Plastic Bamboo, by Asynchrone

Plastic Bamboo

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A1 Plastic Bamboo 3'41
A2 Expecting Rivers 4'29
A3 Neue Tanz 4'22
A4 Thatness and Thereness 3'30
A5 Differencia 2'56
A6 Behind the Mask 4'08

B1 Boku No Kakera 3'20
B2 Once in a Lifetime 6'23
B3 Ubi 5'57
B4 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 6'44

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1. Plastic Bamboo 3'41
2. Expecting Rivers 4'29
3. Neue Tanz 4'22
4. Thatness and Thereness 3'30
5. Differencia 2'56
6. Behind the Mask 4'08
7. Boku No Kakera 3'20
8. Once in a Lifetime 6'23
9. Ubi 5'57
10. Riot in Lagos 5'35
11. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 6'44

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1.	Plastic Bamboo 03:41	buy track
2.	Expecting Rivers 04:28	buy track
3.	Neue Tanz 04:22	buy track
4.	Thatness and Thereness 03:29	buy track
5.	Differencia 02:56	buy track
6.	Behind The Mask 04:08	buy track
7.	Boku No Kakera 03:19	buy track
8.	Once in a Lifetime 06:23	buy track
9.	Ubi 05:57	buy track
10.	Riot in Lagos 05:36	buy track
11.	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 06:42	buy track

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French Jazz sextet Asynchrone reimagines legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's repertoire.

As fans of the maestro’s work, French free jazz/electro collective Asynchrone began to interrogate his oeuvre in 2020, aiming to get inside his music, taking it to unexplored new dimensions. On their debut album 'Plastic Bamboo', they achieve that and more. With a wildly eclectic approach in mind, there will be songs that most will be familiar with: ‘Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’ and Yellow Magic Orchestra’s ‘Behind The Mask’, in particular. And then there are the deeper cuts from Sakamoto’s solo albums from the early eighties that are less famous but that nevertheless helped to expand and augment the genre.

Asynchrone’s personnel is a link-up between founders cellist Clément Petit, producer and musician Frédéric Soulard (behind Jeanne Added’s Victoires De La Musique-winning album), alongside clarinet/saxophone player Hugues Mayot, flautist Delphine Joussein, pianist Manuel Peskine, and Vincent Taeger (Oumou Sangaré, Tony Allen) on drums.
Plastic Bamboo teems with vivacity and possibility, and it’s a record that is future-facing rather than any kind of sombre eulogy. It seeks to continue the musical conversation now that the architect is no longer with us. Asynchrone plays Sakamoto.

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released September 29, 2023

All compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Asynchrone is
Delphine Joussein - Flute
Hugues Mayot - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet,
Manuel Peskine - Piano
Clément Petit - Cello
Frederic Soulard - Synths, drum machines
Vincent Taeger - Drums

Vocals by Asynchrone

Recorded by Guillaume Dujardin at Studios Ferber, Paris, from 6-10th February 2023

Mixed by Guillaume Jay at studio B Badabing 
Mastered by Chab at Chab mastering

Imagined and arranged by Clément Petit and Frédéric Soulard
Produced by Frédéric Soulard 

© 2023 Nø Førmat!
℗ 2023 Nø Førmat!

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