
Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Ryuichi Sakamoto is most famous for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his film scores for the films Merry Christmas, Mr. Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Ryuichi Sakamoto is the 270th most popular composer (up from 355th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Japan (up from 324th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Composer. Krish: For our first story, Simon Frank considers the strange, intense fandom in China around Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.Known globally as a pioneer of electronic pop music (he was one of the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra) and his stirring soundtrack work (notably the 2015 film The Revenant), Sakamoto is an unusual object of pop-idol-esque obsession. In Fennesz he found a kindred spirit in exploring noise and sound- terms that in Japanese are not differentiated by the word Oto, which is the title track. Furthering some of the ambient inroads made with Alva Noto, Sakamoto’s collaborations with laptop-guitar maestro Christian Fennesz forms another key part of his back-catalogue.

His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ryuichi Sakamoto + Fennesz Cendre (Touch, 2007) Listen / Buy. Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryuichi Sakamoto has received more than 1,839,271 page views. Ryuichi Sakamotos async is a gorgeous album of harmony and dissonance, becoming a modern classic and one of Sakamotos deepest listening experiences. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives Of - LP Deluxe Edition with 4p insert, OBI strip from WEWANTSOUNDS, 20.00 USD. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger.

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
