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Sweet Revenge (Ryuichi Sakamoto Album)
''Sweet Revenge'' is a 1994 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The Japanese and international releases have different track listings, with the international pressing featuring (uncredited) re-mixes of half of the songs. A re-recording of "Psychedelic Afternoon", featuring original lyricist David Byrne on vocals and sporting modified lyrics, was released in 2013 as a way to raise money and awareness for children who survived the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. An animated music video was released concurrently with the new version. Track listing Personnel * Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, programming, percussion, vocals * J-Me – vocals * Vivian Sessoms – vocals * Holly Johnson – vocals * Latasha Natasha Diggs – vocals * Paul Alexander – vocals * Arto Lindsay – vocals * Roddy Frame – vocals * Miki Imai – vocals * Towa Tei – programming * Satoshi Tomiie – programming and arrangements * Cyro Baptista – percussion * Amadeo Pace – guitar * David Nadien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album '' Thousand Knives'' in 1978. Two years later, he released the album ''B-2 Unit''. It included the track "Riot in Lagos", which was significant in the development of electro and hip hop music. He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love & Hate (song)
"Love and Hate" is a song by Ryuichi Sakamoto featuring the former Frankie Goes to Hollywood singer Holly Johnson on vocals. Released as a single in 1994 from Sakamoto's album '' Sweet Revenge'', the song was written by Sakamoto and Johnson. It reached No. 97 in the UK charts. A music video was filmed to promote the single. Johnson came to work with Sakamoto due to his links with Frankie Goes to Hollywood's manager, Bob Johnson, who, at the time, was the manager of Roddy Frame, a friend of Sakamoto. Critical reception Upon its release as a single, Simon Williams of ''NME'' wrote, "Sadly, Ryuichi — Mr 'Merry Christmas' himself — is unable to help. Firstly because this is a woeful wander wherein guest howler Holly Johnson makes out like Vincent Price. Secondly because this is a song about all the really really bad things in the world, a theme which fits none too easily with the sleeve shots of Ryuichi dressed as Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Axel Bauer and Les Rita Mitsouko. Mondino has also photographed the covers and album packaging for the Marianne Faithfull albums '' Before The Poison'' (2005) and '' Easy Come, Easy Go'' (2008), Shakespear's Sister's ''Hormonally Yours'' (1992), Alain Bashung's ''Osez Joséphine'' (1991), '' Chatterton'' (1994), Mylène Farmer's ''Désobéissance'' (2018), J.'s ''We Are the Majority'' (1992) and Prince's ''Lovesexy'' (1988). He also designed the titles for the Anglo-French TV music show '' Rapido''. The video for Don Henley's " The Boys of Summer", which Mondino directed, for the "Boys of Summer" video. swept the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Takano
(born December 14, 1964) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, music arranger, guitarist and producer. In the end of 1980s and early 1990s, he recorded some successful records which were produced by Todd Rundgren. He has contributed to the works of many musicians, such as Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto inf .... Discography Studio albums Compilations Live album External links Artist profile by Official Site "HAAS" Hiroshi Takano's MySpace Official Site for Natalie Wise(Japanese) Official Site for Ganga Zumba(Japanese) 1964 births Japanese composers Japanese male composers Japanese male musicians Japanese male singer-songwriters Japanese singer-songwriters Japanese music arrangers Living people Musicians from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romero Lubambo
Romero Lubambo (born 1955) is a Brazilian jazz guitarist. Career He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He grew up with American jazz and classical music in the house because his uncle played guitar, lived next door, and visited frequently. Lubambo tried classical piano for two years but quit. At thirteen, he picked up the guitar and taught himself how to play because there was no one else around to do it. The following year he joined a band and performed professionally for the first time. From 1972 to 1977, he attended the Villa-Lobos School of Music to study classical guitar. He went to college and got a degree in engineering in 1980, but he pursued music instead. After moving to the U.S. in 1985, he worked with singer Astrud Gilberto. During the next year, he met Herbie Mann, who Lubambo considered "my American father, my mentor for life." He formed Trio da Paz with Duduka da Fonseca and Nilson Matta and has recorded and toured with them. He tours extensively with Dianne Reev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nadien
David Nadien (March 12, 1926 – May 28, 2014) was an American virtuoso violinist and violin teacher. He was the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic from 1966 to 1970. His playing style, characterized by fast vibrato, audible shifting noises, and superb bow control, has been compared to that of Jascha Heifetz, who is considered by some to be the greatest violinist of all time.Gary Lemco (November 18, 2008)''David Nadien: The Legendary Violinist'', review. ''Audiophile Audition''. Accessed June 2014. Life David Nadien was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 12, 1926, the son of Russian-Jewish father George Nadien and Dutch-Jewish mother Bertha Zwart. His father was a local boxer who went by the last name "Vanderbilt." He started learning violin with his father, then entered the Mannes School of Music. He also studied at the Juilliard School. His teachers included Adolfo Betti, Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Adolf Busch and Ivan Galamian. When he was 18, he was