Bamboo Houses

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“Bamboo Houses”
“Bamboo Houses” cover
Single by Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian
Released 1982
Recorded 1982
Genre Pop, Rock, Electronic
Length 4:13
Label Virgin Records
Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Steve Nye
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian singles chronology
"Bamboo Houses"
(1982)		 "Forbidden Colours"
(1983)
Alternate cover
Alternate cover

"Bamboo Houses" is a song by Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and English musician, composer and singer David Sylvian, released on Virgin Records in 1982.

The double A-side single "Bamboo Houses"/"Bamboo Music" was the first solo project by Sylvian, released while he was still a member of the band Japan. It was the second collaboration between two, the first being the track "Taking Islands in Africa" on the 1980 Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids which featured Sakamoto on keyboards. The "Bamboo Houses" single in turn featured drums by Japan member Steve Jansen, who also appeared in the promo video, and was co-produced by Steve Nye.

In 1983 Sylvian and Sakamoto would team up again on "Forbidden Colours", the theme song to the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

A remix of "Bamboo Houses" was included on David Sylvian's career retrospective Everything and Nothing in 2000.

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Composed and arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian

  • UK 7" single with gatefold sleeve, Virgin Records VS 510
  1. "Bamboo Houses" (7" Edit) – 4:13
  2. "Bamboo Music" (7" Edit) – 4:40
  • UK 12", Virgin Records VS 510-12
  1. "Bamboo Houses" – 5:26
  2. "Bamboo Music" – 5:38

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