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BTTB | ||||
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Released | February 2, 1999 (Japan) January 2000 (Europe) February 8, 2000 (US) | |||
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Genre | Classical | |||
Length | 63:04 | |||
Label | Sony Classical | |||
Producer | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |||
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
BTTB is a 1999 piano solo and duet album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album title is an acronym for 'Back To The Basics'. Two separate versions of the album were pressed, for Japanese and international markets. The International version opens with the three songs off of the ウラBTTBmaxi single released in Japan as a promotional tool, while replacing a few pieces elsewhere in the album. The maxi single peaked at number four on the Japanese singles chart.[2]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Japanese version | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'Opus' | 4:27 |
2. | 'Sonatine' | 3:38 |
3. | 'Intermezzo' | 3:44 |
4. | 'Lorenz and Watson' | 3:57 |
5. | 'Choral No. 1' | 2:27 |
6. | 'Choral No. 2' | 2:05 |
7. | 'Do Bacteria Sleep?' | 4:18 |
8. | 'Bachata' | 8:14 |
9. | 'Chanson' | 2:23 |
10. | 'Distant Echo' | 5:53 |
11. | 'Prelude' | 4:08 |
12. | 'Sonata' | 3:31 |
13. | 'Uetax' | 0:26 |
14. | 'Aqua' | 4:29 |
15. | 'Snake Eyes' | 6:07 |
16. | 'Tong Poo' | 5:03 |
International version | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | 'Energy Flow' | 4:36 |
2. | 'Put Your Hands Up' | 4:51 |
3. | 'Railroad Man' | 4:42 |
4. | 'Opus' | 4:27 |
5. | 'Sonatine' | 3:38 |
6. | 'Intermezzo' | 3:44 |
7. | 'Lorenz and Watson' | 3:57 |
8. | 'Choral No. 1' | 2:27 |
9. | 'Choral No. 2' | 2:05 |
10. | 'Bachata' | 8:14 |
11. | 'Chanson' | 2:23 |
12. | 'Prelude' | 4:08 |
13. | 'Uetax' | 0:26 |
14. | 'Aqua' | 4:29 |
15. | 'Tong Poo' | 5:03 |
16. | 'Reversing' | 3:58 |
Personnel[edit]
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano, production
- Fernando Aponte – engineer
- Naoto Shibuya – engineer, mixing
- Masaki Sekiguchi – assistant engineer
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Hideki Nakajima – direction
References[edit]
- ^Vallier, John. BTTB at AllMusic
- ^'1999年 シングル年間TOP100'. Yahoo! GeoCities (in Japanese). Yahoo!. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
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1996 | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 4, 1996 | |||
Studio | Right Track Studios, New York | |||
Genre | Chamber music | |||
Length | 52:19 | |||
Label | Güt, For Life Milan | |||
Producer | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |||
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology | ||||
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1996 is a 1996 album by Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. It contains a selection of Sakamoto's most popular compositions plus two new compositions, all arranged for a standard piano trio. The arrangement of 'Bibo no Aozora' that appears on this album has appeared in several film and television projects; one notable example is the film Babel, whose soundtrack features both the 1996 version and the /04 version of the song.
Track listing[edit]
No. | Title | Originally from | Length |
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1. | 'A Day a Gorilla Gives a Banana' (ゴリラがバナナをくれる日Gorira ga Banana wo Kureru Hi) | Previously unreleased | 1:40 |
2. | 'Rain' | The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987 | 3:38 |
3. | 'Bibo no Aozora' (美貌の青空, Beauty of a Blue Sky) | Smoochy, 1995 | 6:36 |
4. | 'The Last Emperor' | The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987 | 5:53 |
5. | '1919' | Previously unreleased | 6:22 |
6. | 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (soundtrack), 1983 | 4:46 |
7. | 'M.A.Y. in The Backyard' | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984 | 3:29 |
8. | 'The Sheltering Sky' | The Sheltering Sky (soundtrack), 1990 | 4:33 |
9. | 'A Tribute to N.J.P.' | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984 | 3:17 |
10. | 'High Heels (Main Theme)' | High Heels (soundtrack), 1991 | 3:18 |
11. | 'Aoneko no Torso' (青猫のトルソ, Torso of a Blue Cat) | Smoochy, 1995 | 2:32 |
12. | 'The Wuthering Heights' | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (soundtrack), 1992 | 5:20 |
13. | 'Parolibre' | Futurista, 1986 | 3:22 |
14. | 'Acceptance (End Credit) -Little Buddha-' | Little Buddha (soundtrack), 1994 | 7:30 |
15. | 'Before Long' | Neo Geo, 1991 | 3:02 |
16. | 'Bring them home' | Smoochy, 1995 | 3:24 |
Personnel[edit]
Performers
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano
- Jaques Morelenbaum – cello
- Everton Nelson – violin (tracks 1, 3 – 7, 9 – 12 & 14)
- David Nadien – violin (tracks 2 & 8)
- Barry Finclair – violin (tracks 13 & 15)
Technical
- Fernando Aponte – engineer, mixing
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Joe Lizzi & Jason Goldstein – assistant engineers
- Hideki Nakajima – art direction, design
- Yoshinori Ochiai – design
- Kazunari Tajima – photography
- Clare de Graw & David Rubinson – production managers[1]
References[edit]
- ^'Ryuichi Sakamoto discografia'. TokyoNoise.Net. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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