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Alexei & the Spring premieres in Japan & at Berlin Film Festival Derrida Premieres @ Sundance |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto and the members of Sustainability for Peace publish "No War" Composes and performs scores for Derrida & Alexei and the Spring Composes score for Brian DePalma's Femme Fatale Performs live in Central Park with Cyndi Lauper for: "Come Together A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music" Gathers Debis of Prayer (www.sitesakamoto.com/WTC911/debrisofprayer) after 9/11 Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto Japan Tour Casa released in Japan Narrates Space Show: Passport to the Universe Performances with Gilberto Gil & Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum in Sao Paulo, Brazil Zero Landmine #1 Single in Japan "Aiming for Zero Landmines The First Prayer of the 21st Century" airs on TBS in Japan David Sylvian's "Everything & Nothing" Released "Africa Note" released by Code Gohatto soundtrack released outside of Japan Casa recording sessions in Rio |
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"Jyonetsu Tairiku" airs on Christmas Eve Sakamoto display appears in Barneys for the holidays Gohatto Soundtrack released outside of Japan L.O.L./Lack of Love released in Japan Secret Performance announced in the lobby of the Great Easter Hotel in London Receives an "official" Sicilian chapeau from the Mayor of Sicily BTTB Tour Part II in Europe Live Webcast from Montreux Honored with Key to the City of Montreux at Montreux Jazz Fest Gohatto shown at Cannes Sakamoto joins the efforts of Jubilee 2000 Philadelphia performance at TLA webcast live Sakamoto experiences the spirits of the Fillmore US Tour Kicks Off in LA First Ever performance in Korea at Seoul Art Center Lost Child and Kowareta Kokoro released in Japan Live Radio Performances include a stop at Morning Becomes Eclectic BTTB US Tour Launches BTTB European Tour Sells Out BTTB & Cinemage Released outside of Japan BTTB Previewed with a performance at Joe's Pub in NYC |
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Soundtrack for Nagisa Oshima's Gohatto released in Japan YMO Remixes Vol. 1 remixed by malawi rocks/yasuharu konishi released in Japan YMO Remixes Vol. 2 remixed by dj hasebe/fantastic plastic machine released in Japan Sampled Life + Raw Life released in Japan Raw Life Osaka and Raw Life Japan released in Japan Sampled Life released in Japan Sakamoto's first opera, Life, opens in Japan with six sold-out performances in Osaka and Tokyo. Death, Destruction and Detroit III opens at the Lincoln Center Festival, marking the first collaboration between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Robert Wilson. "Love Is The Devil" released in Japan gutninja remixes released in Japan, featuring remixes of "Grief", "Anger", "Prayer", and "Salvation". and an unreleased remix of "Grief" by Coldcut. Sakamoto joins other prominent artists in forming the Media Artists Association, which acts on behalf of artists as an exploratory and advisory body for standards for online media distribution |
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"Anger-Grief" remixes released on Ninjatune, featuring Amon Tobin, Talvin Singh, Rare Force and Chocolate Weasel "Discord" released worldwide outside Japan, on Sony Classical, on February 10. "Discord Live" at World Financial Center Winter Garden, NYC and via interactive webcast. Fans from 80 countries around the world applaud and play Sakamoto's piano via the Internet in real-time. "The Greatest", collection of Sakamoto hits, released in Japan. "Very Best of the gut Years" released in Japan 1994-1997. "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Conversazioni" released; book of interviews by Massimo Milano. Worldwide release of the score for Brian DePalma's "Snake Eyes" Prayer/Salvation Remixes Released on Ninja Tune with remixes by Ashley Beedle, J Swinscoe, The Fink, Pan Sonic, Andrea Parker, and Oval, and edit sof both movements by Fernando Aponte. Sakamoto makes first solo piano concert appearance outside Japan at the Knitting Factory's DIVX Film Music Festival Giant Step show at Roxy, with ColdCut, DJ Krush, Talvin Singh, DJ Spooky, Mix Master Mike and others Worldwide release of the score to John Maybury's "Love Is The Devil" Limited edition package of "BTTB" released in Japan, featuring sheet music, MIDI files of music from the CD Ryuichi Sakamoto Live "SKMTPBTTBMPD98": Performs BTTB, Tokyo |
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Ryuichi Sakamoto Playing the Orchestra 1997 "f" Japan tour -- 7 major cities throughout Japan. The Yokohama Arena show was broadcast live on the Internet on January 23rd. Produced 7 tracks of Taeko Onuki's album, "Lucy". Released a new cd-e "DISCORD" in Japan : featuring the most recent composition,"Untitled 01" -- conducted by Yutaka Sado, performed by "The Orchestra" led by Fuminori Shinozaki, David Torn, DJ Spooky and Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano. Awarded the International Jury with the Golden NICA for Interactive Art in this years Prix Ars Electronica competition of computer arts with Toshio Iwai for "Music Plays Images X Images Play Music" Performed at RESCUE with Laurie Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Yungchen Lhamo, Lou Reed, Robert Wilson, Hector Zazou, Salman Rushdie and The Electra String Quartet at the Royal Festival Hall, London. RESCUE was curated by Laurie Anderson and was a Gala Performance in aid of the Warchild Organization, |
