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1996 (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

1996 studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Summary

1996 studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Field	Value
name	1996
type	Studio
artist	Ryuichi Sakamoto
cover	1996 - Ryuichi Sakamoto.png
released
studio	Right Track (New York City)
genre	Chamber music
length
label	Güt, For Life, Milan
producer	Ryuichi Sakamoto
prev_title	Smoochy
prev_year	1995
next_title	Discord
next_year	1997

1996 is a 1996 album by Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. It contains a selection of Sakamoto's most popular compositions plus two new compositions, all arranged for a standard piano trio. The arrangement of "Bibo no Aozora" that appears on this album has appeared in several film and television projects; one notable example is the film Babel, whose soundtrack features both the 1996 version and the /04 version of the song.

Track listing

All songs composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The CD releases on the Milan label in the U.S. and Brazil have only tracks 1–12. The Milan CD release in the UK has only tracks 1–15.

Live concert

A concert, called Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio World Tour, was organized in 1996. The setlist of this concert is different than the original album. This concert was played at 6 venues in Japan, and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall concert was live streamed on August 28, 1996, on the Internet, and was one of the first concerts to be streamed. This concert was released on both DVD and Laserdisc.

Personnel

Performers

Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano
Jaques Morelenbaum – cello
Everton Nelson – violin (tracks 1, 3 – 7, 9 – 12 & 14)
David Nadien – violin (tracks 2 & 8)
Barry Finclair – violin (tracks 13 & 15)

Technical

Fernando Aponte – engineer, mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering
Joe Lizzi & Jason Goldstein – assistant engineers
Hideki Nakajima – art direction, design
Yoshinori Ochiai – design
Kazunari Tajima – photography
Clare de Graw & David Rubinson – production managers

References

Wikipedia Source

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