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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto to release live album
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 8 October 2019
Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and German electronic musician Alva Noto have announced a new live album, ‘Two’. Recorded at the Sydney Opera House last year, the performance saw the two artists improvising new pieces, as well as performing work from their individual back catalogues.
“[This] pulsing, immersive live performance melded electronic and analogue instrumentation with striking visuals to create one of the most precise, beautiful and challengingly magnetic pieces we have ever had the privilege of staging”, says the Sydney Opera House’s Head Of Contemporary Music Ben Marshall. “That Sakamoto and Noto are pleased enough with the recorded result to share its continuously unfolding, sinuous, questioning music with others is as singular an honour as it was for Sydney Opera House to host them”.
Two more ‘Two’ performances are set to take place in Italy next month. The album is set for release on 15 Nov. Listen to closing track – Sakamoto’s ‘The Revenant Theme’ – here:
Here’s the full tracklist for the release:
Inosc
Propho
Trioon II
Scape I
Berlin
Scape II
Morning + Iano
Emspac
Kizuna
Gitrac
Monomom
Panois
Naono
The Revenant Theme
