Ryuichi Sakamoto has collaborated with French musician Alva Noto and The National's Bryce Dessner on the soundtrack to Alejandro Iñárritu's new film, The Revenant.
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There’s a Youtube clip of Ryuichi Sakamoto, dressed in black hunched over a piano playing the piece of music he is most famous for – “Forbidden Colours”, from the film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. It is, I guess, the idea of Sakamoto we’re most familiar with – the artist, his instrument of choice, the music he is playing both delicate and fluid.
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