[Ryuichi Sakamoto]"Opus" nominated for Best New Age, Ambient, Chant Album at the 67th Grammy Awards

Avex Music Creative Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Takeya Ino) won the Best Picture Award at the 67th Grammy Awards for “Opus,” a recording of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final piano solo concert. We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album.

Avex and Ryuichi Sakamoto founded the music label commons in 2006 as a joint project. With the slogan “think global, act local,” the label aims to create better relationships between artists/creators, the music industry, and users/listeners as a new music community that aims to contribute to society and culture with an ecological perspective. We have carried out various activities with the aim of becoming the “commons” of the world. The name of the label is “commmons” with three “M”s, with the hope that music will continue to exist at the center of the commons.

“Opus”, which was nominated this time, is his last piano solo concert piece. Contains 20 songs selected by Ryuichi Sakamoto himself, including the famous songs “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”, “The Last Emperor”, songs from his last original album “12”, and “Tong Poo” from his Yellow Magic Orchestra days. Masu.

The Grammy Awards are considered the most prestigious of the many music-related awards that attract the attention of not only music fans, but also musicians and music professionals around the world. The award will be announced at the 67th Grammy Awards Ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on February 2, 2025 (*local time).

[Ryuichi Sakamoto Profile]

Ryuichi Sakamoto (SAKAMOTO Ryuichi / Musician)

Born in Tokyo in 1952. In 1978, he made his solo debut with “A Thousand Knives”. In the same year, he participated in the formation of “Yellow Magic Orchestra”, and even after disbanding in 1983, he has been active in various fields. He won the British Academy Award for the music for the movie “Merry Christmas” (1983), the Academy Award for Original Music Composition, the Grammy Award, and others for the music for the movie “The Last Emperor.” He is involved in many environmental and peace issues, and founded the forest conservation organization “More Trees.” He also supported the victims of the Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake through music, such as by founding the “Tohoku Youth Orchestra.” From the 1980s to the 2000s, he participated in many exhibitions and large-scale media video events, and served as artistic director of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in 2013, and guest director of the Sapporo International Art Festival in 2014. Large-scale installation exhibitions were held at piknic/Seoul in 2018, M WOODS/Beijing in 2021, and M WOODS/Chengdu in 2023, and even after his death, MR’s latest work “KAGAMI” toured New York, Manchester, London, and other places, and art Active border crossing into the world continues today. Passed away on March 28, 2023 at the age of 71.