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Then you’ve got somber, stripped-down tracks (“Bring Them Home,” “Manatsu No Yo No Ana,” “Aoneko No Torso”) starring piano and violin.
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“Bibo No Aozora” and “Aisheteru, Aishetenai” are uncanny predecessors of Guero-era Beck, full of industrial swagger. The OG was right, though, that you don’t know what to expect from this album. Is it a comma or a period? The OG’s refusal to capitalize anything is really not helping the matter either. The confusion is furthered by the ambiguity of the punctuation between the clauses. The OG’s remarks on the album were, “this is great, you don’t know what to expect.” It’s unclear whether the OG meant that the music itself is great, and you also don’t know what’s coming, or whether the very fact that you don’t know what to expect means that the experience will be great. I picked up the CD because I thought the original grader (OG) had given it an A I later realized the “A” might actually be a haphazardly-drawn star. It’s called Smoochy, it’s from 1996, and its cover features the picture of a man who looks like the Japanese, metrosexual (okay, more metrosexual) Fred Armisen. Which brings us to the album I stumbled across in the World section of the WRMC archives. ( This song will have you addicted.)Īpparently, Sakamoto has had a prolific solo career. His pretty long Wikipedia page told me that he’s part of Yellow Magic Orchestra, the awesome Japanese group that was making electronic music way ahead of their time. These posts highlight some of what our archives have to offer.Įver heard of Ryuichi Sakamoto? Me neither. There’s a special pleasure derived from browsing tangible things, but it’s even more fun when those things have pithy reviews by WRMC alumni. Unlike your typical library, each work in WRMC’s collection is graded. Like your typical library, WRMC’s collection of CDs and LPs has some great stuff from the past that’s worth checking out. See Top 30 Archivist’s Revenge: Ryuichi Sakamotoīy Luke Schanz-Garbassi on March 14, 2013