drafted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of Kazu Makino (vocals, keys/rhythm guitar) and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace (drums/keys and lead guitar/bass/keys/vocals, respectively) that formed in New York City in 1993. The band's earliest albums were noted for their noise rock influences, though their sound evolved by the early 2000s with the releases of '' Misery is a Butterfly'' (2004) and '' 23'' (2007), which both incorporated elements of dream pop, shoegaze and other genres. They have released nine regular studio albums and have toured internationally. Career Amedeo and Simone Pace were born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Montreal ( Saint-Léonard), but later moved to Boston to study jazz. After earning Bachelor's degrees, they entered the New York City underground music scene. Blonde Redhead formed in New York in 1993 after Amedeo and Simone met Kazu Makino, an art student at the time, by chance at a local Italian restaurant. The band named themse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyro Baptista
Cyro Baptista (born December 23, 1950) is a Brazilian percussionist in jazz and world music. He creates many of the percussion instruments he plays. Career Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. During the 1980s, he worked on films with John Zorn and appeared on Zorn's albums in the 1990s. Also in the '90s, he appeared on albums by Marisa Monte, Holly Cole, and Cassandra Wilson. In 1997 he released his first solo album, ''Vira Loucos'', with cover versions of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos. The album was recorded with Marc Ribot and Nana Vasconcelos and released by Avant, a label owned by Zorn. He was a member of Zorn's band Dreamers. He recorded with pianist Herbie Hancock on his album ''Possibilities''. He recorded and performed worldwide with Hancock's Grammy award-winning ''Gershwin's World''. He toured with Yo-Yo Ma's Brazil Project and appeared on the ''Obrigado Brazil'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoshi Tomiie
is a Japanese DJ, record producer and musician. Biography A lifelong student of jazz and classical piano, Satoshi had an influential impact from his very first record. His debut single ‘Tears’, which he co-produced in 1989 with Chicago's ‘Godfather of House’ Frankie Knuckles, was an instant club hit. In the early 1990s, he toured and played keyboard for Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame). His reputation for crafting meticulous club rhythms led to him remixing some of pop's biggest names including U2, Mariah Carey, Photek, Simply Red and David Bowie. At the turn of the millennium, Satoshi introduced a groundbreaking new club sound via 2000's ‘Full Lick’ album. The long-player featured dark twisted electronic rhythms, haunting vocals, and hypnotic grooves that came to set the benchmark for a new developing house scene. Another source of house music renovation, Satoshi and Hector Romero's record label SAW Recordings Saw Recordings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towa Tei
is a Japanese artist, record producer, and DJ. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Towa debuted as a member of Deee-Lite, from the US label Elektra Records in 1990 and shot to fame via their international hit single, "Groove Is In the Heart". He made his solo debut with the album ''Future Listening!'' in 1994. He has since relocated back from New York to rural Nagano prefecture in Japan. Towa's second studio album, ''Sound Museum'' (1997), became his highest charting effort at number 17 on the ''Oricon'' charts. Its single, "GBI (German Bold Italic)" featuring Kylie Minogue and Haruomi Hosono, reached number 50 and 63 in Australia and the United Kingdom, respectively. He saw continued success with 1999's ''Last Century Modern'' as its fourth single, " Let Me Know" featuring Chara, became one of his best known songs. His concept party, "Hotel H", started in 2009 as a social spot for music industry people in Tokyo. Biography Towa is a third-generation Korean-Japanese. Towa began making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Imai (singer)
is a female Japanese pop singer and actress. She won the award for best newcomer at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Inuji ni Seshi Mono''. Personal life She married guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei on 6 June 1999. The couple's daughter was born on 26 July 2002. The family resides in London. Discography Singles * "Tasogare no Monorogu" (21 May 1986) * "Yasei no Kaze" (1 July 1987) * "Shizuka ni Kita Sorichudo" (5 March 1988) * "Kanojo to Tip on Duo" (17 August 1988) * "Boogie-Woogie Lonesome High-Heel" (17 May 1989) * "Hitomi ga Hohoemukara" (8 November 1989) * "Piece of My Wish" (7 November 1991) * "Blue Moon Blue" (6 November 1992) * "Bluebird" (28 July 1993) * "Miss You" (18 July 1994) * "Ruby" (12 July 1995) * "Pride" (4 November 1996) * "Drive ni Tsuretette" (18 June 1997) * "Watashi wa Anata no Sora ni Naritai/Shiro no Warutsu" (21 November 1997) * "flowers" (28 October 1998) * "Kōri no Yōni Hohoende/Smiling Girls" (13 January 1999) * "Sleep My Dear" (19 May 1999) * "Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He was a member of the pioneering 1970s no wave group DNA, which featured on the 1978 compilation ''No New York''. In the 1980s, he formed the group Ambitious Lovers. He also performed with The Golden Palominos and The Lounge Lizards. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of unconventional extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey". Music Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he grew up in Brazil. In the late 1970s, he helped form the no wave band DNA with Ikue Mori and Robin Crutchfield, although Tim Wright of Pere Ubu soon replaced Crutchfield. In 1978, DNA was featured on the four-band sampler ''No New York'' (produced by Brian Eno) In the early 1980s, Lindsay performed on early albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
