This is a beautiful union of piano and electronics and likely the only of its kind.
Alva noto ryuichi sakamoto vrioon vinyl.
During his first live tour in japan carsten nicolai met ryuichi sakamoto in tokyo.
Alva noto carsten nicolai ryuichi sakamoto have been playing together for many years now their first collaborative lp vrioon dates from 2002.
The duo s new album two acts as a celebration of noto sakamoto s artistic legacy both of their previous work and also of the musical understanding that they have built up down the years.
These words will have difficulty describing the exquisite detail and nuance crafted by alva noto and sakamoto.
View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 2002 vinyl release of vrioon on discogs.
Vrioon is a more organic and meditative work than their later collaboration on insen.
One year later nicolai was asked to remix material from sakamoto for the japanese magazine code unfinished.
The material that was given.
Vrioon quite simply is a work overloaded with beauty.
These words will have difficulty describing the exquisite detail and nuance crafted by alva noto and sakamoto.
He is a member of the music groups diamond version with olaf bender byetone signal with frank bretschneider and olaf bender cyclo with ryoji ikeda anbb with blixa bargeld alphabet with anne james chaton opto with thomas knak and alva noto ryuichi sakamoto with whom he composed the score.
Raster noton vyr050 format.
Previously i was unfamiliar with alva noto s work but i got hooked on ryuichi sakamoto many years ago with his 1991 album heartbeat the sounds of which are strongly reflected in the excellent eno byrne collaboration my life in the bush of ghosts in the 2005 album chasm sakamoto goes a bit farther out with noise compositions.
Carsten nicolai 18 september 1965 known as alva noto is a german musician and visual artist.
Sure richard d james introduced his army of devotees to the works of satie on his sprawling drukqs but vrioon managed to intigrate the discipline.
The blue solitary piano of sakamoto bleeding into the micro constructions of carsten nicolai s rewired machinery.
When carsten nicolai and ryuichi sakamoto got together to record 2003 s vrioon it probably hadn t occurred to them that they were single handedly re positioning minimal piano music at the head of the electronic food chain.
Alva noto ryuichi sakamoto.
Vrioon is a more organic and meditative work than their later collaboration on insen.
