He is also returning to live performance and curation: it has just been announced he is curating the MODE event series in June and July, around his sold-out Barbican show. And if the rooftop show I ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto has been an enormously respected artist for decades, starting with his work in the '70s and '80s as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra in his native Japan to his deeply affective, ...
“Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus,” director Neo Sora’s posthumous documentary about Japanese musical luminary Ryuichi Sakamoto, will premiere online as a live event on The Criterion Channel. On Sunday, June ...
Elizabeth Lennard, director of the 1985 documentary Tokyo Melody about the famed experimental musician, discusses the film and her memories of Sakamoto. The documentary was conceived after Sakamoto’s ...
The Oscar-winning composer, who died after a lengthy battle with cancer, continued to work until his death. Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese composer who helped introduce electronic music to the world ...
A Japanese musician has released his first album in six years — a collection of compositions recorded during his battle with cancer. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 26, 2023.) ...