Ratliff notes that Sakamoto will be retained as “chief playlister” at Hiroki Odo’s new restaurant.
Ultimately, the composer was to driven to issue the owner of the restaurant an ultimatum, which lead to his curation of The Kayitsu Restaurant Playlist, which Sakamoto made with the help of New York music producer Ryu Takahashi. In The New York Times interview, Sakamoto recalls telling a chef at the restaurant, Hiroki Odo, “your food is as good as the beauty of Katsura Rikyu…But the music in your restaurant is like Trump Tower”. Speaking to Ratliff about the restaurant’s music choices, Sakamoto said “I found their BGM so bad, so bad…a mixture of terrible Brazilian pop music and some old American folk music”. The playlist, featuring compositions from Jóhann Jóhannsson and Colin Stetson, as well as tracks from Aphex Twin, Oneohtrix Point Never and Nicolas Jaar, can be listened to below. Writing in The New York Times, music critic Ben Ratliff has detailed master musician and Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Ryuichi Sakamoto’s efforts to combat his growing contention with the music in his favourite restaurant.ĭismayed at the terrible selections at Manhattan restaurant Kajitsu, close to Sakamoto’s home in the West Village, the composer took it upon himself to curate his own BGM. The album was recorded between 20 Fennesz on guitar and laptop in Vienna, Sakamoto on piano and laptop in New York City. Fourteen years later, it still sounds icy, delicate and striking in its cool, calm elegance. Listen to the composer’s elegantly curated culinary background music below. Originally released in 2007, 'Cendre' was the second collaboration between Austrian sound artist Christian Fennesz and Japanese legend Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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