About

Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was one of a handful of concerned artists who took part in The Cape Farewell Project, in which scientists joined with the creative community for a conference in Greenland to address and investigate global warming. During his stay in Greenland, Sakamoto made a number of field recordings that he incorporated into his album Out of Noise; the album is dominated by graceful, minimalist keyboard pieces punctuated by electronic noise, ambient sounds and bits of found voices.

This is a lush, all-instrumental work is the first original solo album without any synthesisers used. The album features mainly piano and nature sounds, with invited guests that include the British performance group Fretwork, sho player Tamami Higashino, Gagaku player Koyokai Nanto, and string players of various genres, including Keigo Oyamada, Hirotaka Shimizu, Ren Takada, Christian Fennesse, and Rob Moose. The album also includes "disko," "ice," and "glacier," which were strongly influenced by his experiences in the Arctic Circle, which he visited during the making of the album. The song "glacier" was later used in the movie "The Revenant" (directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2016), and "hibari" and "hwit" were used in the movie "Monster" (directed by Hirokazu Koreeda in 2023). — (via Label)


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Label: Commmons
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Stereo, 180g
Reissued: 2024 / Original Release: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Abstract, Modern Classical, Experimental, Ambient

File under: Japanese Electronic 
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