Jeroen van Veen – Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Jeroen van Veen - Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

A comprehensive collection of Sakamoto’s instrumental songs and film music from a master of Minimalist piano.

Famed worldwide as a film composer, Ryiuchi Sakamoto began his career as a pianist, creating patterns, phrases and innovative arrangements before joining his first commercial electronic pop band in 1978, the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Around the same time, he worked on his first solo album, the Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978), which blends up-to-date electronic techniques with an old-fashioned gift for good tunes. Riot in Lagos brought him fame beyond Japan, and he went on to work with many top producers of pop, dance and electro.

In 1983, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence launched Sakamoto’s career as a film composer, which has gone from strength to strength with scores for The Last Emperor (1987) and The Revenant (2015). All these pieces feature in Jeroen van Veen’s survey, which is based on the best modern edition of these scores and often differs from Sakamoto’s own, partly improvised recordings.

Classical listeners will appreciate Sakamoto’s breadth of reference: to Chopin (Ubi), Bach (Andata, Solari), Glass (Bibo no Aozora), Satie (Opus), Brahms (Intermezzo) and Ravel (Bachata), for example. But his language of minimalist jazz is one enjoyed around the world as music that gives listeners the space to think and work and create for themselves.

‘Van Veen has a lovely, rounded, ringing, almost bell-like sound (highly appropriate for Pärt’s tintinnabuliations) and a wonderful sense of ebb and flow. Never does the music sound rushed in his hands, and more importantly never does it meander and lose its way… This may be the finest collection of his complete piano works available.’ (Fanfare, March/April 2015 on the complete piano music of Arvo Pärt, BC95053)

Ryuichi Sakamoto is an internationally renowned music composer, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1952. Over the last three decades he has worked on numerous collaborative, solo- and film albums, winning numerous awards for his contributions to the world music industry. Sakamoto found a particular appeal in electronic music, later experimenting with a number of genres such as New Wave, Ambient and Minimalism. Having been educated in ethnic music, particularly South Asian and African music, Sakamoto began his career playing the piano, creating patterns, phrases and innovative arrangements before finally joining his first commercial electronic pop band in 1978, called Yellow Magic Orchestra.

On this new recording Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen plays covers of Sakamoto’s music, a unique experience that open the listener’s mind providing space to think and create.

Another ground breaking concept by Jeroen van Veen, who previously released immensely successful sets of music by Einaudi, Yiruma, Tiersen, Richter, Adams, Glass, Nyman and many more.

Tracklist:

01. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (04:37)
02. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Fountain (02:38)
03. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Solitude Theme (04:31)
04. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Dancing in the Sky (01:13)
05. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Asience-fast Piano (02:35)
06. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Sheltering Sky Theme (05:13)
07. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Solari (04:08)
08. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Gohatto (04:20)
09. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Yamazaki 2002 (03:22)
10. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Ubi (03:34)
11. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Andata (04:44)
12. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Aubade (01:44)
13. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Silk Endroll (05:04)
14. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Koko (04:49)
15. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Mizu no naka no bagatelle (04:23)
16. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Reversing (03:30)
17. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Stepfather (02:31)
18. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Shining Boy & Little Randy (05:54)
19. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Litany (05:32)
20. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Last Emperor, Version 1 (04:52)
21. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Last Emperor, Version 2 (05:44)
22. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Seven Samurai – Ending Theme (05:40)
23. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – High Heels Main Theme (04:05)
24. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – M.A.Y. For Mr Lawrence – In the Backyard (05:15)
25. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Zero Landmine (05:47)
26. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Revenant- Main Theme (02:04)
27. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Tibetan Dance (04:30)
28. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Behind the Mask (03:24)
29. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Blu (06:32)
30. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Rain (04:14)
31. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Land Song-Music for Artelligent City (05:14)
32. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Dear Liz (04:02)
33. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Thousand Knives (06:02)
34. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – 1919 (06:28)
35. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Batavia (01:04)
36. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Germination (02:30)
37. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – A Hearty Breakfast (01:26)
38. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Before the War (02:02)
39. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Seed and The Sower (05:22)
40. Jeroen van Veen & Sandra van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – A Brief Encounter (04:06)
41. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Ride Ride Ride (02:03)
42. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Fight (01:37)
43. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Dismissed, Assembly (02:47)
44. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Beyond Reason (01:23)
45. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Sowing the Seed (01:51)
46. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Last Regrets (02:01)
47. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – The Seed (01:27)
48. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Tong Poo (05:40)
49. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Happy End (07:43)
50. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Kai Koh (05:38)
51. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Gohatto (03:53)
52. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Dear Liz (04:10)
53. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Castalia (05:21)
54. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Amore (05:41)
55. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Lost Child (04:44)
56. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Opus (05:04)
57. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Sonatine (04:02)
58. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Intermezzo (04:42)
59. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Lorentz and Watson (03:40)
60. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Choral No. For Mr Lawrence – 1 (02:32)
61. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Choral No. For Mr Lawrence – 2 (02:23)
62. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Bachata (07:42)
63. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Chanson (03:03)
64. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Distant Echo (06:23)
65. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Aqua (04:30)
66. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Energy Flow (04:28)
67. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Put Your Hands Up (04:58)
68. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Railroad Man (04:09)
69. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Eight Themes of Eight (03:01)
70. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – I have to Buy a New Pair of Shoes (02:22)
71. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – On the Boat (04:27)
72. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Tamago 2004 (02:23)
73. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Before Long (01:39)
74. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Loneliness (01:54)
75. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Perspective (05:31)
76. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Ex Jazz (02:03)
77. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Parolibre (04:55)
78. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Sweet Revenge (03:55)
79. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Tatorso (02:56)
80. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Tango (05:05)
81. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Bibo no Aozora (06:41)
82. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Floating Along (05:48)
83. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – A Flower is not a Flower (06:13)
84. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – Sayonara (03:20)
85. Jeroen van Veen – For Mr Lawrence – High Tide (02:43)