Async is an Electronic album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, originally released in 2017. On Gatefold: 10 pressings tracked.
About
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first solo album in five years—and first big project since his work on the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack for <i>The Revenant</i>—is a delicate, beautiful, and often unpredictable piece of work. Juxtaposing familiar musical sounds (Bach-like organ processions, twinkling webs of synthesizers) with nonmusical ones (static, cicadas, the sound of feet crunching across leaves, or maybe glass), and soothing harmony with stark discord, Sakamoto creates a quietly dramatic world where disparate sonic information comes together by what seems like accident—just before it gracefully slides apart.
via Apple Music
The Clerk says
The Clerk knows this whole record — the pressing quirks, the credits, the take.
Tracklist
- 1andata4:38
- 2disintegration5:46
- 3solari3:52
- 4ZURE5:11
- 5walker4:20
- 6stakra3:41
- 7ubi4:03
- 8fullmoon5:13
- 9async2:44
- 10tri3:28
- 11Life, Life4:23
- 12honj3:41
- 13ff5:12
- 14garden4:16
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Ambient & Downtempo
- sparse
- meditative
- spiritual
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Released in a digipack, with full-colour wrap around cover.
The speeches in Track 8 are overlayed translations of a passage from Paul Bowles' novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949):
"Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Andri Snær MagnasonVOCALS
- Bernardo BertolucciVOCALS
- Carsten NicolaiVOCALS
- Christine LeboutteVOCALS
- David SylvianVOCALS
- FenneszCOMPUTER, GUITAR GUITAR, COMPUTER
- Ian AntonioPERCUSSION
- Jose LavatVOCALS
- Keyko NimsayVOCALS
- Levy LorenzoPERCUSSION
- Luca DelphiVOCALS
- N.S.S.PERCUSSION
- Priscilla LeungVOCALS
- Ross KarrePERCUSSION
- Sergei MihailovVOCALS
- Shirin NeshatVOCALS
- Simon JamesCONCERTMASTER
- Tang Kit MingVOCALS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 10 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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