Ryuichi Sakamoto And David Toop To Release Live Collaboration

'Garden Of Shadows And Light' is a recording of a show the pair played in London in June 2018

Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Toop are releasing their first collaboration next month.

Garden Of Shadows And Light comprises a recording of a collaborative performance by the pair at The Silver Building in London in June 2018. For the show, Sakamoto performed both at and inside a piano, as well as taking on percussion and electric guitar duties, while Toop used flutes, a bass recorder, minidiscs, bone conduction, vibration motors and prepared lap steel guitar.

You can watch a video of the full performance, originally shared by NTS in August 2018, above.

33-33 will release Garden Of Shadows And Light on July 9, 2021.

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