Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto / Ensemble Modern's lyrics & chords

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto(坂本龍一) is a collaboration project between the German minimal artist Carsten Nicolai and the famous Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. In this co-operation two different generations meet and share the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. Alva Noto processes the sounds from Sakamoto's piano, creating a mixture of solo piano and glitchy micro electronic sounds. Noto and Sakamoto have 6 releases to date, of which every one has been released on the Nicolai co-owned Raster...read more