Out Of Noise

Limited A5 book and full-artwork version
The album that the tour is in support of, Out of Noise, Sakamoto’s first full-length solo work in 5 years, is aptly diverse and prescient, yet austere and sullen. The title is a mystery as the album seems neither carved out of noise nor does it seem to be devoid of it. Its technology is obscured by the subtlety of its implementation amidst traditional instrumentation and field recordings
The only exception to this rule is the blissful droning of the wall-of-sound “Firewater”, which show Sakamoto learning a few tricks from his recent Austrian laptop composer partner Fennesz. Unlike many aging musicians who grow out of touch and out of focus with modern music, Sakamoto’s latest is vibrantly in touch with the sounds of now, particularly the interstition between 20th or 21st century classical and the various post-Eno explorations of non-beat oriented atmospherics