Blog: PopMatters

Veteran pianist and electronic collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto and multimedia artist Christopher Willits create a lovely, searching record for Ghostly International. Ryuichi Sakamoto has a way with collaborators. His reflective and emotional piano compositions are timeless and seem tailor-made for an array of electronic treatments. Which is why, for an artist who began his career in the 1970s, he has remained so vital in this new musical era. Following successful collaborations with Alva Noto and Fennesz, in which each artist provided his signature sonics to a suite of piano melodies, Sakamoto moved to Ghostly International to...