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Merii Kurisumasu Sakamoto San
Merry Christmas Mr.Sakamoto

Bass: Twin Peaks (Joe Seldrick) Openworld Explorations
Piano: Arpeggio (Damon Armani) Openworld Explorations
Lead: Children (Davide Puxeddu) Technicolor vol.1
Addictive Drums Vintage Dead

An evocation, not an imitation, of Sakamoto’s music

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I like this a lot. I am a big fan of Sakamoto and I think this is a lovely tribute.

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#3

I really enjoyed that too! Lovely build and some great laid back sounds.

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#4

Thank you, Funtmaster, I stated with the Twin Peaks bass and when I finished, I thought it reminded me of Sakamoto, whose music I also enjoy.

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Thank you bigblip, they’re not always laid back, but I think the world needs some laying back.

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francoise,
Intro sounds like guitar with tremolo effect; I like it. Nice piano. David Bowie is my favorite male singer and has made plenty of great music, though I am not familiar with Sakamoto. Though I think your song sounds quite nice! It is relaxing. I heard plenty of French speaking when I was in French Polynesia recently. A beautiful language, even I if don’t understand most of it. Perhaps you could check out my latest song.

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Hi Aaron, how are you?
I’m back from the country with limited Internet access.
You probably know Bowie and Sakamoto played together in Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrerence. The Twin peaks guitar preset is inspiring.
French Polynesia, lucky you!

French and English borrowed many words from each other. I taught French-English differential linguistics to teachers of both languages. There’s so much to say.

I will surely listen to your new song.

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I am doing well, thank you. Sounds like you did some traveling too? This month I swam with a bunch of Black-tip Reef Sharks and a ~20 foot long “baby” humpback whale, so that was exciting. I just watched a few minutes of “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” on youtube, but they were speaking Japanese, and the subtitles were not in English. I don’t think I’ve seen much of it in the past.

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Sakamoto’s music is usually slow paced if I remember well. The ski resort I travel to is 30km (20miles) from Quebec city. On the subject of Mr.Lawrence, with climate change, we’re having white sharks in the St-Lawrence river (a very large river).

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Back in the 70’s, I bought a book called The Shark Attack Files. It told of a (most likely) Great White shark attack in New Jersey, where it happened inland in a creek/river. Assuming the attack you are speaking of happened in Canada, that is news to me. My wife’s grandparents were both hardhat divers. The grandmother was being lowered into the ocean, and a 12 foot long Great White went to bite her feet. She kicked the shark in the nose with one of her lead boots, and the shark reacted by jumping out of the water, and swam away. People in a nearby glass-bottom boat clapped; they thought it was part of the show! This was at Lover’s Cove, Avalon, Catalina Island, California, USA. I have snorkeled there many times, but the biggest shark I have seen there was a skinny (4-5 feet long) Leopard Shark; not considered dangerous.

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What a show your grandmother gave! She was quite unnerved!

White sharks have been sighted in the St-Lawrence (huge river) but there has been no shark attack reported yet. We have large belugas, huge and peaceful.
“White sharks, the new reality of the St. Lawrence”
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2188238/requin-mpo-recherche-science-plongeurs

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Lovely track Francoise.

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is one of my favourite pieces alongside the vocal version Forbidden Colours with David Sylvian.

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Hi Jonnie,

I’m listening to Callanish EP. I understand why Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence should be among your favorite pieces. I can’t say I know much about David Sylvian but I like what I’ve heard from him. It’s relatively low paced which is fine with me. In jazz, I enjoy Shirley Horn who is “mighty slow” according to her friend Miles Davis.

Funtmaster (Larry Poulton) did a nice remix. I hope he can give you the link to his remix.
I’m more a non pro jazz musician; I spend more time expressing ideas (good or bad) than on developing ideas.

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And here it is:

https://whyp.it/tracks/310627/sakamoto-san?token=6esun

It was much fun to rework.

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Francoise you have been very generous. Thank you so much from Phil and me. It’s very much appreciated.

David Sylvian was the singer in the 80s band Japan and has released several solo albums since. He worked with Sakamoto San on two singles (including Forbidden Colours).

And now I have a Funtmaster remix to listen to :slight_smile: 0

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#16

That’s a worthy and respectful remix/rework. I’ve never had the opportunity to do something like that and imagine it would indeed be a fun thing to do.

Thanks for sharing :pray:t2:

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I didn’t want to share the link since it’s your work.
My son is a musician so I respect copyrights meticulously.
I’ve worked on AI 1.0 and I’m against “generative AI”; it’s copyrights grand theft.

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I chose “To them all” since I play guitar but I also like Callanish.

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#19

Thank you :relaxed:
We have more music coming soon.
I may post one of my solo pieces here that features Arturia software.

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#20

Liked …very relaxed

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