Ryuichi Sakamoto - EsperantoEsperanto originally came out in 1985 and was Ryuichi Sakamoto's sixth solo album. Coming after his stint with the influential Yellow Magic Orchestra, and also the worldwide success of Sakamoto's 1984 soundtrack for the film "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" (in which he starred alongside David Bowie), Esperanto was a return to Sakamoto's leftfield roots. Composed as the soundtrack to a performance by New York choreographer Molissa Fenley (a show

and artistically

Taking its inspiration from this backdrop and shaped as Brendan Perry explored the long and established spring and harvest festivals that originated from the Dionysus religious practices

All of Resonance’s albums devoted to Evans and Montgomery have been released with the full cooperation of the musicians’ estates

Violent Femmes

both ex-members of the legendary Sleep

"Born Deprived

heavily processed guitars and the barest minimum of percussion

Alison's Starting To Happen

It’s a protometal masterpiece that’s been reissued on Rockadrome

It’s too tempting to think of what could have been

I barely knew how to use MIDI so I was just throwing him these experiments I was working on and he fine-tuned my ideas

" “'Round Midnight” and "Straight No Chaser