{"product_id":"ryuichi-sakamoto-12-vinyl-lp","title":"12","description":"Some music seems to occupy a space. Ryuichi Sakamoto’s makes us aware that we are part of it.\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded at home as a series of musical sketches during his final years, \u003cem\u003e12\u003c\/em\u003e is among Sakamoto’s most intimate works. Piano, synthesizer, breath and the quiet atmosphere of the room coexist with remarkable tenderness. There is little separation between composition and environment; each sound seems to make the silence around it more perceptible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor us, Sakamoto was a master of the invisible architecture of space. His music deepens our awareness of atmosphere—of distance, stillness, time, and our own presence within them. Listening to \u003cem\u003e12\u003c\/em\u003e can produce the peculiar sensation that the boundary between ourselves and our surroundings has softened: we are not simply in the space; for a moment, we are part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompleted while Sakamoto was living with cancer and released only months before his death in 2023, \u003cem\u003e12\u003c\/em\u003e feels less like a final statement than an extraordinarily attentive act of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pale Blue Dot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49886813225112,"sku":"196587898212","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0200\/7616\/files\/4160248-2918324.jpg?v=1789223666","url":"https:\/\/www.artofplay.com\/products\/ryuichi-sakamoto-12-vinyl-lp","provider":"Art of Play","version":"1.0","type":"link"}