Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Street Chant B1 Between Us And The

B1 Between Us And The Dying Starlight

the Los Angeles musician aligns his visual obsessions with his wide-ranging musical instincts

” And it’s easy to see how a voice beloved for its fire would turn fans cold after dimming its spark

Yamash'ta never reached the creativity heard in 'Sunrise From West Sea' again

and Steve Williamson

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Street Chant B1 Between Us And TheRyuichi Sakamoto's first solo album appeared before he formed Yellow Magic Orchestra in late 1978, after the young keyboardist had earned his M. A. in music from Tokyo University. Six long instrumentals make up this album, but apart from a taste for Asian sounding synth lines, they hint at very little of what was to come in YMO. "Thousand Knives" is a long disco lite jazzy workout with a guitar solo by Kazumi Watanabe (who would later join YMO on tour