Track Listing

1. Lock
2. Fall
3. Walk
4. Sex
5. Museum
6. Bathroom
7. Boxing
8. Museum
9. Atelier
10. Bed-Museu
11. Nightmares
12. Switch
13. Sex
14. Redman 1
15. George in Rain
16. Redman 2
17. Toilet
18. Redman 3
19. Owl
20. Couch, Set up, Canvas
21. Bed
22. NY
23. Water Dro
24. Paint It Blue
25. Car Crash
26. Suicide
27. Monologue
28. Love Is the Devil

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217811 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Running time: 90 minutes

From Amazon.com
Due likely to his other careers as a pop artist, producer, classical composer, actor, and fashion model, Ryuichi Sakamoto the film scorer has averaged less than one film a year since his delightfully melodic debut, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence in 1983. But the Academy Award winner (The Last Emperor) has clearly eschewed quantity for quality, and his often-chilling music for Love Is the Devil (the first feature by vidoegrapher John Maybury--a disturbing portrait of artist Francis Bacon and his dark, obsessive relationship with his model/lover, George Dyer) is no exception. Sakamoto has long resisted composing mere musical narration for his film assignments; here he gets inside the characters by using the diverse palette and electronic techniques gleaned from his often cutting-edge pop work. This masterful melange of samples, treated piano, electronics, and white noise plays like a modern horror masterpiece, an eerie techno-concerto that owes more to Sakamoto's days as a student of electronic music and the avant-garde than to his sunny turn as leader of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Think Bernard Herrmann displaced by an ocean and half-a-century of technology. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description
Soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Further details TBA.