(Downtempo, Synth-Pop) [CD] Ryuichi Sakamoto - Sweet Revenge - 1994 (UK 11-Track Edition), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sweet Revenge
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"Sweet Revenge" is a successful first example of the less-is-more philosophy which Ryuichi Sakamoto would employ more and more on later albums. Stylistically, this album stil belongs to his early-to-mid nineties cosmopolitan period, with plenty of other musicians contributing, mainly from the New York scene but also from England and Japan.
The album-title refers to Sakamoto’s wish to bring a sense of melody back to the rhythm-obsessed pop-world and the result has a surprisingly warm feel-good atmosphere with some sweet melodies indeed. Sakamoto’s basic but subtle keyboard-figures are sometimes enhanced by the odd other instrument (guitar, flute, clarinet) or by the David Nadien-led string-section, who’d work with Sakamoto again on his "1996" project. What remains from his earlier albums are the electronic feel and elaborate percussion, though softer-edged than before. All this means that ample room is given over to the vocalists, who mostly wrote their own lyrics and were clearly instructed to "act them out" when singing their songs. Especially the girls (J-Me, Latasha Natasha Diggs and Vivian Sessoms) manage to spin some excellent modern-life/big-city stories, sometimes familiar, sometimes bizarre. For example J-Me’s ‘Moving On’, a touching story told by a teenager having just left the security of her parents’ house to live her own life. Or the surrealistic ‘Interruptions’ by Latasha Natasha Diggs, trying to learn some ancient Chinese wisdoms in a NY appartment full of distractions.
Not to be outdone, some experienced male singer/songwriters join the cast, among them Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame and Holly "Frankie" Johnson, who drops by on his way to Hollywood to write the lyrics and record semaphone vocals for ‘Love & Hate’, typically about modern society’s dubious morals.
Sakamoto (fronting the album-cover in what must be his "yellow magic"-suit) adds two instrumental tracks: the short opening track and title-track ‘Sweet Revenge’, with perhaps the richest melody of all.
As usual, the international release was preceded by this Japanese one which, strangely enough, is very different (some would say better) in terms of rhythms and mixing. It has the wonderfully easy-going David Byrne-track called ‘Psychedelic Afternoon’ that also appears on the "Sweet Revenge 1994 Tour" live-album + DVD.
Another item that followed on from this project was remix-album "Hard Revenge", probably the first occurrence of Sakamoto letting his music be interpreted by others, although the trend had started a year earlier with YMO’s final album "Technodon". Finally, both 'Moving On' and 'Love & Hate' were released on CD-singles with more decent remixes.
-- 2000. Ivar de Vries