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29 March 2023

RIP Sakamoto Ryuichi 坂本龍一 (17.1.1952-28.3.2023), a pioneer of modern J-pop.

His band Yellow Music Orchestra (YMO) revolutionalized the global electronic music scene and directly influenced the musicians of the Shibuya-kei (渋谷系) [Musicians/Remixers of Shibuya-kei includes Fantastic Plastic Machine, Nakata Yasutaka, Buffalo Daughter, etc.] His bandmate Takahashi Yukihiro 高橋幸宏 (6.6.1952 - 11.1.2023) just passed away on 11 January 2023 due to complications from brain tumour. As such, Hosono Haruomi 細野晴臣 is the only surviving member of YMO.

Sakamoto Ryuichi is known internationally as a film soundtrack composer, notably for "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence", "The Last Emperor" & "The Little Buddha".

Sakamoto Ryuichi is also an actor, model (quite handsome in his younger days) and environmental activist. He has been incorporating sound recordings of nature and the environment into his compositions to raise environmental awareness. He also believes that anything can make music (e.g. installing microphones everywhere in his house & transform his house into an instrument), which is the concept of his 2017 album "async".




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