* Due to payment system restrictions, the live streaming will only be available in Japan, U.S.A., Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Australia,Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines. This concert will be exclusively streamed live in 12 countries and regions. Sakamoto's "year-end piano solo concert " in Japan will be for the first piano solo performance in 7 years, since 2013. The video streaming service, MUSIC/SLASH, with the highest sound quality ever developed in the industry, will be the concert's streaming platform.
Also, the up-and-coming artist duo based in New York, Zakkubalan, will be in charge of cinematography and rise to the challenge of filming to bring out the best of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Rhizomatiks. Rhizomatiks will direct the live performance, a company led by artist Daito Manabe who is active in design, art, and entertainment, focusing on the relationship and boundaries between analog and digital as the real and virtual. To finish off the year "2020", a year no one will ever forget, Sakamoto will deliver a piano solo concert via live streaming from a Tokyo studio.
With the growing tendency for people to stay in their homes due to the COVID-19, he hoped that "music may relieve the tension a bit…" Ryuichi Sakamoto will present his final piano solo concert for 2020.īefore the state of emergency was declared in Japan, Sakamoto was amongst the first to stage a live streaming event on April 2, 2020. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 12122020