"Music is Freedom" Author: [Japan] Ryuichi Sakamoto Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House

Because it is impossible to define

So I will speak from my own experience

The "Professor" of Music Fans Around the World

Ryuichi Sakamoto's only autobiography

It's not in my nature to pick up fragments of memory and put them together to form a story. However, I am also interested in how I became Ryuichi Sakamoto today. After all, these memories are related to me, who is unique in the world. I want to understand why I am on this path now.

——Ryuichi Sakamoto

☆ Editor's Recommendation

◎The only oral autobiography of international music master Ryuichi Sakamoto is a summary of Ryuichi Sakamoto's activities and thoughts from birth to 2008. The book comprehensively tells how he "took the road of music" and how he "became who he is now", full of his understanding and gratitude for music.

◎Five movements, five stages, listen to how Ryuichi Sakamoto, who is full of golden sentences, describes his growth in childhood, fame in his young adulthood, and reflection in his old age.

◎More than 30 treasured personal photos show the life journey of the "Professor" from childhood to old age, adding a touch of intimacy and privacy to the "Professor's" self-narration.

☆ Introduction

This is the only autobiography of the famous Japanese music master Ryuichi Sakamoto. It tells the story from Sakamoto's childhood exposure to music and composition to his musical thoughts in recent years.

When Ryuichi Sakamoto was young, he felt the strong impact of music for the first time because of a song he wrote for kindergarten homework called "The Bunny Song". In elementary school, he followed the crowd to learn piano and composition, and eventually became the only one among his friends who persisted. In middle school, he was a thorough "angry young man" who went on strike to protest and marched in demonstrations. During this period, he once refused to learn music. But it was the emptiness brought about by this "rejection" that made Ryuichi Sakamoto realize that "I love music so much." He never thought of making music his life's mission, but music has accompanied him throughout his life. He joined the YMO band and achieved international success; with the soundtrack of "The Last Emperor", he won the Academy Award, the highest honor in the field of film soundtracks...

In this book, Ryuichi Sakamoto constantly looks back on his own growth and music creation in order to see his present self more clearly. The book also contains more than 30 photos of him from different periods, showing the fascinating life journey of this music master.

☆ Celebrity recommendation

Half of his works are soundtracks, but they have such a strong appeal in their own right that they can be appreciated as pure music. Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the greatest composers of our time.

——Billboard Magazine

When it (music) develops to its extreme, you will feel that it is almost like reading any profound philosophical treatise, with the same effect and meaning of intellectual exploration, far more than just an emotional expression, stimulation, or teasing. I also saw the same words and similar meaning in another book, written by another musician, which is the book I will talk about today. Sakamoto Ryuichi, a famous Japanese musician, has a book called "Music is Freedom".

——Liang Wendao, "Eight Minutes of Reading"