ALVA NOTO & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO – Revep (remaster) – LP – Vinyl

LP – Black Vinyl (V.I.R.U.S. Series)

Initially released in 2006, Revep is the third collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the third installment of V.I.R.U.S.s five albums series. Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the albums recordings are accompanied by three new compositions titled City Radieuse, Veru 1, and Veru 2. City Radieuse was composed for the 2012 short cinematic essay titled Cit Radieuse and part of Carsten Nicolais future past perfect series. The video shot at le Corbusiers Unit DHabitation in Nantes (called cit radieuse) takes the viewer through the modular system and design applied to the residential buildings. The films narrative unfolds through a sequence of images tracking the apartments indoor space and details, and points to the different benchmarks of standardized production as they correlate to their environment and its inhabitants.

The albums original recordings resulted from musical exchanges that began with Vrioon and revolved around a collaborative arrangement of Sakamotos classic Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, the theme music to the 1983 movie starring David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, and Ryuichi Sakamoto himself. In Revep, the piano takes the lead while the padded bass and pitched electronic frequencies mark sudden change. Deeply evocative and effortlessly colliding worlds of analog beauty and digital mastery, this album is considered another indispensable record from the duos ongoing collaboration.

Tracklist:

A1. Siisx
A2. Mur
A3. Ax Mr L

B1. City Radieuse
B2. Veru 1
B3. Veru 2