It's the playfulness and the power in making music together, the true magic recipe of these Freaky People: we are what the universe wants! This is music of multiple forces, a sacred harmony to overcome barriers, which sees no enemies and breaks down egos.
Everything is always supported by the balance between robust and biting guitar riffs, raga-rock incursions, tribal rhythm sections and impregnable and captivating sax drifts and echoes of the soft lysergic sound of the '60s cannot be missing. These chants are incisive gospel and soul sermons and their narration magically permeates throughout the album. There's certainly a greater lightness and airiness, especially in the most immediate and direct arrangements to convey the message of brotherhood because the absolute weapon lies in female voices and choirs. Their typical blend of spiritual-jazz, psychedelia and Afro-Latin rock remains on the same wave, accentuating the collective rite of liberation and expansion of the spirit. From their home of love and nature, they set out to travel the universe to forge a new being together. Now, they live in a futuristic garden of delights, inhabited by strange bright bubbles, golden wheels, water secrets and mysterious plants. Al Doum and the Faryds continue their journey toward a new direction. Audio remastered in Tokyo by Seigen Ono.LP version. Original artwork includes two-page insert with a new introduction by journalist Andy Beta. A unique album in Ryuichi Sakamoto's rich discography, Esperanto is a groundbreaking work worth rediscovering in its full glory. Indeed, the album is a fascinating soundscape experimenting with the new sampler technology - which, according to Ryuichi Sakamoto from a conversation with journalist Andy Beta mentioned in the liner notes, needed a computer that was huge at the time. Composed as the soundtrack to a performance by New York choreographer Molissa Fenley (a show commissioned by Japanese producer Shozo Tsurumoto), the album was masterminded by Sakamoto with the help of the cutting-edge electronic technology of the time (the only external contributions are by Arto Lindsay on guitar and Japanese composer Yas-Kaz on percussion). Lawrence (in which he starred alongside David Bowie), Esperanto was a return to Sakamoto's leftfield roots. Coming after his stint with the influential Yellow Magic Orchestra, and also the worldwide success of Sakamoto's 1984 soundtrack for the film Merry Christmas Mr.
" Wewantsounds continues their Ryuichi Sakamoto reissue series with the release of the 1985 album Esperanto.
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