Though not throwing up as many sparks with them as might have been expected - what might he do with Bovell now? - it clearly shows him to be an adventuresome oddball rather than a trendy studio hack. While with YMO, he made B-2 Unit with the help of British reggae musician/producer Dennis Bovell and XTC’s Andy Partridge. Only surreal environment-conjuring on one track and musical cross-pollination on another hint at the avant-garde and world music aspects of Sakamoto’s later work. Presaging his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra (which he formed later that year), the record consists of electronic disco, commendably quirky for the time it was recorded but now largely dated, with some unnecessary guitar soloing - the chief guest performance on the disc, since almost everything else was played by Sakamoto. He continued after getting an MFA and, in 1978, released his first solo album, Thousand Knives.
Keyboardist Sakamoto did his first session work during his post-graduate studies of electronic and ethnic music at the University of Art of Tokyo in the mid-’70s.
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The album will also be released as a 2-LP limited edition gatefold including the album’s full instrumental mix. The recordings have been newly remastered from the original tapes by renowned engineer Bernie Grundman, this LP edition comes with original artwork featuring a striking cover shot by famous photographer Masayoshi Sukita (sourced from the original negative), OBI strip and 4-page insert with new introduction by journalist Anton Spice. Save for a small-scale Dutch vinyl release in 1981, it is the first time the album’s original Japanese edition is released outside of Japan (the European release on Epic Records included significantly different tracks and mixes).” Yukihiro Takahashi (c) MIDI INC The label adds: “Wewantsounds is proud to announce the reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s third solo album Hidari Ude No Yume ( Left Handed Dream), originally released in 1981 on the Alfa label. Altogether this International version called Left-Handed Dream was a very different album from the Japanese one and although both were successful at the time and further established Ryuichi Sakamoto as a global solo artist, the Japanese edition of Hidari Ude No Yume remains largely unknown to international ears.Īlso joining, were keyboard programmer extraordinaire Hideki Matsutake – who’d been on Sakamoto’s first two albums and became YMO’s unofficial fourth member, violinist Kaoru Sato, saxophonist Satoshi Nakamura and American guitarist Adrian Belew who’d played with David Bowie, Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. These included his fellow YMO musicians Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. Last but not least, a new English-sung track, The Arrangement, was added, making the album nine tracks instead of ten for the Japanese edition. The sequencing was completely reshuffled and two tracks, Saru No Ie and Living In The Dark were completely dropped while three others, Relâché, T ell ’em To Me, Venezia were heavily remodelled with English lyrics and became Just About Enough, Once In A Lifetime and The Left Bank. The album was released in Japan in 1981 and Epic Records picked it up for Europe a year later but decided to release it in a significantly altered version. They entered the Alfa studio in July 1981, accompanied by a handful of musicians. For this new album Hidari Ude No Yume, Sakamoto invited British producer Robin Scott – who had had huge hit with Pop Muzik – to co-produce. In 1981, the musician decided to record an album rooted in pop, following B-2 Unit, which had a more of an experimental edge and his landmark electro debut Thousand Knives Of from 1978.
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