[1978] Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi?, born January 17, 1952) is an Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played the keyboards in the influential electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in the Japan's Oricon charts history. He was ranked at number 59 in a list of the top 100 most influential musicians compiled by HMV Japan.


Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives Of

Label: Denon
Catalog#: 35C38-7137
Format: CD, Album
Country: Japan
Released: 1984 (original LP 1978)
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Experimental
Credits: Artwork By [Cover Design] - Satoshi Saitoh
Other [Liner Notes] - Haruomi Hosono , Hikaru Hayashi
Other [Recording Management] - Akira Ikuta
Photography [Cover] - Makoto Iida
Producer, Composed By, Orchestrated By, Performer, Synthesizer, Piano, Marimba, Other [Liner Notes] - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Programmed By [Computer Operation & Synthesizer Programming Assistance] - Hideki Matsutake
Notes: On one spine & liner notes is also the translated title: 千のナイフ / 坂本龍一
Recorded from 4/10 to 7/27, 1978 at Columbia Studio No. 1, 2 & 4 Tokyo.

Ryuichi Sakamoto plays:
Moog III-C w. Roland MC-8 Micro Composer
Poly Moog
Mini Moog
Micro Moog
Oberheim Eight Voice Polyphonic w. Digital Programmer
ARP Odyssey
KORG PS-3100 Polyphonic
KORG VC-10 Vocoder
KORG SQ-10 Analog Sequencer
Syn-Drums
Acoustic Piano
Marimba


Tracklisting:

1 Thousand Knives (9:36)
Drum Programming [Syn-drum Solo] - Motoya Hamaguchi
Guitar [Alembic Guitar Solo] - Kazumi Watanabe
Percussion [Finger Cymbals] - Harry Hosono*
2 Island Of Woods (9:51)
Performer [Brazilian Bird Whistles] - Motoya Hamaguchi
3 Grasshoppers (5:16)
Piano - Yuji Takahashi
4 Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volkslied (8:06)
Castanets - Tatsuro Yamashita
5 Plastic Bamboo (6:31)
Drum Programming [Syn-drum Solo] - Pecker
6 The End Of Asia (6:23)
Guitar [Alembic Guitar Solo & Rhythm] - Kazumi Watanabe


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