The pottery fragment included in the box is, therefore, also a part of the music itself. The pottery fragment included in the set is a piece of a plate crafted by Oka and hand-painted by Sakamoto, then smashed as part of the recording process the sound of the pottery breaking forms the basis of a brand-new song. The set was first announced on September 18th as a collaboration with Art director Shinichiro Ogata, along with a teaser site featuring a fascinating interview discussing the box set’s concept. The box set is limited to 300 copies and will be released on March 30, 2021, priced at 200,000 yen (excluding tax). In keeping with this theme, the box includes a fragment of pottery smashed as part of the new song’s recording. Also included is a brand-new song based on the concept of “fragments of memory”, one of this set’s themes. Preorders are now open for ‘2020S’, the complete box set that collects all music produced and released by Sakamoto in 2020, across a total of seven vinyl records. AVEX mentioned the following in their press release regarding the release: $1,850 USD) and will certainly be a mantlepiece in any collectors library. The box set is limited to 300 pieces and will cost a whopping ¥200,000 (approx. The box set will include all of the songs that he produced and released across 2020 spanning across seven vinyl discs complete in a chic box that also contains a fragment of pottery that was smashed during the new song “fragments of memory” recording. Hot on the tails of the announcement of his online concert ‘ Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 12122020‘, he will also be putting out a really awesome seven vinyl release box set titled ‘2020S’. After YMO disbanded in 1983, he produced more solo records, including collaborations with various international artists, through to the 1990s.As previously mentioned Ryuichi Sakamoto is a legend in the music industry, lending a hand to the ever-changing sound that comes with generations of music. He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto (1978), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit (1980), which included the electro classic 'Riot in Lagos'. The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as 'Computer Game / Firecracker' (1978) and 'Behind the Mask' (1978), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto. He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist.

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi?, born January 17, 1952) (Japanese pronunciation: ) is a Japanese musician, activist, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor, based in Tokyo and New York.

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