async
by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Type: Album
- Released: 29 March 2017
- Label: Commmons, Milan
- Country: Japan
- Length: 1:00:28
- Community rating: 4.2/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'async', his first solo album after recovering from cancer, was conceived as a score for an imaginary Andrei Tarkovsky film. The work explores concepts of asynchronicity and mortality by juxtaposing field recordings, out-of-tune pianos, and unconventional acoustic sources with sparse electronic textures. Its structure intentionally blurs the distinction between noise and music, using the coexistence of unsynchronized sounds to create a meditative, and at times dissonant, reflection on life and human interaction.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, dissonant, atmospheric, piano, unadorned, ambient, minimal, electronic
Tracklist
Credits
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - music by, producer, liner notes, composition, performance, piano, keyboards, field recordings
- David Sylvian - readings
- Paul Bowles - readings, spoken word
- Ian Antonio - triangles
- Levy Lorenzo - triangles
- Ross Karre - triangles
- The Northwest Sinfonia - performer
- Shiro Takatani - art direction, photography
- Yoko Takatani - artwork [producer]
- Simon James - concertmaster
- David Sabee - contractor
- Takuya Minami - design
- Kory Kruckenberg - engineer [protools engineer]
- Conrad Hensel - engineer [recording engineer], recorded, mixed
- John Winters - engineer [second engineer]
- Jason Staniulis - engineer [studio assistant engineers], assistant engineering
- Matthew Sim - engineer [studio assistant engineers], assistant engineering
- Jean-Christophe Chamboredon - executive-producer [milan records]
- Masato "Max" Matsuura - executive-producer
- Evan Balmer - legal [legal coordination]
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Norika Sora - producer [associate producer]
- Mai Yuda - producer [production assistant], administrator [administration], assistant production
- Joachim Pineau - production manager [coordination for milan (eu)]
- Pablo Manyer - production manager [coordination for milan (north america)]
- Alec Fellman - production manager, engineer [assistant engineer], assistant engineering
- Alex Venguer - recorded by [recording engineer @ germano studios], recorded
- Seigen Ono - recorded by [recording engineer @ kyoto], recorded
- Ryan Kelly - recorded by [recording engineer @ mad], recorded
- Jon Schluckebier - stage manager
- Kaz Tsujio - technician [piano]