skmt09: Playing The Piano Ryuichi Sakamoto in Heidelberg.

me warming up from the cold and for the concert

here comes the evening.

Heidelberg has had a very nice sunset light. And as some birds took their way home the concert is only 1 hour away. The first guests arrived at the Hall.

a nice venue.

The concert started at 8:10pm. Sakamoto did a really nice intro with water sounds underlayed by a long synth tone. I didn’t know this piece but i think the water sound was field recorded by his trip to greenland. He played the piano by beating and picking the piano strings directly inside the piano. A really avantgardistic intro, and the next pieces were all from “out of noise”. Mr. Sakamoto was in a really good mood i think and he joked often during his concert. He was also a bit wondering that in the middle of octobre “we have around zero” degrees and as he is very engaged in environmental topics he joked these temperatures are a sign for “global colding”. laughs.

It’s not easy to write about what his music means to me and i think  it’s better letting this off, because the mood can only be shared by the artist and the listeners of the concert. And words can’t do it right. After pieces from “out of noise” he stated that he has no playlist what playing next and that he will choosing pieces according to his and the audiences mood. By looking around  he stated “…and also the mood of the hall”, “what a beautiful hall”. applauds.

“what a beautiful hall”

So the evening went on pretty nice and i was very impressed by the music and the atmosphere. At least he did 3 encores and as Sakamoto stated today at twitter “ the heidelberg gig is the longest so far on this tour. 2 hr 20 min.”

good night.

 

ticket and writing by David Toop

 

Here is the setlist from siteSakamoto:

1. glacier
2. hibari
3. still life
4. in the red
5. tama
6. nostalgia
7. composition0919
8. improvisation
9. energy flow
10. asience
11. tamago 2004
12. amore
13. tango
14. 1900
15. merry christmas mr.lawrence
16. the last emperor

    encore 1

17. sweet revenge
18. bibo no aozora
19. happyend
20. tibetan dance
21. thousand knives

    encore 2

22. aqua

    encore 3

23. 1919

ryuichi sakamoto playing the piano 2009_out of noise. Limited tour book ed.