Sayonara to a Techno-pop Pioneer
A farewell to Ryuichi Sakamoto, architect of sonic futures.
It has been a year since the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away. This is a repost of a eulogy I wrote last April.
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. Ryuichi Sakamoto…
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