Chasm is the 15th studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

 and was released in 2004. The album is experimental, pairing Sakamoto's piano work with ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 and glitch programming. Notably, Sakamoto's former bandmates from Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...

, Haruomi Hosono

Haruomi Hosono

, also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese popular musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.-Biography:...

 and Yukihiro Takahashi

Yukihiro Takahashi

Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...

, contribute on several songs under their own production name, Sketch Show

Sketch Show (band)

Sketch Show is a Japanese duo formed in 2002 by two of the three former members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi...

.

"coro" was featured on the soundtrack to the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 film Appleseed, while "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano

World Citizen (album)

World Citizen is an EP by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian. It was released in 2003 in Japan, and in 2004 in UK. The two editions have different track lists and different covers...

" and "only love can conquer hate" were featured in the film Babel. The original version of "Ngo", featured on the single for "Undercooled", was used in a New Balance

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 advertisement.

Track listing

All songs by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

1. "Undercooled" – 4:32
2. "coro" – 4:05
3. "War & Peace" – 5:31
4. "CHASM" – 3:30
5. "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano
   World Citizen (album)
   World Citizen is an EP by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian. It was released in 2003 in Japan, and in 2004 in UK. The two editions have different track lists and different covers...
   
   " – 6:05
6. "only love can conquer hate" – 9:47
7. "Ngo / bitmix" – 5:10
8. "Break With" – 4:35
9. "+pantonal" – 3:58
10. "The Land Song - Music for Artelligent City / one winter day mix" – 5:08
11. "20 msec." – 5:32
12. "Laménto" – 3:43
13. "World Citizen / re-cycled" – 4:57
14. "Seven Samurai - ending theme" – 5:41

US promo copy

1. "Undercooled" – 4:32
2. "coro" – 4:05
3. "War & Peace" – 5:31
4. "CHASM" – 3:30
5. "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano" – 6:05
6. "only love can conquer hate" – 9:47
7. "Ngo / bitmix" – 5:10
8. "Break With" – 4:35
9. "+pantonal" – 3:58
10. "20 msec." – 5:32
11. "Laménto" – 3:43
12. "World Citizen / re-cycled" – 4:57
13. "Song" – 4:30
14. "Word" – 5:00
15. "Seven Samurai - ending theme" – 5:41

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   - all piano and keyboards; producer of all songs except "War & Peace"
• Sketch Show
  Sketch Show (band)
  Sketch Show is a Japanese duo formed in 2002 by two of the three former members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi...
  
   - sound programming on "Undercooled", "War & Peace", "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano" and "Ngo / bitmix"
• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   - vocals and lyrics on both "World Citizen" tracks
• Keigo Oyamada - guitar on "Undercooled" and "World Citizen / re-cycled"; CDJ-800
  CDJ-800
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   on "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano"
• Luiz Brasil
  Luiz Brasil
  Luiz Brasil is a Brazilian guitarist. He is best known as a guitarist who has performed with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Nando Reis, Cassia Eller, and many other vocalists.He was born into a musical family: his mother played piano, his brothers Jorge and Marcelo became drummers, and his...
  
   - guitar on "Undercooled" and "War & Peace"
• Amadeo Pace - guitar on "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano"
• Jaques Morelenbaum
  Jaques Morelenbaum
  Jaques Morelenbaum is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer.Morelenbaum is the son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra; and Eduardo...
  
   - cello on "Undercooled" and "War & Peace"
• MC Sniper
  MC Sniper
  MC Sniper is a South Korean male rapper. Recording artist and founder of underground hip-hop crew Buddha Baby, MC Sniper is considered a controversial and relatively influential musician in South Korea...
  
   - vocals on "Undercooled"
• Maucha Adnet - vocals on "Ngo / bitmix"
• Haruomi Hosono
  Haruomi Hosono
  , also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese popular musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
   - medicine drum on "War & Peace"
• Arto Lindsay
  Arto Lindsay
  Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
  
   - producer of "Undercooled" and "War & Peace"
• Ryoji Ikeda
  Ryoji Ikeda
  Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Paris. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing...
  
   - "processing" on "World Citizen / re-cycled"
• Marcelo Costa - percussion on "War & Peace"
• Cao Xue Jing - erhu
  Erhu
  The erhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a "southern fiddle", and sometimes known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese two-stringed fiddle". It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles...
  
   on "Undercooled"
• Carlos Núñez - whistle
  Whistle
  A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...
  
   on "The Land Song"
• Jiang Jian Hua - erhu on "Break With" and "Seven Samurai - ending theme"
• Jan Xiao-Qing - gu zheng on "Seven Samurai - ending theme"
• Aya Motohashi - hichiriki
  Hichiriki
  The is a double reed Japanese fue used as one of two main melodic instruments in Japanese gagaku music, the other being the ryūteki. The hichiriki is difficult to play, due in part to its double reed configuration. Although a double reed instrument like the oboe, the hichiriki has a cylindrical...
  
   on "The Land Song" and "Seven Samurai - ending theme"
• Dozan Fujiwara - shakuhachi
  Shakuhachi
  The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...
  
  on "Seven Samurai - ending theme"