It's a rare occasion these days when a certain album manages to shake quietly the foundation of what music is and what it can be. It's very difficult to position an album that breaks all its ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto are set to compose the score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s upcoming adventure epic “The Revenant.” “The Revenant,” which has been publicly plagued by production problems, ...

Latterly, though, his work has been quite extraordinarily subdued and experimental – collaborations with far-leftfield glitch, electronica and ambient luminaries like Christian Fennesz, Carsten ...

Earlier today (April 2), it was revealed that boundary-pushing Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died late last month at age 71, after years of living with cancer. Sakomoto’s management announced the ...

At some point during the sold-out Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto U.S. premiere of their composition “s,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Wednesday night, I had to wonder: how many people are asleep ...

The films of Alejandro González Iñárritu have been scored with keen awareness of the agency of sound design, to intensify atmosphere and to emphasize the physical experience of character. Given this ...

The National's Bryce Dessner and German electronic musician Alva Noto have joined Ryuichi Sakamoto in creating the score for Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming film The Revenant, as Resident ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ryuchi Sakamoto is the Japanese musician who became famous with his electronic trio, Yellow Magic ...

The post Thundercat Reworks Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Thousand Knives” for New Tribute Album: Stream appeared first on Consequence. A new album of reworkings from the catalogue of Ryuichi Sakamoto, titled A ...

Latterly, though, his work has been quite extraordinarily subdued and experimental – collaborations with far-leftfield glitch, electronica and ambient luminaries like Christian Fennesz, Carsten ...

The score gives Alejandro González Iñárritu's film its emotional baseline, summoning the profound disquiet of a forbidding winter in the... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is ...