Ryuichi Sakamoto, an eclectic Japanese composer who was an early leader in electronic pop music and became an acclaimed composer of film scores, notably Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, died on March 28 aged 71.
In 2015, filmmaker Alejandro Iñárrito asked Sakamoto to write music for his survivalist filmstarring Leonardo DiCaprio as a frontiersman staving off vicious bears and the elements in the early 19th century.
“I remember our house was always full of writers, poets and creative people who were sort of outcasts in Japanese society, sitting around talking and drinking all night,” Sakamotoof London. “I was very conscious of being different from other people; it felt natural to be different.” For his many solo albums, Sakamoto used the term “Neo Geo” to describe a musical melting pot with no geographical borders.
He became increasingly concerned about the environment, especially after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. He recorded music on a waterlogged piano in a school destroyed by the resulting tsunami and incorporated those and other sounds harvested from forests and oceans into the 2017 albumSakamoto, who had lived in New York City since 1990, was married several times, including to pop singer Akiko Yano.
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