Sayonara to a Techno-pop Pioneer
A farewell to Ryuichi Sakamoto, architect of sonic futures.
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On Monday, the world learned that pioneering Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away at the untimely age of 71 last week. I am often asked if there was anything I wanted to write about in Pure Invention but couldn’t. There are many such topics, but the number one “chapter that wasn’t” would have been about music. Sak…
