His professorial appearance is as formal and impeccably tailored as the music his expression furrowed, his silver swoop of hair swishing gently as he bows in concentration. Playing solo in front of a select, hushed, reverential audience, Sakamoto alternates between grand piano, vintage synthesizer keyboard and laptop computer. “In April 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto gave a live US premiere performance of his first new non-soundtrack album in eight years at the Veterans Room of the Park Avenue Armory in New York City… async at the Park Avenue Armory is a straight audiovisual record of the concert, low on frills but shot with the kind of forensically crisp production polish that this absorbing, immersive, intricate music deserves… We were delighted to discover that director Stephen Nomura Schible felt the same way and had followed through immediately with this superb concert movie. After seeing Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, we couldn’t get enough Sakamoto.
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