Ryuichi Sakamoto discography
Appearance
Ryuichi Sakamoto discography | |
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![]() Sakamoto and Alva Noto at a press conference | |
Studio albums | 19 |
Live albums | 6 |
Compilation albums | 6 |
Music videos | 5 |
EPs | 5 |
Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto released 19 solo studio albums, six live albums, several compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), singles, and soundtracks. Sakamoto has also released many video albums and music videos. Several of Sakamoto's albums exist in two versions: the original Japanese version and the international version, which may contain different track listings.
Albums
Solo studio albums
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] | ||||||||||
1978 | Thousand Knives
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1980 | B-2 Unit
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19 | ||||||||
1981 | Left-Handed Dream
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20 | ||||||||
1984 | Ongaku Zukan (Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia)[A]
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5 | ||||||||
1985 | Esperanto
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9 | ||||||||
1986 | Futurista
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5 | ||||||||
1987 | Neo Geo
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8 | ||||||||
1989 | Beauty
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14 | ||||||||
1991 | Heartbeat
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6 | ||||||||
1994 | Sweet Revenge
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7 | ||||||||
1995 | Smoochy
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28 | ||||||||
1996 | 1996
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– | ||||||||
1997 | Discord
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– | ||||||||
1998 | BTTB
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26 | ||||||||
2002 | Comica
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– | ||||||||
2002 | Elephantism
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– | ||||||||
2004 | Chasm
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19 | ||||||||
2009 | Out of Noise
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16 | ||||||||
2012 | Three
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37 | ||||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
- A^ The 1986 international release was titled Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia.
Live albums
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] |
US Classical [3] | |||||||||
1986 | Media Bahn Live
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1988 | Playing the Orchestra
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– | – | |||||||
1999 | Cinemage
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– | – | |||||||
2000 | Audio Life
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2001 | In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London
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2009 | Playing the Piano
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41 | 10 | |||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Compilation albums
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||
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JP [1][2] | ||||||||||
1978 | Tokyo Joe (with Kazumi Watanabe)
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1983 | Coda
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38 | ||||||||
1994 | Soundbytes
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– | ||||||||
2002 | Works I – CM
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– | ||||||||
2003 | Moto.tronic
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– | ||||||||
2004 | /04
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– | ||||||||
2005 | /05
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28 | ||||||||
2006 | Bricolages
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81 | ||||||||
2015 | Year Book 2005–2014
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46 | ||||||||
2016 | Year Book 1971-1979
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77 | ||||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Extended plays and mini-albums
Year | Album details | Ref. |
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1997 | Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995
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[4] |
2001 | Zero Landmine (as part of N.M.L. No More Landmines)
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[5] |
Video albums
Year | Video details | Ref. |
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1985 | TV War (with Radical TV)
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1986 | Adelic Penguins
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[6] |
2006 | Insen Live (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto)
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2008 | LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible… (as Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani)
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2015 | Playing the Orchestra 2014
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2015 | Trio Tour 2012 Japan
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Music videos
Year | Title | Director(s) | Ref. |
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1983 | "Forbidden Colours" (with David Sylvian) | ||
1985 | "Field Work" (with Thomas Dolby) | Thomas Dolby | [7] |
1987 | "Risky" (feat. Iggy Pop) | Meiert Avis | [8] |
1990 | "You Do Me" (feat. Jill Jones) | ||
1992 | "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II)" (feat. David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez) | Kevin Westenberg | [9] |
2003 | "Trioon I" (as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto) | Karl Kliem | [10] |
2013 | "Psychedelic Afternoon" | Uruma Delvi | [11] |
2016 | "The Revenant Main Theme (Alva Noto Edit)" | Alejandro González Iñárritu | [12] |
Soundtrack albums
