Yellow Magic Orchestra
Ryuichi Sakamoto's Estate Details Posthumous Album 'Opus'
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2024
A "final, private piano concert" from Ryuichi Sakamoto will be released as a new posthumous album.Today, the estate of the late composer an...
Ryuichi Sakamoto Dies at 71
PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto has died. He was 71. A tweet from the musician's official Twitter account reveals that he died on March 28. A statement f...
Yellow Magic Orchestra Drummer Yukihiro Takahashi Dies at 70
PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2023
Yukihiro Takahashi — the influential Japanese musician best known as the co-founding drummer and vocalist of Yellow Magic Orchestra — has d...
Thundercat Covers Ryuichi Sakamoko for New Tribute Album 'To the Moon and Back'
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
A new Ryuichi Sakamoto tribute album will pay homage to the Japanese composer and Yellow Magic Orchestra founding member. Called To the Moo...
Metafive Cancel New Album Release in the Wake of Cornelius Bullying Controversy
PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2021
The fallout surrounding Cornelius' bullying controversy has reached new heights today, as the upcoming album by his Metafive supergroup has...
Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1981 LP 'Hidari Ude No Yume' Finally Getting Wide Release
PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2020
A rare album from Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto will finally makes its way across the ocean, as 1981's Hidari Ude No Yume (which trans...
YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi Undergoes Surgery to Remove Brain Tumour
PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2020
Yellow Magic Orchestra legend Yukihiro Takahashi has revealed he underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour earlier this month. Via a writ...
Akiko Yano
Gohan Ga Dekitayo
PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2020
Originally released in 1980, Akiko Yano's double LP Gohan Ga Dekitayo comes from a busy period of her career: she was actively collaboratin...
