Category: media
Rest In Peace, Mr. Sakamoto
News came earlier today (April 2, 2023) that Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 died on March 28 of colon cancer. I (Chris) am saddened by his passing as he was a musician that I have been following since the late 70’s. I still have these vinyl LPs bought 40 years ago. He was a founding member of…
Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate
Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 5 km (3 miles) west of the city of Ouarzazate, the second town where we spent a night on our Merzouga-to-Essaouira road trip across Morocco. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and here. According to Wikipedia, measured by acreage, it is the…
Life, Life – Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian, both my very favorite artists, collaborated again on this video – the music, poem and time-lapse photographed images of New York City. Meditative and beautiful. How did I miss this by almost three years? It was released in 2017 when Sakamoto’s “async” came out. And I just discovered this video.…
Watching the Olympics at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne
Closer to home … Earlier this year while the 2018 Winter Olympics games were being held in South Korea, we went to visit our town’s most famous tourist attraction – the Olympics Museum (Le Museé Olympique). The museum is located on a slope facing Lac Leman, not far from downtown Lausanne. We took a city…