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Always mastered the art of deconstructing the past and present, to lead to a broader future.
Ryuchi Sakamoto (Tokyo, 1952), who has just released Playing the piano and Out of noise, again touring solo after ten years and comes on Thursday 19 November to Cartagena Jazz Festival with all the tickets already sold.
The Japanese musician, tireless experimenter plays with sounds, with harmony and noise.
Has developed a great career characterized by cross musical boundaries and technology.
Has experienced and triumphed in many different musical styles to become one of the most respected composers and performers worldwide in the field of popular music, soundtracks and orchestrated music.
Always on the lookout for new experiences and forms of musical expression has never ceased in its efforts to expand the established limits, which is often a pioneer in the mix of styles and technologies, taking his art to new areas previously unexplored.
Claiming influences from Beethoven to The Beatles, the Ryuchi Sakamoto's musical interests are unusually diverse: pop, techno-pop, jazz, bossa nova, classical, contemporary, acoustic, electric, film music for the world music scene.
Founding member of legendary band Yellow Magic Orchestra has composed soundtracks for 18 films including major and independent film productions.
He won an Oscar for The Last Emperor.
In his latest creative period, Sakamoto, has explored a musical world with Morelenbaum, Carsten Nicolai, Christian Fennesz on various projects, or meet again on Yellow Magic Orchestra.
With Sakamoto find is the only change.
We can say that Sakamoto has participated in several major cultural events in recent decades.
He started the electro pop with the formation of Yellow Magic Orchestra.
He composed music for the ceremony of the Olympic Games in Barcelona.
His soundtracks have won an Oscar, two Golden Globes and a Grammy.
And he has worked with Bernardo Bertolucci, William Burroughs, David Bowie, Iggy Pop Pedro Almodovar overwhelming Sakamoto path has raised no fanfare.
Comes to the Cartagena Jazz Festival has presented his last two albums.
Out of noise in question the line between music and noise and explore the hinterland where the sounds fade until they melt into the background noise.
His search led him to Greenland, where he joined the Cape Farewell project for the cultural response to climate change.
Sakamoto was haunted by some sounds of the Arctic.
If Out of noise leads to remote landscapes Sakamoto, Playing the piano, his other record, is a shift to more intimate corners.
The musician reinterprets the best-known piano pieces from his repertoire: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky or Thousand Knieves.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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