The estate of Ryuichi Sakamoto has removed the late Japanese composer's music from streaming services in Israel as part of an ...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, an eclectic Japanese composer who was an early leader in electronic pop music and became an acclaimed writer of film scores that blended Eastern and Western cultural influences, has ...

NEW YORK — Ryuichi Sakamoto is not an easy man to categorize, and he seems to like it that way. As he sees it, he’s just following his instincts as a musician, paying attention to the sounds and ideas ...

The estate of legendary Japanese composer joins the likes of Björk, Massive Attack and Fontaines D.C. in the boycott ...

Pioneering Japanese composer, producer, and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was among the first to bring electronic production into popular music consciousness, has died at 71. "He lived with music ...

TOKYO (AP) — Recorded and filmed as he was dying of cancer, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus” — the Japanese film composer’s posthumous album and documentary of the same name — is clearly meant to be his ...

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 March ...

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 “Merry ...

Music and noise, art and politics, sound and vision: Composer, musician, occasional actor and environmental activist Ryuichi Sakamoto says we’re living in a world in dire need of reconciliation.

TOKYO — Recorded and filmed as he was dying of cancer, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus” — the Japanese film composer's posthumous album and documentary of the same name — is clearly meant to be his final ...

Sakamoto, a trailblazing composer and producer who was one of the first musicians to incorporate electronic production into popular songcraft, died last month after a multi-year battle with cancer.