Chasm (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

CHASM
Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released February 25, 2004 (2004-02-25) (Japan)
Genre Ambient, electronica
Label Warner Music Japan (WPCL-10072)
Producer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology
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Chasm (stylized as CHASM) is the 15th studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and was released in 2004. The album is experimental, pairing Sakamoto's piano work with ambient and glitch programming. Notably, Sakamoto's former bandmates from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, contribute on several songs under their own production name, Sketch Show.

"coro" was featured on the soundtrack to the anime film Appleseed, while "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano" and "only love can conquer hate" were featured in the film Babel. The original version of "Ngo", featured on the single for "Undercooled", was used in a New Balance advertisement. "Seven Samurai - ending theme" is taken from Sakamoto's score for the Playstation 2 game Seven Samurai 20XX.

The US pressing of the album replaces "the land song" with two pieces, "song" and "word". A single vinyl edition was also released, containing ten of the original fourteen songs.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, except "undercooled", with music by Sakamoto and lyrics by MC Sniper; "War & Peace", with music & lyrics by Sakamoto and lyrics by Arto Lindsay; "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano", with music by Sakamoto and lyrics by David Sylvian; "Ngo/bitmix" by Sakamoto and lyrics translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Maúcha Adnet and "World Citizen/re-cycled" by Sylvian. 

No. Title Length
1. "undercooled"   4:32
2. "coro"   4:05
3. "War & Peace"   5:31
4. "CHASM"   3:30
5. "World Citizen - I won't be disappointed/looped piano"   6:05
6. "only love can conquer hate"   9:47
7. "Ngo/bitmix"   5:10
8. "break with"   4:35
9. "+pantonal"   3:58
10. "the land song - music for Artelligent City/one winter day mix"   5:08
11. "20 msec."   5:32
12. "lamento"   3:43
13. "World Citizen/re-cycled"   4:57
14. "Seven Samurai - ending theme (music for PS2 game "Seven Samurai 20XX")"   5:41

International version

No. Title Length
1. "undercooled"   4:32
2. "coro"   4:05
3. "War & Peace"   5:31
4. "CHASM"   3:30
5. "World Citizen - I won't be disappointed/looped piano"   6:05
6. "only love can conquer hate"   9:47
7. "Ngo/bitmix"   5:10
8. "break with"   4:35
9. "+pantonal"   3:58
10. "20 msec."   5:32
11. "lamento"   3:43
12. "World Citizen/re-cycled"   4:57
13. "Song"   4:30
14. "Word"   5:00
15. "Seven Samurai - ending theme (music for PS2 game "Seven Samurai 20XX")"   5:41

Vinyl version

No. Title Length
1. "undercooled"   4:32
2. "coro"   4:05
3. "War & Peace"   5:31
4. "World Citizen - I won't be disappointed/looped piano"   6:05
5. "Ngo/bitmix"   5:10
No. Title Length
1. "+pantonal"   3:58
2. "the land song - music for Artelligent City/one winter day mix"   5:08
3. "20 msec."   5:32
4. "World Citizen/re-cycled"   4:57
5. "Seven Samurai - ending theme (music for PS2 game "Seven Samurai 20XX")"   5:41

Personnel

References

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