{"id":1155,"date":"2026-06-09T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/ryuichi-sakamoto-autobiography-music-sets-you-free-a-memoir-announced\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:41:07","slug":"ryuichi-sakamoto-autobiography-music-sets-you-free-a-memoir-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/ryuichi-sakamoto-autobiography-music-sets-you-free-a-memoir-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuichi Sakamoto autobiography ‘Music Units You Free: A Memoir’ introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An autobiography from the late legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, titled Music Units You Free: A Memoir, has been introduced right this moment (June 9).<\/p>\n
The memoir from the \u201cgodfather of digital music\u201d shall be launched on September 22 through HarperVia books.<\/p>\n
A press release from publishers HarperVia (an imprint of Harper Collins) described it as \u201cthe whole autobiography from the legendary and fearless musician, composer, and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto, in an excellent translation from the Japanese by Sam Bett and with the total help and collaboration of Sakamoto\u2019s property and administration staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
You’ll be able to pre-order the memoir right here.<\/p>\n
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A press release from publishing home Harper Collins added: \u201cMusic Units You Free combines the translations of Sakamoto\u2019s two memoirs revealed in Japanese \u2013 Music Makes You Free and How Many Extra Instances Will I Watch the Full Moon Rise? It provides an intimate, contemplative account of his life, from his first encounter with a piano, to his rise as a world pop star, and his later reflections on mortality and music within the wake of a number of most cancers therapies and surgical procedures.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn affirming, superbly written testomony to artwork, life and sound, Music Units You Free is an enduring reward from a real musical nice.<\/p>\n
Sakamoto died in 2023 on the age of 71. After making his identify as a founding member of pioneering digital band Yellow Magic Orchestra, he went on to grow to be a revered composer for movies comparable to The Final Emperor, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Revenant.<\/p>\n
The NME obituary for Sakamoto stated: \u201cOver the a long time, he remained fascinated with the pop track, testing the endurance of its type by totally different strategies of musicianship \u2013 even whereas holding on to his earliest and dearest classical inspirations. Within the wake of his departure, it\u2019s exhausting to think about that there’ll ever be one other like Ryuichi Sakamoto.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the meantime, final yr, the property of Sakamoto\u00a0joined the \u2019No Music For Genocide\u2019 marketing campaign and eliminated his music from streaming in Israel.<\/p>\n
The marketing campaign was a cultural boycott initiative encouraging artists and rights-holders to tug their music from streaming platforms in Israel\u00a0in response to the\u00a0genocide\u00a0in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Huge Assault,\u00a0Fontaines D.C.,\u00a0Amyl & The Sniffers, and\u00a0Kneecap had been among the many first main names to affix the initiative and had been quickly joined by Paramore,\u00a0Rina Sawayama, MIKE,\u00a0Primal Scream,\u00a0Faye Webster,\u00a0Japanese Breakfast,\u00a0Yaeji,\u00a0King Krule,\u00a0MJ Lenderman, Model Pussy,\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0Soccer Mommy\u00a0and\u00a0M\u00d8.<\/p>\n
The property of the legendary Japanese composer additionally joined, writing on Fb: \u201cTo the extent attainable, the Property has eliminated or issued formal requests to labels to take away his music from all DSP (streaming and obtain) providers in Israel. For a lot of his catalog, this has already taken impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Different main names to again \u2018No Music For Genocide\u2019 included Bj\u00f6rk, Lorde, IDLES, MUNA, Paloma Religion, Clairo, Wolf Alice, Lucy Dacus and AURORA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n