What Sakamoto emphasizes in his understated way is how to find the magic in dissonance and harmony. The tracks on async are more often gentle sighs of relief suffused with a reawakened wonderment at the beauty of simple sounds created by man made instruments and the natural world. But unlike other expressions of mortality like David Bowie’s Blackstar or Touché Amore’s Stage Four, Sakamoto isn’t raging against the dying of the light. While he’s in complete remission now, the experience of that prognosis and the possibility of not surviving it naturally shades every moment of this blindingly great record.
Async, the 16th studio album from Ryuichi Sakamoto, was written and conceived in the wake of the Japanese composer/songwriter’s diagnosis and treatment for throat cancer.
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