How to even describe the late Ryuichi Sakamoto to someone who might not have heard of him? Just imagining the scope of his music strains the limits of thought, like pondering the size of the universe.

Composer and Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away in March 2023 at the age of 71. Before he died, he worked with filmmaker Neo Sora on Opus, a solo piano performance film ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Recorded and filmed as he was dying of cancer, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus” — the Japanese film composer's posthumous album and documentary of the same name — is clearly meant to be his ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced his new solo album 12. It’s due out January 17 via Milan Records. 12 is the first non-soundtrack solo studio album from the Japanese composer since 2017’s Async.

2 Madonna's CONFESSIONS II Pop-up Coming to Los Angeles On Sunday, June 30 at 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET, the Criterion Channel will host the online premiere of RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (2023), Neo Sora's ...

The estate of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer and Yellow Magic Orchestra member who died in 2023, has announced the posthumous album Opus, a document of Sakamoto’s final ...

A new posthumous album has been announced from the late Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album is called "Opus". A few months before his death, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto ...

Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a hugely influential career. The former member of Yellow Magic Orchestra has written music for everything from the Olympics and video games, to film scores ...

The group’s second album, Solid State Survivor, had a richer sound, more influenced by disco and Afropop, and featured Sakamoto singing through a vocoder on the track “Behind the Mask,” one of the ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced new album, titled 12, that will be out January 20 via Milan Records. The album, his first since 2017, was recorded over the last two-and-a-half years while battling ...

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