Cinemage
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Cinemage is a 1999 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...

. It is a collection of six of his works for film soundtracks and events, recorded live during a 1998 tour with his orchestra. "El Mar Mediterrani" was composed for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, while David Sylvian sings on the famous "Forbidden Colours", but he recorded the vocal parts in the studio after the live performances.

Track listing

  1. "Forbidden Colours
    Forbidden Colours
    "Forbidden Colours" is a song composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto with lyrics by David Sylvian. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and was first released on the soundtrack album...

    " 4:48
  2. "The Last Emperor" 5:17
  3. "Little Buddha" 8:48
  4. "Wuthering Heights" 7:03
  5. "Replica" 4:50
  6. "El Mar Mediterranei" 17:17

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...

     - piano, conductor
  • Yutaka Sado
    Yutaka Sado
    is a Japanese conductor.While still in school, Yutaka Sado obtained a position in the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese school of opera, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, learning operatic repertoire. In 1987, he traveled to the United...

     - conductor
  • 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 (1)
  • DJ Spooky
    DJ Spooky
    Paul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...

     - guitar (6)
  • David Torn
    David Torn
    David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...

    - texture (6)
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