Ryuichi Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of the first musicians to incorporate electronic production into popular songcraft, has died at the age of 71. Sakamoto died on ...

Mr. Sakamoto, whose work with Yellow Magic Orchestra influenced electronic music, composed scores for “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant.” By William Robin Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan ...

He truly was with music until the very end. The 33-track playlist features some of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s favourite music, including works from Back, Debussy and Ravel, and opens with an 11-minute ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto is hunched over a grand piano, wearing a black suit and his customary tortoiseshell eyeglasses. The room around him is drenched in darkness, with no other textures visible but the ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the influential electronic music composer and member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra who won an Oscar for the score for “The Last Emperor” and composed the haunting score for ...

On the eve of his 2023 death, composer and performer Ryuichi Sakamoto performed 20 selections from his vast body of work. Working from a set list personally selected by Sakamoto from his ...

Join Nick Luscombe in Tokyo as he contemplates the life and legacy of Ryuichi Sakamoto, a year on from the composer's passing. Show more Ryuichi Sakamoto, probably the most famous and successful ...

The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto — who wrote the haunting score to “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” and won an Oscar for 1987’s “The Last Emperor” — has died aged 71. His ...