(2023) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Travesía    


Review:
Travesía, an album of music by the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto curated by award-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Featuring selections from Sakamoto’s prolific catalogue handpicked by Iñárritu, who famously collaborated with the composer on his Oscar-winning film The Revenant. Originally conceived as a surprise project celebrating Sakamoto’s 70th birthday, the album is the result of nearly two years of planning and six months of meticulous curation by Iñárritu. Now arriving in the wake of the iconic musician’s passing, Travesía, meaning “journey” in Spanish, takes listeners on a one-of-a-kind trip through the last four decades of Sakamoto’s musicmaking career, showcasing his immeasurable influence and lasting legacy. Given full access to Sakamoto’s extensive catalogue of solo releases, collaborations, scores and live performances, Iñárritu enlisted the help of collaborators Martin Hernandez and Martin Delgado for the album’s curation process. Over the course of the next six months, the trio listened to more than a thousand pieces of music from Sakamoto, eventually focusing on the composer’s lesser-known solo tracks to appeal to both existing fans as well as a new generation of listeners. Opening with “Thousand Knives,” the title track of Sakamoto’s 1978 debut album, and eventually covering releases as recent as his 2017 full-length async, the compilation offers a truly unique and intimate retrospective of the composer’s career from his peer, collaborator, and friend. — milanrecords


   


Track List:
01 - Thousand Knives
02 - The Revenant Main Theme (Alva Noto Remodel)
03 - Before Long
04 - Nuages
05 - LIFE, LIFE
06 - Ma Mère L'Oye
07 - Rose
08 - Tokyo Story
09 - Break With
10 - Blu
11 - Asadoya Yunta
12 - Rio
13 - Reversing
14 - thatness and thereness (2019 Remastering)
15 - Ngo/bitmix
16 - +Pantonal
17 - Laménto
18 - Diabaram
19 - Same Dream, Same Destination
20 - Composition 0919


Media Report:
Genre: ambient, electronic, original soundtrack
Country: Tokyo, Japan
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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 R.I.P.
March 28, 2023 (aged 71)