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-Is it like that? Mr. Sakamoto also explained the song.

Sakamoto: I can always do it. Do you want to do it now? The commentary was also lost...
Your favorite Debussy song, "Romance". It's an amazing song. Then, this is the first song of the famous suite by Debussy called "Children's Territory". What I chose here was the one Debussy himself played. A roll piano was made by punching holes in the paper like punch cards, creating a memorable piano. So, I remembered Debussy playing, and there was still a roll of paper, and that's the one that was reproduced. There are labels such as Debussy and Bartok, and it's like MIDI today. Type only performance information on paper. I think it's pretty accurate. I like that the label is played, but it's totally different, how to play it. Debussy is about 10 years older than Label, but the difference in performance over 10 years has changed the style of music and the style of music. After all, Debussy is a person of the 19th century, and when it comes to labels, it changes to the mechanical techno-like playing style of the 20th century. That's very interesting. Nowadays, nobody can play like this, so I play freewheeling, Debussy. That's very interesting.
This Brahms interlude is my favorite song in Brahms. Then, I happened to know that Antonio Carlos Jobim also Daisukidatta this song. I became friends with Jobin's grandson Daniel and told me, "Grandpa, I like this song."
And then the most famous Pierre Boulez guy, classical, modern music. Boulez himself is conducting, but it's a very difficult song...

Next is Steve Reich, as Reiko said. This is a good song, although Pat Metheny plays the guitar and I don't really like playing it. I don't like how to play I'm fluttering.
And with a minimal connection, the Pygmy tribe. This is recording in Europe. This "African Rhythm" album is really good. We had such an event where Pygmy music and modern minimal music were arranged alternately. That live. Planning is good. It seems that I actually brought the Pygmy people. great.
Next time is pygmy connection. There are different races, so even with the same pygmy as "Aka Pygmies" and "Mbuti Pygmies," it feels a little different. Next is the band name called Alarm Will Sound with a minimalistic connection, but this album does all Aphex Twin songs with live instruments. Chamber music. It's a young New York band that mainly plays Aphex Twin songs in a classical style. Quite interesting. Future stock.
Ryoji Ikeda is a minimalist connection. From here, it's suddenly changed and it's tango suddenly. Of the 20s. It's very good. I like old tango recordings, noise. I love old recordings. Noise and sound inside, ghats. So it's a passionate, awesome electronica feeling, because the tango is what you hear behind the noise.
And, with an old nostalgic connection, Van Dyck. My favorite song is "Bee Careful". A genius, a genius, an arrangement that a little ordinary person can't think of. Amazing weirdo. Little known in the United States and popular in Japan. I got it from Warner. For example, if you know who produced Little Feet or who produced Rye Cooder, you know most of them. It's probably a maniac person.
It's not like it's connected, but it's like the prototype of Seoul that people who know this also know. Secular black music derived from the church and the soul that is nowadays, in the middle.
And Nina Simon is connected with black music. I'm not a fan, but I really like this song and it's a great song. I think it's a song from the age of slavery, but the title is also like that. "I wish I could feel free." It's a song that I've never felt free, so I asked, "What is freedom?" But it's a gorgeous gospel game.

Reiko: I'm sad What is the next DNA?

Sakamoto: DNA is an Art Lindsay band. This is my favorite rock band. If you dare call it rock. I'm still a fan of DNA. The art is good, but the Japanese woman named Iku Mori from the drums. Ikue-san is an acquaintance, but he lives in New York and is currently doing noise music on his laptop. It's pretty good. I sometimes meet in Rome, but it's music with a lot of noise.
Then, I changed completely and became a Jobim. "Stone Flower" is one of Jobim's favorite albums.

Reiko: Wasn't this the one who did it together?

Sakamoto: It was dead, but we recorded it with the guys in Jovin's band. I have great respect. Bill Evans Time Remembered. Bill Evans and Jobim have similar feelings and harmonies. The source of both is Debussy.

Reiko: It sounds like you're listening to a music lecture.

Sakamoto: Evans' favorite song, a very meditative song. Jazz is difficult, but it's not difficult, it's a mellow and beautiful song.
Then, as it is, No. 17 is the label song. It's so similar in feeling that it sounds like a song made by people around the same time. And although Vlad Perlemuter who is playing this is a Polish, he is the most disciple of the label and I copied my music like a clone and played it perfectly. He died a few years ago. A person who perfectly reproduces what I wanted to express the label like this. When I was an elementary school student, I had some records at home, and there was a record of Chopin played by this person, and I liked it and listened to it often.

Reiko: It's wonderful.

Sakamoto: Then suddenly, to John Cage. John Cage is also one of my roots, from John Cage to the destructive Nam Jun Pike. This is a string quartet, very quiet and fantastic, not a destructive system.

Reiko: Can you sleep

Sakamoto: I can definitely sleep. Don't look at the quiet sea. And at the end I don't really tie it, but from John Cage, it's a shamanic spell.

Reiko: Do you like the tribe?

Sakamoto: I like. It is a Siberian Yakut tribe of the Mongoloid family. Normally, we think that Russians are white and attacked from around Europe and the Black Sea, but in East Russia originally Mongoloid lived. There were a tremendous number of about 5 million, but the Russians killed them all, and the number had dropped to about 20,000. There, the surviving Mongoloids are the Yakut tribe. Shamanism is a religion that we learned about among the Siberian Mongoloids. Shamanism is like the octopus of Osorezan, and it's like telling with a possession. The shaman is coming down. Is it like that?

Reiko: Hmmm.

-What kind of person do you want Reiko to listen to in what situation?

Reiko: If you like it and you understand it, listen to it. The situation is alone, for example, when you want to relax, when you are on a train, or when you are on an airplane. There are many one-person songs. I want you to listen and be addicted. It's a song I was listening to when I couldn't drink, so that kind of feeling comes to my mind. No children? is not it.

-You don't have songs from the last 20 years.

Reiko: I agree……

Interviewer: Masanobu Sugatsuki

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