Description
. opera house / incl. booklet
Artist
Carsten Nicolai met Ryuichi Sakamoto during his first tour in Japan, and a year later he was commissioned to remix Sakamoto's material for the Japanese magazine Code Unfinished. After enjoying the resulting track, Sakamoto sent Nicolai more material for post-procession and manipulation.
Results of 2-year music exchange were released as Vrioon on Raster-Noton in 2002, and the album was voted as the electronica record of the year by the Wire Magazine. On the follow-up Insen released two years later the collaborative process deepened – this time Alva Noto is not just counterbalancing Sakamoto's piano passages with his trademark sounds, he processes them further, dismantles in micro-loops and atoms, of which new sounds are formed. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto went on their second major tour with Insen in 2005, and to coincide with the duo released a CD single Revep.
In 2007, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto together with a German contemporary classical Ensemble Modern created an audio-visual performance for the 400th anniversary of the city of Mannheim. The resulting composition called utp_ (deduced “Utopia”) was released on CD and CD/DVD in 2008 by Raster-Noton.
The next album Summvs was released in 2011. And the latest project of Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto to date is a soundtrack for an Oscar-winning film The Revenant (2015) by Alejandro González Iñárritu, created in collaboration with Bryce Dessner.
Tracks
1
Inosc
07:25
2
Propho
05:55
3
Trioon II (Live)
05:36
4
Scape I
02:44
5
Berlin (Live)
05:20
6
Scape II
01:55
7
Morning (Live)
04:15
8
Iano (Live)
04:29
9
Emspac
04:39
10
Kizuna (Live)
04:29
11
Gitrac
03:54
12
Monomom
06:38
13
Panois
02:32
14
Naono (Live)
11:16
15
The Revenant Theme (Live)
06:14
Releases
Members
Ryuichi Sakamoto,Carsten Nicolai
