fennesz would send Sakamoto a guitar or electronic track and Sakamoto would compose his piano piece. They came together for the mix in New York City in February of that year. So now we have “Cendre”… Cendre was recorded between 20 in New York City by Ryuichi Sakamoto and in Vienna by Christian Fennesz. Bill Meyer in Magnet (US) wrote: “Cross-generational encounters are never a sure thing, but this one strikes sparks” and Max Scaefer in Cyclic Defrost (USA): “a moment of much beauty, not to mention anticipation for the promised full-length effort to come.” Tom Sekowski adds in Gaz-eta (USA): “We can only hope this astonishing collaboration will turn into something more tangible, more permanent.” Their first, “Sala Santa Cecilia”, was a 19 minute overture from their live performance in Rome in November 2004. This release features a duet between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto – a continuing collaboration between two highly regarded composers. Exposed to everyone from the Beatles to Beethoven and John Cage, he.
His discography is immense and varied, including solo piano works, proto-techno, experimental ambient, and glitch.īorn January 17, 1952, in Tokyo, Sakamoto took up piano at the age of three, and regularly performed in jazz bands while in high school. The driving force behind "Neo Geo," a cutting-edge fusion of Asian and Western classical music with other global textures and rhythms, he has been equally adept in electronic and acoustic settings, whether recording in solitude or in tandem, with decades of steady activity. As one-third of Yellow Magic Orchestra and an Academy Award-winning composer for his work on the soundtrack for 1987's The Last Emperor, synth pop innovator Ryuichi Sakamoto is among the most groundbreaking artists to have emerged since the late '70s.
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