The veteran Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is a universally respected figure whose music has gone through all sorts of different styles and modes over the decades. Sakamoto has made synth-bleep post-disco classics with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and he’s won an Oscar for scoring The Last Emperor. Sakamoto’s music has left is aesthetic stamp on everything from new age to rap. Earlier this year, Sakamoto announced that he’s battling stage 4 cancer. Right now, many of Sakamoto’s admirers a...
The veteran Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is a universally respected figure whose music has gone through all sorts of different styles and modes over the decades. Sakamoto has made synth-bleep post-disco classics with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and he’s won an Oscar for scoring The Last Emperor. Sakamoto’s music has left is aesthetic stamp on everything from new age to rap. Earlier this year, Sakamoto announced that he’s battling stage 4 cancer. Right now, many of Sakamoto’s admirers a...
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