Acclaimed Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is about to launch the 20th anniversary version of BTTB on Wednesday (Sept. 26). The liner notes for this version are by the famend Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami.
In anticipation of the discharge, Sakamoto has dropped a brand new music video for “vitality circulate,” successful monitor from the only “Ura BTTB,” launched in 1999, which grew to become considerably of a social phenomenon in Japan and bought over one million copies. No music video was made on the time, so that is the primary visualization of the superbly haunting piano piece 20 years after its preliminary launch.
The video was produced by the artist duo Zakkubalan, based mostly in New York. The crew of visible artists shot the whole video in Newfoundland, Canada, which is claimed to be the foggiest place on the planet as a result of its distinctive geographical situation. They have been “impressed by the Pine Trees display by the Japanese artist Tohaku Hasegawa” and selected to seize the panorama of Newfoundland to specific Sakamoto and his music’s “deep affinity in direction of the essential parts of nature corresponding to bushes, water, wind, and fog.”
Sakamoto recommended the younger artists on a job properly accomplished within the press launch. “‘vitality circulate’ is definitely a tough music to visualise,” he famous. “I feel Zakkubalan took pains and did an excellent job on it.” He additionally factors out that there seems to be a unfastened storyline to the soothing monotone visuals: “I see vaguely a narrative about leaving one’s hometown after which returning.”
Sakamoto’s upcoming mission is the 20th anniversary version of BTTB, a piano album he initially launched in 1998. Besides “vitality circulate,” the set will characteristic tracks from the first-edition BTTB from 1998, “snake eyes” and “tong poo” from the common model launched the next yr, and “reversing,” included within the worldwide version.
