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His contribution to the Sakamoto album here being one of the last pieces he did.īut there’s much more to this album than rejoicing Sakamoto winning his life battle or just a sad memory of a gone collaborator, which Johannsson was, as were most of the other contributors here Alva Noto, Fennesz or Cornelius, a life-long admirer who took more than a few cues from Sakamoto.Īsync Remodels escapes more than a few traps that remix, remodel (in effect, tribute) albums often suffer from.
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Unfortunately, a participant on Async Remodels, this remodeled version of the original album, Icelandic composer Johan Johannsson, did not win the battle he was fighting. Sakamoto actually had to fight off a bout of throat cancer, which luckily he won. If you wandered why Ryuichi Sakamoto was absent from the music scene for more than eight years before he released the original version of the Async album last year, it had nothing to do with the usual artists “trying to find himself” explanations that PR men come up with to explain why a musician has been absent for so long from the scene.