Blog: Consequence Of Sound

"I tried to explain to my friends who I was going to see, but nobody knew who he was," said the woman in front of me as we lined up to get into the Vogue Theatre on Monday for Ryuichi Sakamoto 's sold-out concert. The sentiment was mutual, it seemed. As people passed by us on the street, they all craned their necks at the marquee to see what artist was prompting hundreds of people to line-up outside in the pouring rain. You could see see it in their faces, "Ryuichi Sakamoto? Who the hell is that?" [...]