Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Claire Rousay Golding fell victim to a

Golding fell victim to a violent racist attack

following a tour with Bad Brains

The band’s second 1969 album

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Claire Rousay Golding fell victim to aRyuichi Sakamoto's first solo album appeared before he formed Yellow Magic Orchestra in late 1978, after the young keyboardist had earned his M. A. in music from Tokyo University. Six long instrumentals make up this album, but apart from a taste for Asian sounding synth lines, they hint at very little of what was to come in YMO. "Thousand Knives" is a long disco lite jazzy workout with a guitar solo by Kazumi Watanabe (who would later join YMO on tour