There's plenty of invention here and there but alas, also some laborious counter-point and the album lacks overall coherence, in contrast to most Sakamoto projects to come. Kylyn was another band to receive some of his attention around this period, and a few of its members like Kazumi Watanabe participate here.Īlthough it gets better after repeated listening, it is clearly a starter's album by someone learning his craft, especially production, which tends to sound a bit flat. It was released one month prior to the first YMO album, YMO being the band to which he would devote most of his time for the next 5 or 6 years. Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volksliedġ000 Knives is the first Ryuichi Sakamoto album to appear under his own name.If you like RS's synth work, you'd want to get this one and then skip to B2 Unit A little primative but still quite interesting. Clearly influenced by German synth music of the past decade. Takahashi plays drums and Hosono cameos, Matsutake sequences. Sakamoto's first solo (aside from a rare jazz release).
These versions and the differences are noted in the notes. While sometimes this entails songs sung in English, unfortunately they usually have fewer tracks all together. Sakamoto often creates versions of his albums for Japan and "International" versions. While his music still uses many synthesizers, today, his style certainly can't be classified as just Japanese synth-pop. Since doing synth music in Japan was where he originally made his mark he certainly deserves a major place on these pages. > to Sakamoto Albums since 1994 to the page on Sakamoto Live Albums to the page on Sakamoto Collaborations and "Best Of" albums.įor some time Ryuichi Sakamoto has been a true international recording artist. (*) means I don't own this means I've listened to this album but don't own oneĪ couple odds and ends by Derek Higgins marked by "DH:"Īnd some clarification by Jonas Wårstad who has his own discography Ryuichi Sakamoto - pre1984 studio albums Ryuichi Sakamoto solo before 1984:
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