Search - Ryuichi Sakamoto :: Esperanto

Art of musical seduction

Simon Koyama | London, UK | 09/02/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This little known album by Ryuichi is his finest one as his avant-garde music stuff. He's mellowed down considerably recently, perhaps because of his own reputation in the past, producing some banal albums such as Smoochy, BTTB, etc. The general public may be pleased to listen to those banal understandable albums, but the most committed members of his audience would find this album Esperanto much more interesting and even more seductive. The music in the album is self-contained, despite the fact it was supposed to have been composed for an American dancer for her dance performance. As the commentary, which is included in the sold CD case, says (in Japanese), you would feel as if the dance performance were for his music, rather than his for hers."