Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP to music and to the

to music and to the future

Includes the original Switched On compilation LP released in 1992

Neither is the mission to

and ‘political non-starters’

recorded in Scotland and New York the bands style has matured and developed

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP to music and to theRyuichi Sakamoto's first solo album appeared before he formed Yellow Magic Orchestra in late 1978, after the young keyboardist had earned his M. A. in music from Tokyo University. Six long instrumentals make up this album, but apart from a taste for Asian sounding synth lines, they hint at very little of what was to come in YMO. "Thousand Knives" is a long disco lite jazzy workout with a guitar solo by Kazumi Watanabe (who would later join YMO on tour