The taste for experiments of Japanese Ryuichi Sakamoto seems not to have an end, and after his already remote pass through the band Electro Light Orchestra and his successful cinematographic experiences -Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrence (1983) and The Sheltering Sky (1990), among others -, seems to undertake a new project that joins the purely musical facet as well as the multimedia environment named Discord. The first delivery of this curious experiment is this disk of blue monochromatic design, with the generic of Untitled No.1; split into four parts without thematic coherence, Sakamoto makes a good use of a great symphonic orchestra as well as of certain electronic element additions.Grief, the first part and perhaps the most interesting, draws a harmonic and structural profile of curious Japanese connotations (curious, given the scarce orientalist trend of Sakamoto's music) and is laced, without solution of continuity, with the very violent and repetitious Anger. The third movement, Prayer, it is of a praised simplicity and eloquence, using repeated figurations in an almost minimalist environment; Salvation, the last part, recaptures the theme of the first movement and surrounds it of commentaries on salvation extracted from conversations and interviews. The total result is close to the world of sensations, in a way between delicate and brutal, better achieved if it can be listened/see the work in its audiovisual wholeness, this is from the computer thanks to its multimedia part while is listened the music. The obtained effect is very interesting.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Spooky, David Torn - "The Orchestra" - Director: Yutaka Sado
SONY CLASSICAL SK60121 / 55'

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