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From Amazon.com:
Due likely to his other careers as a pop artist, producer, classical composer, actor, and fashion model, Ryuichi Sakamoto the film scorer has averaged less than one film a year since his delightfully melodic debut, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence in 1983. But the Academy Award winner (The Last Emperor) has clearly eschewed quantity for quality, and his often-chilling music for Love Is the Devil (the first feature by vidoegrapher John Maybury--a disturbing portrait of artist Francis Bacon and his dark, obsessive relationship with his model/lover, George Dyer) is no exception. Sakamoto has long resisted composing mere musical narration for his film assignments; here he gets inside the characters by using the diverse palette and electronic techniques gleaned from his often cutting-edge pop work. This masterful melange of samples, treated piano, electronics, and white noise plays like a modern horror masterpiece, an eerie techno-concerto that owes more to Sakamoto's days as a student of electronic music and the avant-garde than to his sunny turn as leader of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Think Bernard Herrmann displaced by an ocean and half-a-century of technology. --Jerry McCulley
Best Sakamoto's score so far:
This is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking and innovative scores ever recorded. It is the best score Sakamoto has composed so far, I can't describe it accurately, it's just beyond words and musical styles. This soundtrack makes you forget about the boring and uninspired scores for films such as "The Last Emperor" or "Snake Eyes". It's a pity that the majority of the works composed by Sakamoto do not match up to this wonderful and unrepeateable one. Above all, a very stimulating (and pretty underrated too) recording but not for all listeners (as a real masterpiece should be). Love it or hate it but just give it a try, you have never heard anything like this before and you won't forget it easily. Very recommended. PD-I would give it six stars if I could.
| Artist: | Ryuichi Sakamoto | | Binding: | Audio CD | | EAN: | 0753027098726 | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Original Release Date: | 1998-10-06 | | Release Date: | 1998-09-21 | | UPC: | 753027098726 |
Tracks:- Lock
- Fall
- Walk
- Sex
- Museum
- Bathroom
- Boxing
- Museum
- Atelier
- Bed-Museu
- Nightmares
- Switch
- Sex
- Redman 1
- George in Rain
- Redman 2
- Toilet
- Redman 3
- Owl
- Couch, Set up, Canvas
- Bed
- NY
- Water Dro
- Paint It Blue
- Car Crash
- Suicide
- Monologue
- Love Is the Devil
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