Ryuichi Sakamoto (David Sylvian) - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence [1983, 320 kbps]

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (DAVID SYLVIAN) - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Furyo) (1983-84)



Codec: mp3.

Description: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.

Bit rate: 320 kbps.

Sample rate: 44100 Hz joint stereo.

Tags: ID3V1 & ID3V2.

Source format: CD.

Number of tracks: 23.



Wikipedia bio "Forbidden Colours":

"Forbidden Colours" is a song composed by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto with lyrics by English musician, composer and singer David Sylvian. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (in certain territories retitled Furyo) and was first released on the soundtrack album. "Forbidden Colours", also issued as a duet single on Virgin Records in 1983, was the second collaborative single release by Sylvian and Sakamoto, following 1982's "Bamboo Houses". The title of the song and its lyrics reflect the main themes of the movie; the clashes between not only two countries at war but also two vastly different cultures, difficulties on both sides in accepting or even trying to understand the differences in mentality, the contrasting definitions of honour and shame, as well as the underlying homoerotic tension between the two main characters, Japanese Captain Yonoi (played by Sakamoto himself) and British war prisoner Jack Celliers (David Bowie), and the fine line between love and hate and consequently life and death - hence "my love wears forbidden colours". In 1984 the track was re-recorded and released as the B-side to "Red Guitar", the lead single to Sylvian's first solo album Brilliant Trees and was later also included as a bonus track on certain editions of his 1987 album Secrets of the Beehive."



TRACK LIST

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

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01. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

02. Batavia

03. Germination

04. A Hearty Breakfast

05. Before The War

06. The Seed And The Sower

07. A Brief Encounter

08. Ride, Ride, Ride (Celliers' Brother's Song)

09. The Fight

10. Father Christmas

11. Dismissed

12. Assembly

13. Beyond Reason

14. Sowing The Seed

15. 23rd Psalm

16. Last Regrets

17. Ride, Ride, Ride (Reprise)

18. The Seed

19. Forbidden Colours (Vocals David Sylvian)



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20. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Solo piano version)

21. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Piano & strings version)

22. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Orchestral version)

23. Forbidden Colours (Version II) (David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Steve Jansen, B-side 7" & 12" "Red Guitar" 1984)



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