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TRIO album 1996 released from Milan records world-wide (except Japan - Japan distribution from For Life/gut records). TRIO album 1996 world tour -- Europe, Asia, Australia, Japan and US. The Trio shows at Knitting Factory in New York, at Royal Festival Hall in London and Orchard Hall in Tokyo were broadcast through the Internet (the show at Orchard Hall in Tokyo was also broadcast through M-bone). Performed at Summerstage 96 in Central Park, New York City with Caetano Veloso, Jaques Morelenbaum, Arto Lindsay,Vinicius Cantuaria, Marcelo Costa and Everton Nelson. Produced a track featuring Caetano Veloso and Cesaria Evora for the Red Hot Orgnization`s Aids benefit album , Red Hot & Rio(Antilles/Verve,Polygram distribution worldwide) Launched gut-bounce records in Japan: a new indies label created by the joint effort of gut/For Life records and Tower Records Japan`s bounce label. Held a concert entitled "Music Plays Images X Images Play Music" with Japanese visual artist, Toshio Iwai at Art Tower Mito in Ibaragai, Japan. The performance of piano and computers was broadcast live on the internet with the support of the Internet World Expo '96. There was also an Internet broadcast of the MIDI transmission of Sakamoto's piano on the remote end, and a remote control of a MIDI piano in Art Tower Mito by users on the Internet. |
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Nominated for a Grammy for the film score of Bernardo Bertolucci's film Little Buddha Concert in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo) with Caetano Velosso and Jaques Morelenbaum. Released new solo album Smoochy in Japan -- D&L Japan Tour. D&L Budokan show was multi-casted through M-bone and the Internet. |
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Released Sweet Revenge -- world tour. | |
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Released the re-united Yellow Magic Orchestra's album Technodon - concert at Tokyo Dome. Featured in Madonna's Rain video. Composed the music for Bernardo Bertolucci's film Little Buddha. Performed Playing the Piano with Jacques Morelenbaum, Everton Nelson and L. Subramaniam. |
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Heartbeat tour. Composed the music for Pedro Almodovar's film High Heels. Performed at the 1992 World Expo in Seville, Spain. Composed and conducted El Mar Mediterano for the Opening Ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Composed for and performed in the Opening Ceremony of the 1992 Paralympics. Composed the music for Peter Kosminsky's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Composed the music for Oliver Stone's ABC TV series Wild Palms. Perfomed Playing the Piano at NHK Hall in Tokyo with Jacques Morelenbaum and Everton Nelson. |
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Awarded Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for the best original music score for The Sheltering Sky. Released Heartbeat. Composed music for the opening ceremony of The World Athletic Championships in Tokyo. Performed at WOMAD 1991 Festival in Yokohama, produced in part by Peter Gabriel. Produced Aztec Camera's Dreamland. |
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Released Beauty -- world tour. Composed the music for Volker Schlondorff's film The Handmaid's Tale. Composed the music for Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Sheltering Sky. Performed Playing the Piano with Arto Lindsay for Asahi Broadcasting Company at the Apollo Theater in N.Y. |
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Awarded Grammy Award for the best original score for The Last Emperor. Released Gruppo Musicale. Performed Playing the Piano with Yosuke Yamashita and Jiang Jiang Hua. |
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Awarded Academy, Golden Globe, Los Angeles, New York Film Critics Association and British Academy Award for best original score for The Last Emperor. Neo Geo tour in the U.S.. Released Playing The Orchestra. Performed Playing the Piano, a piano concert at Terada Warehouse T- 33 in Tokyo. |
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Composed the soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor with David Byrne and Cong Su. Performed in The Last Emperor with John Lone and Peter O' Toole. Released Neo Geo, co-produced by Bill Laswell, with vocals by Igg y Pop in the song Risky. Neo Geo Japan tour. |
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Released Future Boy. Launched Media Bahn, a concert tour for the album -- released Media Bahn Live . Composed the soundtrack for the film Kitten Story. Produced Virginia Astley's album Hope In a Darkened Heart. Produced the soundtrack for the animated film Aile de Honneamise. |
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Released Esperanto. The subject of the documentary Tokyo Melody, created by the French National TV for the First Tokyo International Film Festival. Performed for the multi media event TV WAR at Tsukuba Science Expo with Radical TV and Akira Asada. |
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Released Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia. Formed his own publishing company Hon Hon Doh. Published Long Calls; a dialogue with Yuji Takahashi. |
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Released Coda.
Composed the soundtrack for the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima. Performed in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence along with David Bowie and Beat Takeshi. Disbanded Yellow Magic Orchestra. |
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Released Ikenai Rouge Magic with Kiyoshiro Imawano. Published Watching Sounds, Listening to Times with philosopher Shozo Ohmori from Asahi Publications. |
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Released Left Handed Dream. Co-produced Akiko Yano's album. |
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Yellow Magic Orchestra's Technopolis 2000-20 Japan tour. Released B-2 Unit. |
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Yellow Magic Orchestra world tour. | |
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Released his first solo album Thousand Knives. Formed Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) with Haruomi Hososno and Yukihiro Takahashi. |
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Received MFA with a concentration in electronic and ethnic music from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Worked as a studio musician, arranger and producer. |
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Received B.A. with a major in music composition from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music . | |
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Born January 17 in Nakano, Japan. | |
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