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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Async

Album JP 2017 on Commmons label
Electronic (Abstract, Ambient, Experimental, Modern Classical)

Released in a digipack, with full-colour wrap around cover. The speeches in Track 8 are overlayed translations of a passage from Paul Bowles' novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949): "Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

Musicians

	Ryuichi Sakamoto key, p, *1952 JP music by, producer, album by
	Kory Kruckenberg g, b, eb, engineer, protools
	John Winters engineer, second
	Evan Balmer legal, coordination
	Mai Yuda administrator, other, production assistant
	Hirokazu Tanaka other, team skmt
	Itosoken other, team skmt
	Sungwon Kim other, team skmt
	Satoshi Nakashiro public relations
	Hisaou Wakaizumi supervised by, label
	Toshiki Shida supervised by, label
	Kaz Tsujio p, technician, piano
	Fennesz g, *1962 AT computer, guitar
	N.S.S. , percussion, glass singing bowl
	Andri Snær Magnason , vocals, spoken word
	Bernardo Bertolucci , *1941 IT vocals, spoken word
	Carsten Nicolai sax, voc, fl, dr machine, *1965 DE vocals, spoken word
	Christine Leboutte voc, vocals, spoken word
	Jose Lavat , vocals, spoken word
	Keyko Nimsay voc, vocals, spoken word
	Priscilla Leung , vocals, spoken word
	Sergei Mihailov , vocals, spoken word
	Shirin Neshat , *1957 IR vocals, spoken word
	Tang Kit Ming , vocals, spoken word
	Ian Antonio perc, dr, *1981 US percussion
	Levy Lorenzo perc, percussion
	Ross Karre perc, percussion
	Ko Ishikawa voc, *1963 JP sho
	David Sylvian voc, g, *1958 GB vocals, spoken word
	Arseny Tarkovsky , words by
	Honjoh Hidejiro , shamisen
	David Sabee vc, US contractor

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