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To record the perfect album

Composer Sakamoto dreams of a masterpiece 'before I die'

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Actor-musician Ryuichi Sakamoto
Paris - Arab Today

Before he dies, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto wants to do just one thing: "To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish."

The actor-musician burst onto the international scene with his soundtrack for the 1983 film "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" in which he also played a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp commandant opposite his friend David Bowie.

The rock legend's death earlier this year shook Sakamoto badly, having only just survived throat cancer himself.

"It left me in shock for a long time," Sakamoto told AFP in a low, barely audible voice. 

"It took me more than a month and a half to accept the reality of his death. I couldn't believe it." 

Bowie died on the same day as the Golden Globe awards, in which Sakamoto had been nominated for his score for "The Revenant", marking his comeback from cancer.

Still exhausted by his illness, the pianist had toiled for months on the soundtrack.
"I worked on the music for six long months. Normally it would take me two months maximum. Sometimes four weeks is enough. But it was terribly difficult," he added. 

"It was just after my treatment, and I wasn't back on my feet. My morale wasn't the best and it wasn't an ideal situation," said the 64-year-old, a pioneer of synthpop, techno and house music genres.

But his love of nature and working on an installation with his friend and longtime collaborator artist Shiro Takatani for "The Great Animal Orchestra" exhibition in Paris helped put him back on his feet.

- 'Delighted to be alive' -

"It's a choreography of tiny (aquatic) creatures," he said.

"I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree."

The composer was speaking on a visit to the French capital, where the work is on show at the Fondation Cartier until January 2017.

A huge star in his native Japan, like Bowie he has lived in New York for years. But Sakamoto still misses "the beautiful facets of Japanese culture" and particularly Kyoto, the most traditional of Japanese cities.
Working with Takatani -- who lives there -- helps bridge the gap. The pair have been collaborating for nearly two decades on works like "Garden Live" (2007) in the Daitoku-ji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, and on "Forest Symphony" in 2013.

Sakamoto -- who won his Oscar for Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor in 1987, in which he also acted -- said composing for an art installation was "completely different than for a disc, a concert or a film". 

While he was working on "The Revenant" for director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, he was also preparing another score for "Nagasaki: Memories of My Son" by the veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.

And he has done another soundtrack since for the Korean Lee Sang-il's "Anger", which comes out later this year.

But it is his own music which is preoccupying Sakamoto now. 

Having gone seven years without making an album, he said "it is time to bring out another".

"I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece before I die. That is my dearest wish, and I am working on it."

Source: AFP

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