RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Alexei And The Spring SEALED CD Yellow Magic Orchestra YMO

Description: Description / Details / Reviews Alexei and the Spring is the original motion picture soundtrack from the award-winning documentary. Alexei and the Spring was awarded Readers' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung at the Berlin Film festival. Includes the previously unreleased solo piano version of the ending theme.Award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has made a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. Sakamoto has experimented with, and excelled in, many different musical styles, making a name for himself in popular, orchestral and film music. A founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), Sakamoto?s film work includes Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, and most recently Alexei & the Spring (winner of the Readers' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung at the Berlin Film festival), and Derrida, winner of Best Documentary Honors at the San Francisco Film Festival.Tracklist1Opening4:102Echo1:223The Fences1:424Winter1:425Glimmer Out1:166Xianren1:537Stream0:488Izba1:339Ending - Short Version4:1210Happiness1:1511Plod1:5612Stream-A0:1413Echo Of The Forest0:4814Looming0:4815Ending5:3516Ending - Piano Version3:51review IWhether it's his work in rock, experimental, orchestral or jazz forms I've always tended to prefer the interior quiet Ryuichi Sakamoto is able to create. The music of this soundtrack is of the sort that must by now come easily to Sakamoto, like breathing. There is nothing forced or artificial, no contortions, nothing extraneous. The pieces tend to do without any but the most subtle key changes and all avoid the telegraphic warnings and alarms of more traditional cadences, deciding in favor of simply letting things come to a stop.The ensemble of instruments is small and intimate, offering a chamber feel. Piano is the favorite, along with a 'cello solo and some kalimba-like tuned percussion, a few synth thonks and some lush pads. Rarely are there more than three voices working at once, a constraint that encourages a quiet and graceful clarity.With a complete lack of affectation and a devotion to delicacy, some pieces come strikingly close to aspects of Eno's much earlier "Music for Films". (Especially the "Sparrowfall" variations from the first "Music for Films" installment). There are also some traces of Harold Budd here and there among the 16 mostly brief tracks. Far less sentimental than Budd and infinitely less naive than Eno, each piece here is masterfully and purposefully understated.review IItruly a most beautiful soundtrack..being a big fan of sakamoto's from way back i have always found his soundtracks intriguing and worth listening to..this is by far the most delicate..at tims haunting and beautiful of all of the ones i have heard.. Not having seen the movie that this goes with.only one's imagination is there to fill in the sound images..The music is graceful..extremely melodic, nuanced and subtle...it flows from start to end..always a master of the catchy melody.Sakamoto has composed truely a wonderful work of music here. CONDITION Sealed, New, Not a promo. SHIPPING In the US: $4.00 for the first CD, .25 each additional. This is for media mail. $4.25 first, .50 each additional for first class. Just let me know if you'd like another sort of shipping, I won't overcharge. In the UK and other places faraway from Minnesota: $17.00 for the first CD, $1.50 each extra. For a priority flat rate box, I'll just charge the exact price. If you buy a bunch it definitely becomes the cheapest option. THANKS SO MUCH, from one music lover to another, I APPRECIATE YOU!

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