NYT Sakamoto interview for "async"

[natsume]

Sylvian and Fennesz quoted via email.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/arts ... rview.html

[Quiet Visitor]

Thanks. That was a fine interview, which shines some light on a couple of aspects of the new album.

[dconnery1966]

Cheers for that

[silentwings]

Wonderfully detailed review of async live...

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2017/04/2 ... ue-armory/

[silentwings]

"One of the songs on the album, "Life, Life," quotes a poem from Andrei's father, Arseny. Why did you choose that poem specifically, and what was it like to again work with David Sylvian, who read the poem?

I've been reading Arseny Tarkovsky's poems for a long time, but this poem is about life and dreams, so naturally it sounds very charming and interesting to me after cancer. But this recording of the poem by David Sylvian was actually made right after the big tsunami and earthquake happened in Japan in 2011. So David sent me around ten recordings of Arseny's poems and I used maybe three of them for a charity concert for Japan around that time. "

Full interview: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2983

[javier]

"One of the songs on the album, "Life, Life," quotes a poem from Andrei's father, Arseny. Why did you choose that poem specifically, and what was it like to again work with David Sylvian, who read the poem?

... this recording of the poem by David Sylvian was actually made right after the big tsunami and earthquake happened in Japan in 2011.

So Sakamoto has simply pulled out a 6 year old sample to use in his latest work. In other words, this isn't a creative collaboration with Sylvian at all...(yawn).

[missouriman]

Why so negative javier? It works. It works very well. It's a very emotional track.

[javier]

Why so negative javier? It works. It works very well. It's a very emotional track.

Maybe my comment came across in an unintended way.

I wasn't trying to suggest that the work isn't worthwhile, just the point that it's not a "collaboration". So any anticipation of new Sylvian/Sakamoto joint creativity was misplaced. Hope dashed again!

Collaboration was nonexistent. It was effectively just using an old sample from the vaults.