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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Academy Award-winning, Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor

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Ryuichi Sakamoto recording sound at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier during Cape Farewell’s 2008 Disko Bay expedition. Photo by Nathan Gallagher.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto recording sound at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier during the 2008 Disko Bay expedition. Photo by Nathan Gallagher.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto recording sound at the mouth of Sermeg Avangnardleq Glacier during Cape Farewell’s 2008 Disko Bay expedition. Photo by Nathan Gallagher.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jarvis Cocker during the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition. Photo by Nathan Gallagher.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto photographed during Cape Farewell’s Disko Bay Expedition. Photo by Nathan Gallagher.

Ryuichi Sakamoto joined Cape Farewell on the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, visiting the spectacular Disko Bay area of West Greenland with over 40 international artists, journalists and scientists. He features in our film Burning Ice, directed by Peter Gilbert and based on the expedition, alongside musicians Laurie Anderson, KT Tunstall, Jarvis Cocker, Martha Wainwright and Feist.

An exclusive track by Sakamoto from the Disko Bay expedition was featured in Songlines Magazine. Available on a free CD with their April 2009 edition.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is an Academy Award-winning, Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo.

About the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition
Burning Ice – film
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