Editing Ryuichi Sakamoto (section)

===1990s===
''[[Heartbeat (Sakamoto album)|Heartbeat]]'' (1991) and ''[[Sweet Revenge (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)|Sweet Revenge]]'' (1994) feature Sakamoto's collaborations with a global range of artists such as [[Roddy Frame]], Dee Dee Brave, Marco Prince, [[Arto Lindsay]], [[Youssou N'Dour]], [[David Sylvian]], and [[Ingrid Chavez]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto – Heartbeat Album |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/heartbeat-mw0000613757 |access-date=2023-04-04 |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto – Sweet Revenge Album |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sweet-revenge-mw0000117926 |access-date=2023-04-04 |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> In 1992, Sakamoto composed music for the [[1992 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|opening ceremony]] of the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in Barcelona, Spain.<ref name=":1"/>

In 1995, Sakamoto released ''Smoochy'', described by the ''Sound on Sound'' website as Sakamoto's "excursion into the land of easy-listening and Latin", followed by the ''[[1996 (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)|1996]]'' album, which featured a number of previously released pieces arranged for solo piano, violin, and cello.<ref name="sos">{{cite web |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto: Classical & Pop Fusion |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/ryuichi-sakamoto-classical-pop-fusion |website=[[Sound on Sound]] |access-date=March 28, 2024 |date=April 1998}}</ref> During December 1996 Sakamoto, composed the entirety of an hour-long orchestral work entitled "Untitled 01" and released as the album ''Discord'' (1998).<ref name="sos"/> The [[Sony Classical]] release of ''Discord'' was sold in a [[Jewel case#Jewel case|jewel case]] that was covered by a blue-colored [[slipcase]] made of [[Metal leaf|foil]], while the CD also contained a data video track. In 1998 the [[Ninja Tune]] record label released the ''Prayer/Salvation Remixes'', for which prominent electronica artists such as Ashley Beedle and Andrea Parker remixed sections from the "Prayer" and "Salvation" parts of ''Discord''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Prayer / Salvation Remixes|url=http://ninjatune.net/de/release/ryuichi-sakamoto/prayer-salvation-remixes|website=Ninja Tune|access-date=June 22, 2014|date=June 22, 2014}}</ref> Sakamoto collaborated primarily with guitarist David Torn and [[DJ Spooky]]—artist [[Laurie Anderson]] provides spoken word on the composition—and the recording was condensed from nine live performances of the work, recorded during a Japanese tour. ''Discord'' was divided into four parts: "Grief", "Anger", "Prayer", and "Salvation"; Sakamoto explained in 1998 that he was "not religious, but maybe spiritual" and "The Prayer is to anybody or anything you want to name." Sakamoto further explained:

{{Blockquote|The themes of Prayer and Salvation came out of the feelings of sadness and frustration that I expressed in the first two movements, about the fact that people are starving in the world, and we are not able to help them. People are dying, and yet the political and economical and historical situations are too complicated and inert for us to do much about it. So I got really angry with myself. I asked myself what I could do, and since there's not a lot I can do on the practical level, all that's left for me is to pray. But it's not enough just to pray; I also had to think about actually saving those people, so the last movement is called Salvation. That's the journey of the piece.<ref name="sos"/>}}

In 1998, Italian ethnomusicologist [[Massimo Milano]] published ''[[Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni]]'' through the Padova, Arcana imprint. All three editions of the book were published in the Italian language.<ref>{{cite book|title=Showing all editions for 'Ryuichi Sakamoto : conversazioni'|publisher=OCLC|year=2001–2014|oclc=801212773}}</ref> Sakamoto's next album, ''[[BTTB (album)|BTTB]]'' (1999)—an [[acronym]] for "Back to the Basics" is comprised a series of original pieces on solo piano influenced by [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]] and [[Erik Satie|Satie]] and includes "Energy Flow" (a major hit in Japan) and an arrangement of the Yellow Magic Orchestra classic "Tong Poo".<ref>{{Cite web |last=McDermott |first=Matt |date=2018-09-11 |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto's rare solo piano record, BTTB, to be reissued on its 20th anniversary |url=https://ra.co/news/42482 |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=[[Resident Advisor]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ismael Ruiz |first=Matthew |date=2021-11-24 |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto Shares New Arrangement of Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Tong Poo": Listen |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/ryuichi-sakamoto-shares-new-arrangement-of-yellow-magic-orchestra-tong-poo-listen/ |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>

Sakamoto's long-awaited "opera" ''{{ill|LIFE (Sakamoto opera)|ja|LIFE a ryuichi sakamoto opera 1999|lt=LIFE}}'' was released in 1999, with visual direction by [[Shiro Takatani]], artistic director of [[Dumb Type]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani – Life-fluid, invisible, inaudible... |url=http://www.epidemic.net/en/art/takatani/proj/life-fii.html |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Epidemic}}</ref> This ambitious multi-genre multi-media project featured contributions from [[Pina Bausch]], [[Bernardo Bertolucci]], [[Josep Carreras]], [[The 14th Dalai Lama|the Dalai Lama]], and [[Salman Rushdie]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan) |url=https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/apsa-nominees-winners/2012/fiapf-award/ryuichi-sakamoto-japan |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Asia Pacific Screen Awards |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2007, they "deconstructed" all the visual images and the sound, to create an art installation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LIFE—fluid, invisible, inaudible... |url=https://www.ycam.jp/en/archive/works/life/ |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]}}</ref><ref name=Stames>{{Cite news |last=Starnes |first=Sadie Rebecca |date=2021-07-14 |title=Ryuichi Sakamoto on Life, Nature and ''Time''|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/arts/music/ryuichi-sakamoto-time.html|access-date=2023-04-04}}</ref>