Free delivery on many items.   Same-day despatch, no-question returns.   Authorised dealers - full technical support.   Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Ryuichi SAKAMOTO Hidari Ude No Yume (Japanese Edition) (reissue)(LP with obi-strip) Wewantsounds

Cat: WWSLP 34. Rel: 16 Nov 20
Experimental/Electronic

Side 1 - Track 1. Boku No Kakera Side 1 - Track 2. Saru To Yuki To Gomi No Kodomo Side 1 - Track 3. Kacha Kucha Nee Side 1 - Track 4. The Garden Of Poppies Side 1 - Track 5. Relache Side 2 - Track 1. Tell 'Em To Me Side 2 - Track 2. Living In The Dark Side 2 - Track 3. Slat Dance Side 2 - Track 4. Venezia Side 2 - Track 5. Saru No Ie

Wewantsounds continues to respond to that request with another benchmark reissue following Egyptian musician and composer Ammar El Sherei's Oriental Music. This time taking one of the definitive releases in Ryuichi Sakamoto's extensive oeuvre and making it shiny and new. Or at least giving it a dusting down, not that the contents were ever going to sound anything other than fresh.

Hidari... was such a groundbreaking album at the time because of the pop sensibilities Sakamoto actively looked to root the album in by way of enlisting British producer Robin Scott and American guitarist Adrian Belew in addition to members of his Yellow Magic Orchestra. The result sounds like intoxicating downtempo electronica, jerky elec-house, 1980s fantasy movie soundtracks and Far Eastern percussive exoticism. So apparently a marriage of styles and places that we consider striking today does sound even better 39 years later.