{"product_id":"12-conversations","title":"12 Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e12 Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the artists spent more than two decades fusing and expanding their disciplines, with Sakamoto's evocative, sustain-drenched piano compositions finding their counterpart in Nicolai's skilful and sensitive electronic detailing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach successive project further deepened their artistic dialogue: from the five studio albums of the V.I.R.U.S. series (Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_ with Ensemble Modern, and Summvs), to their score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant; Glass (2017), a wholly improvised performance inside Philip Johnson's iconic Connecticut landmark, in which the pair fixed contact microphones to the glass walls, playing the architecture itself as an instrument; and Two (2019), a document of their live performance at the Sydney Opera House.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross these works, their distinct approaches achieved a rare synthesis, a brilliantly sustained dialogue between piano and electronics, Sakamoto's warmth and melodic finesse meeting Nicolai's abstract electronic formalism to invoke a mesmeric quietude as deeply satisfying in its melodic resolutions as in the merger of its filmic romanticism and meditative subtlety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e12 Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e brings together musical exchanges recorded in November and December 2022. Rooted in the same creative period that gave rise to Sakamoto's final solo album 12, these recordings were not originally intended as a standalone release. It was only after the completion of 12 that Sakamoto and Nicolai decided to present these exchanges as a work in their own right. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album reflects the vitality and curiosity that defined more than two decades of shared inspiration: fluid, exploratory, and forward-looking. Created with openness and trust, it captures a creative process in constant transformation - sounds expanding, altering, and evolving through attentive listening. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConceived as the continuation of an artistic dialogue extending beyond the physical, 12 Conversations honours Sakamoto's wish that these encounters should exist beyond the archive, offering an enduring testament to one of contemporary music's most revered collaborations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Noton","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":57875805962571,"sku":"R6626-6126","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57875806683467,"sku":"R6626-6693","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1-ryuichi-sakamoto-and-alva-noto-12-conversations.webp?v=1784194075","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/12-conversations","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}