Year | Album | Notes | Ref. |
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1983 | Daijōbu, My Friend | ||
1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | ||
1986 | The Adventures of Chatran: Original Soundtrack | ||
1987 | Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise | ||
1987 | The Last Emperor | ||
1989 | Fantasy of Light and Life | ||
1989 | Tengai Makyou: Ziria | [13] | |
1990 | The Sheltering Sky | ||
1990 | The Handmaid's Tale | ||
1992 | High Heels | ||
1992 | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights | ||
1992 | Tokyo Decadence | ||
1993 | Peachboy | ||
1993 | Wild Palms | ||
1994 | Little Buddha | ||
1997 | The Other Side Of Love | Soundtrack for television series Stalker: Nigekirenu Ai | |
1998 | Snake Eyes | ||
1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | ||
1999 | Gohatto | ||
1999 | Poppoya | Composed the main theme | |
2000 | L.O.L.: Lack of Love | Dreamcast video game for which Sakamoto was also the scenario writer | |
2002 | Femme Fatale | ||
2002 | Century of Reform | ||
2002 | Derrida | Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002) | |
2002 | Alexei and the Spring | Certain tracks from the film were released on the compilation album Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002) | |
2004 | Seven Samurai 20XX | PlayStation 2 video game | |
2005 | Shining Boy & Little Randy | ||
2005 | Tony Takitani | ||
2006 | Dawn of Mana | PlayStation 2 video game | |
2007 | Silk | ||
2008 | Indigo | Short film | |
2009 | Women Without Men | ||
2011 | Dhobi Ghat | ||
2011 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | ||
2012 | I Have to Buy New Shoes | With Kotringo | [14] |
2015 | Living With My Mother | Album released in 2016 under the alternative English title Nagasaki: Memories of My Son. | [15] |
2015 | The Revenant | With Alva Noto and additional music by Bryce Dessner | [16] |
Other album appearances
Collaborations
- With Toshiyuki Tsuchitori
- Disappointment-Hateruma (1975)
- With The Kakutougi Session
- Summer Nerves (1979)
- With Danceries
- The End of Asia (1982)
- With Robin Scott
- The Arrangement (1982, originally released as an EP and later expended into a full album with albumless singles)
- With Thomas Dolby
- "Field Work" (1985, originally released as a non-album single)
- With Yōsuke Yamashita and Bill Laswell
- Asian Games (1993, live LP)
- With David Sylvian
- World Citizen (2003, EP)
- With Morelenbaum²
- Casa (2001)
- A Day in New York (2003)
- With Carsten Nicolai, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto
- With Christopher Willits, as Willits + Sakamoto
- Ocean Fire (2007)
- Ancient Future (2012)
- With Fennesz
- Sala Santa Cecilia (2005, live EP)
- Cendre (2007)
- Flumina (2011)
- With Taylor Deupree and Illuha, as Taylor Deupree / Illuha / Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Perpetual (2015)
- With Taeko Onuki
- UTAU (2010)
Soundtracks
Year | Song(s) | Album | Notes | Ref. |
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1989 | "Laserman" | Black Rain soundtrack | [17] | |
1992 | "El Mar Mediterrani" | El Mar Mediterrani | Composition for 1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony officially released on the 1997 mini-album of the same name | [18] |
1998 | "Dreamcast Startup" | Startup sound for the Dreamcast video game console | [19] | |
2003 | "Chinsagu No Hana" | Japanese Story soundtrack | An alternate mix by Elizabeth Drake originally from Beauty | [20] |
2006 | "Bibo No Aozora", "Only Love Can Conquer Hate", "World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed)" | Babel soundtrack | Alternate mixes originally from 1996 and Chasm | [21] |
Guest appearances
Year | Album | Artist | Details | Ref. |
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1979 | Intimate | Keizo Inoue | Piano, synthesizer | |
Kylyn | Kazumi Watanabe | Co-producer, keyboards | ||
1980 | Gentlemen Take Polaroids | Japan | Co-writer ("Taking Islands in Africa") | |
1983 | Rose | Mari Iijima | Producer | |
1984 | Brilliant Trees | David Sylvian | Guest piano/synthesizers on three tracks | |
1985 | Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities | David Sylvian | Guest piano and strings on one track | |
Memory Theatre | Ayuo Takahashi | Guest musician | ||
1986 | Hope in a Darkened Heart | Virginia Astley | Producer | |
Venus Tanjō | Yukiko Okada | Co-writer ("Wonder Trip Lover", "Kuchibiru Network", "Nemurenu Yoru no AQUARIUS") | ||
Album | Public Image Ltd | Synthesizer ("Rise", "Fishing", "Bags", "Ease") | ||
1987 | Secrets of the Beehive | David Sylvian | Arrangement, organ, synthesizer, piano | |
1989 | Safety in Numbers | David van Tieghem | Keyboards | |
1991 | Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses | Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses | Piano, backing vocals | |
1992 | Sahara Blue | Hector Zazou | Piano ("Ophelie", "Hapolot Kenym", "Harar et les Gallas") | |
1993 | Dreamland | Aztec Camera | Co-producer | |
1995 | The Geisha Girls Show | Geisha Girls | Producer | |
1996 | O Corpo Sutil | Arto Lindsay | Guest musician | |
Red Hot + Rio | Red Hot Organization | Keyboards ("É Preciso Perdoar (You Must Forgive)") | ||
1999 | Dead Bees on a Cake | David Sylvian | Arrangement, piano, guitar, bansuri, insects | |
2000 | Everything and Nothing | David Sylvian | Arrangement, piano | |
2003 | Strong Currents | Hector Zazou | Piano | |
2004 | Astromantic | M-Flo | Guest musician ("I Wanna Be Down") | |
Cinema | Rodrigo Leão | Guest musician | ||
2005 | Snow Borne Sorrow | Nine Horses | Piano ("Atom and Cell", "Snow Borne Sorrow") | |
2006 | Yellow Fever! | Senor Coconut | Guest musician | |
2011 | Heligoland (Extended Edition) | Massive Attack | Co-remixer ("Fatalism") | |
2011 | Forgetfulness | Natalie Beridze TBA | Co-writer ("Blue Shadow") |
References
- ^ a b c オリコンチャートブック〈LP編(昭和45年‐平成1年). Minato, Tokyo: Oricon Books. 1990. ISBN 4871310256.
- ^ a b c "坂本龍". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Classical Albums Chart History". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
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