Sakura (album)
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Sakura is a full-length album from electronic artist Susumu Yokota
, released in 1999 in Japan on Skintone (STR03) and on 11 September 2000 in the United Kingdom
on The Leaf Label
(BAY13). It was named as the top electronic release of the year 2000 by The Wire
.
Track six, "Gekkoh", features a sample from the opening of Steve Reich
's "Music for 18 Musicians".
Track eight, "Azukiiro No Kaori", contains samples from the Return to Forever
song "Sometime Ago/La Fiesta" from Return to Forever
.
Track nine, "Kodomotachi", features a sample from Joni Mitchell
's song "Songs to Aging Children Come" from Clouds.
Susumu Yokota
Susumu Yokota is a prolific Japanese composer.Yokota is well known in the English-speaking independent music scene for his albums of experimental ambient music...
, released in 1999 in Japan on Skintone (STR03) and on 11 September 2000 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
on The Leaf Label
The Leaf Label
The Leaf Label is an independent record label based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Initially known as an electronic music label, releasing mainly instrumental music, the company's approach has broadened over the last few years and now features an eclectic range of artists, with a focus on strong...
(BAY13). It was named as the top electronic release of the year 2000 by The Wire
The Wire (magazine)
The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...
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Track six, "Gekkoh", features a sample from the opening of Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
's "Music for 18 Musicians".
Track eight, "Azukiiro No Kaori", contains samples from the Return to Forever
Return to Forever
Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. Through its existence, the band has cycled through a number of different members, with the only consistent band mate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke...
song "Sometime Ago/La Fiesta" from Return to Forever
Return to Forever (album)
Return to Forever is a jazz fusion album by Chick Corea, simultaneously functioning as the debut album by the band of the same name. Unlike later albums by the group, it was released by the ECM label and produced by Manfred Eicher. The album was not released in the USA until 1975...
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Track nine, "Kodomotachi", features a sample from Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
's song "Songs to Aging Children Come" from Clouds.