New Age

Ambient, Arranger, Art Rock, Avant-garde, Beach Boys, Cinema, Classical, Composer, Dance, Dubstep, Electronic, Electronic, Experimental, Film Scores, Grammy, Japan, New Age, Oscar, Piano, Pop, Producer, Robbie Robertson, Rock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Songwriter, Synthesizer, The Band October 25, 2010

Ryuichi Sakamoto works with giants and with glaciers

Composer found music even in the frigid waters of the Arctic Sea.  Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Mon Oct 25 2010 Over 80 albums and 32 years, revered Japanese cultural icon Ryuichi Sakamoto — who made a rare Toronto concert appearance Sunday at the Queen Elizabeth Centre — has dabbled in a lot of genres. Since he graduated from his electronic music studies at Tokyo’s University of Art, Sakamoto,…

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Ambient, Arranger, Business, Canada, Composer, Electronic, Engineer, Experimental, Mixer, Nature Sounds, New Age, Producer, Toronto July 25, 1999

Capturing The Sound of Silence

  Far from the madding crowds, sound hunters search the wilderness for an elusive ingredient for their recordings — absolute silence   Nick Krewen The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, July 25, 1999 It’s another long, sweltering day in the tropical rainforest, and Kevin O’ Leary is on safari. With an assistant who doubles as photographer at his side, and more than 30 kgs of gear each strapped to their backs, they…