As to the objects that are inserted in a prepared piano, of course there are screws and the like for the purpose, but I also use things like rubber erasers. I also love gamelan music and I wanted everyone to know that these sounds could be made with a piano. I think he wanted to make the gamelan sound with a piano and that led to the prepared piano. Cage liked the sound of the gamelan orchestras of Bali. A prepared piano is a piano with objects that, when inserted between the strings, change its sound. I thought, "Well, then why don't I do something that shows all the possibilities of the piano?" And the first thing that came to my mind was a prepared piano. When it came time to make "BTTB," I had decided that I would do a piano album, but I didn't yet know the direction it would take. "BTTB" uses a Mongolian instrument, a mouth harp on "do bacteria sleep?" and a prepared piano on "prelude", "uetax", and "sonata".
Here for information on downloading this track. If you believe you have purchased one of these defective CDs, please click Of B T T B have been shipped with track 16, "Reversing", missing from the Thank you very much for your loyalty and patience.ĭue to a manufacturing error at the CD pressing plant in the U.S., some copies I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. It was purchased, to exchange it for the corrected CD.įor updated information, please access. Replacement CDs to be manufactured these are already shipping to stores.Īnyone purchasing the defective CD can return it immediately to any store To address this problem, we have arranged with Sony Classical for new Omitted from some copies of the CD when it was initially shipped in the U.S. Song "Reversing", recorded just for this CD. Sony Classical version of BTTB was produced to contain a previously Made a manufacturing error on some copies of my CD BTTB made in the U.S. We need it as much as we need hot black coffee at the break of dawn and a cat napping next to us in the afternoon.I have just learned that Sony Classical, our record company outside Japan,has Once in a while, we need music like this and this way of being.no, perhaps all the time. But music that leaves gaps where necessary. Music that gradually fills a space with high ceilings that contains the wafting presence of rain. BTTB – 20th Anniversary Edition includes all the tracks featured in the original release of the album, including the major hit "energy flow," remastered for the 21st Century.įrom the liner notes written by famous Japanese novelist H Murakami: "Personal and intimate music-somebody (an anonymous somebody) sitting alone in front of the school piano early in the morning, weaving a melody, exploring harmonies. Currently a rare and hard-to-find album outside of Japan, BTTB is being reissued in celebration of its 20th anniversary. The album is comprised entirely of original solo piano pieces, both delicate and frantic, with deep impressionist-inspired roots.
Originally released in 1998, BTTB (an acronym for "Back To The Basics") was a major commercial hit for Ryuichi Sakamoto.