Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives OfWewantsounds is proud to announce the release of Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album originally released in 1978 on the sought after Better Days label. Sakamoto was a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra at the time but the group hadn't released their first album yet. Featuring Sakamoto on a wide range of synthesizers and keyboards programmed by Hideki Matsutake, and accompanied by a few musicians including Haruomi Hosono and Pecker, Thousand Knives was a

driving a spike into Eighties rock

Equal Rights (Security Force)

The singer-songwriter and prodigious guitarist was in transition from his folkier origins to his heavier future and headingåÊfor a whole mess of trouble with the same year‰۪s Wrecked Again

masterful use of live tape loops and radical song structure

the songs transcend expectations as often as they delight the eardrums

specialized

Hand-numbered

Double LP in 5mm spine sleeve with printed inners andåÊdownload card

Love’s Forever Changes is the psychedelic folk-rock pioneers’ finest achievement

the absurdity of the notion that one can possibly be more deserving by birthright

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion takes a ferocious bite out of the Big Apple with their new long-player

perhaps the definitive one