He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them. It included the track "Riot in Lagos", which was significant in the development of electro and hip hop music. Two years later, he released the album B-2 Unit. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
“Merry Christmas, Mr.Ryuichi Sakamoto ( 坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). Lawrence and its vocal rendition with Japan frontman David Sylvian, “Forbidden Colours”, have become iconic parts of Sakamoto’s repertoire as both a composer and as a solo musician. Additionally, the title theme to Merry Christmas, Mr.
The success of the film and its soundtrack would catapult Sakamoto into high-demand status as a composer, with him spending much of his career outside YMO creating soundtracks for various other works, including The Last Emperor, The Revenant, the Sega Dreamcast bootup sequence, and the Black Mirror episode “Smithereens”. Sakamoto admitted that he disliked the quality of his acting in the film, thanks to his lack of previous experience in the field, and deliberately made the film’s music overpowering so that it would distract from his performance. In addition to starring as Yonoi, Ryuichi Sakamoto (best known at the time for his work with the synth-pop supergroup Yellow Magic Orchestra) composed the film’s soundtrack, his first scoring project (despite releasing just after the later-penned soundtrack for the short film Daijōbu, My Friend). Lawrence is the soundtrack album to the 1983 Anglo-Japanese war film of the same name, about the relationships between a group of Allied soldiers in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and their captors, particularly focusing on camp commander Captain Yonoi’s conflict between his fervent patriotism and his infatuation with rebellious South African prisoner Jack Celliers (played by David Bowie).
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