1996 (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

1996 is a 1996 album by Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. It contains a selection of Sakamoto's most popular compositions plus two new compositions, all arranged for a standard piano trio. The arrangement of "Bibo no Aozora" that appears on this album has appeared in several film and television projects; one notable example is the film Babel, whose soundtrack features both the 1996 version and the /04 version of the song.

Track listing

No.	Title	Originally from	Length
1.	"A Day a Gorilla Gives a Banana" (ゴリラがバナナをくれる日 Gorira ga Banana wo Kureru Hi)	Previously unreleased	1:40
2.	"Rain"	The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987	3:38
3.	"Bibo no Aozora" (美貌の青空, Beauty of a Blue Sky)	Smoochy, 1995	6:36
4.	"The Last Emperor"	The Last Emperor (soundtrack), 1987	5:53
5.	"1919"	Previously unreleased	6:22
6.	"Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (soundtrack), 1983	4:46
7.	"M.A.Y. in The Backyard"	Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984	3:29
8.	"The Sheltering Sky"	The Sheltering Sky (soundtrack), 1990	4:33
9.	"A Tribute to N.J.P."	Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, 1984	3:17
10.	"High Heels (Main Theme)"	High Heels (soundtrack), 1991	3:18
11.	"Aoneko no Toruso" (青猫のトルソ, Torso of a Blue Cat)	Smoochy, 1995	2:32
12.	"The Wuthering Heights"	Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (soundtrack), 1992	5:20
13.	"Parolibre"	Futurista, 1986	3:22
14.	"Acceptance (End Credit) -Little Buddha-"	Little Buddha (soundtrack), 1994	7:30
15.	"Before Long"	Neo Geo, 1991	3:02
16.	"Bring them home"	Smoochy, 1995	3:24

Personnel

Performers

Ryuichi Sakamoto - piano
Jaques Morelenbaum - cello
Everton Nelson - violin (tracks 1, 3 - 7, 9 - 12 & 14)
David Nadien - violin (tracks 2 & 8)
Barry Finclair - violin (tracks 13 & 15)

Technical

Fernando Aponte - engineer, mixing
Ted Jensen - mastering
Joe Lizzi & Jason Goldstein - assistant engineers
Hideki Nakajima - art direction, design
Yoshinori Ochiai - design
Kazunari Tajima - photography
Clare de Graw & David Rubinson - production managers^[1]

References

↑ "Ryuichi Sakamoto discografia". TokyoNoise.Net. Retrieved 2013-05-27.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Studio albums

Solo	Thousand Knives (1978) B-2 Unit (1980) Left-Handed Dream (1981) Ongaku Zukan (1984) Esperanto (1985) Futurista (1986) Neo Geo (1987) Beauty (1989) Heartbeat (1991) Sweet Revenge (1994) Smoochy (1995) 1996 (1996) Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002) Elephantism (2002) Chasm (2004) Out of Noise (2009) Three (2012)

Collaborations	Disappointment-Hateruma (1975) Summer Nerves (1979) The End of Asia (1982) The Arrangement (1982) Casa (2001) Vrioon (2002) A Day in New York (2003) Insen (2005) Ocean Fire (2007) Cendre (2007) utp_ (2008) Summvs (2011) Flumina (2011) Ancient Future (2012) Perpetual (2015)

Extended plays

Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 (1997)
Zero Landmine (2001)
World Citizen (2003)
Sala Santa Cecilia (2005)
Revep (2006)

Live albums

Media Bahn Live (1986)
Playing the Orchestra (1988)
Asian Games (1993)
Cinemage (1999)
Audio Life (2000)
In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London (2001)
Playing the Piano (2009)

Compilations

Tokyo Joe (1978)
Coda (1983)
Soundbytes (1994)
Works I – CM (2002)
Moto.tronic (2003)
/04 (2004)
/05 (2005)
Bricolages (2006)
Year Book 2005–2014 (2015)
Year Book 1971-1979 (2016)

Soundtracks

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Tacones lejanos (High Heels) (1991)
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Wild Palms (1993)
Little Buddha (1993)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Gohatto (1999)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Tony Takitani (2004)
The Revenant (2015)

Songs

Filmography

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
"Rain" (1993)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Neo the Office Chuckler (2004)
Freeter, Ie wo Kau (2010)
Hungry! (2012)
Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012)

Related artists

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