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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Love is the Devil
Likely due 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 1998’s 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-acentury of technology.
Catalog Number: ASP 0987
Release Date: October 6, 1998
Track Listing
- Lock
- Fall
- Walk
- Sex
- Museum
- Bathroom
- Boxing
- Museum
- Atelier
- Bed-Museum
- Nightmares
- Switch
- Sex
- Redman
- George In Rain
- Redman
- Toilet
- Redman 3
- Owl
- Couch, Set Up, Canvas
- Bed
- NY
- Water Drop
- Paint It Blue
- Car Crash
- Suicide
- Monologue
- Love Is The Devil