{"product_id":"music-sets-you-free","title":"Music Sets You Free","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a founder of the groundbreaking electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto was a pop icon, an avant-garde visionary, a techno innovator, and a proud environmentalist. While his unique brilliance transcended mediums as well as borders, Sakamoto himself was curious about how he came to be the complex phenomenon known as \"Ryuichi Sakamoto”—a journey to answer the question, \"Why do I lead this life?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with candid photos, Music Sets You Free is the incredible chronicle of a life excitingly lived: an intimate, contemplative, and fascinating recounting of his life story as a musical journey, from his first childhood encounter with a piano to his rise as a global pop star and award-winning composer. Sakamoto's boundless curiosity led to myriad experiences: producing catchy yet experimental hits with YMO, starring with David Bowie in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, collaborating with pop geniuses such as David Byrne, Iggy Pop, and Brian Wilson, appearing in a Madonna music video, and even modeling for the Gap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Sakamoto was also a dedicated social activist, avidly protesting nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and restoring a tsunami-damaged piano for his 2017 album async. While the pain of surgeries and treatments left him both emotionally and physically vulnerable in his later life, Sakamoto pushed through the pain to record his final artistic evolution into more avant-garde work after a transformative trip to Greenland during which he witnessed the effects of global warming first-hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic Sets You Free is both a self-reflective testament and thought-provoking meditation on life, mortality, and the enduring power of art. It is the memoir of a visionary whose life and work embodied the aphorism Ars Longa, Vita Brevis (“Art is long, life is short”). The final published work from a creative genius, it is a rare and lasting performance in words that beautifully accompanies Sakamoto's eternal, moving performances in music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Japanese by Sam Bett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ ~ ~ ~ ~ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReviews:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A maestro in the truest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto's very existence has made the world a better place. I'll never stop being grateful for all he has given us.\" - Paul Rudd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Sakamoto was such a genius, and such a delight to collaborate with — and now this unexpected chance to come know him so much more closely. I’d recommend this book to anyone, and most especially to those not yet familiar with his work.\" - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a privilege to see the boy become a man and the student a master!\" - Laurie Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Over the course of this memoir, Sakamoto is honest about what shaped him: protest (hell yes), Debussy (the biggest yes), American imperialism (hell no), technology (it's complicated), nature (big fan), and practicing the piano (no until his final years). His work reached the world because of the felicitous glitch in the market that was Yellow Magic Orchestra; his work continued to spread, in part, because his elegant, stony hand was so well-suited to the movies. This magical book rescues him from the stale terminus of celebrity and delivers him back to the rich soil of the human.\" - Sasha Frere-Jones, writer, musician and music critic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ryuichi Sakamoto did more than just put Japanese pop music on the map; the aural bridges he built between Far East and West transformed the way the world listens to music. This memoir is as poetic and wide-ranging as his career, as catchy and moving as one of his songs. It's required reading both for Sakamoto fans and for scholars of pop music.\" - Matt Alt, author of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Few musicians have transcended genre, medium, and national borders like Ryuichi Sakamoto. At every stage of his career he expanded the horizon of possibility for those in his orbit, from synth pop to film scores to BTS.\" - Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, hosts of Switched on Pop\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54209963983195,"sku":"9780008788865","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_sakamoto_music_sets_you_free.jpg?v=1790595157","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/music-sets-you-free","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}