Ryuichi Sakamoto

Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2023

Another major year-end list is here… can you guess Pitchfork’s #1?

Winter Jazzfest 2024: Shabaka, Hannibal Buress, Moor Mother, a Ryuichi Sakamoto tribute, more

NYC Winter Jazzfest 2024 also includes esperanza spalding, Irreversible Entanglements, Marc Ribot, Elucid of Armand Hammer, a Pharoah Sanders tribute, and more.

Watch Co-Pilot (Jim Noir / Soundcarriers) pay tribute to Yellow Magic Orchestra on "Motosaka"

Co Pilot is the duo of Jim Noir’s Alan Roberts and The Soundcarriers’ Leonore Wheatley and “Motosaka” is the new single from their debut album.

Ryuichi Sakamoto made a playlist for his own funeral (listen)

“He truly was with music until the very end,“ Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s management wrote.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, dead at 71

Sakamoto had been battling stage 4 cancer.

100 Albums We're Anticipating in 2023

Here are 100 albums we can’t wait to hear in 2023, including Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Caroline Polachek, M83, Ride, Slowdive, ANOHNI, Wednesday, Youth Lagoon, blink-182, awakebutstillinbed, Danny Brown, Death Grips, and more…

Ryuichi Sakamoto announces new album '12' and livestream concert

Sakamoto‘s first album since 2017 was recorded over the last two-and-a-half years while battling cancer, with the tracks serving as a “sound diary“ to the time.

Ryuichi Sakamoto tribute LP coming, Thundercat's track streaming now

Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange), Cornelius, Fennesz, David Sylvian, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and more are also on the LP…

Ryuichi Sakamoto battling stage 4 cancer: report

”Since I have made it this far in life, I hope to be able to make music until my last moment, like Bach and Debussy whom I adore,” he said in a statement.
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