{"id":6926,"date":"2018-12-30T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2019-02-18T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:01:58","slug":"merry-christmas-mr-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/merry-christmas-mr-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved Ryuichi Sakamoto&#8217;s theme for the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merry_Christmas,_Mr._Lawrence\"><strong><em>Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence <\/em><\/strong><\/a>(1983).\u00a0He also stared in the film, which is quite rare. Usually a movie&#8217;s composer is unseen and may not start work on a film until after filming has been completed. The film also starred David Bowie, so there was no shortage of musical talent on screen &#8211; not that they were appearing as musicians. I was lucky enough to catch Mr. Sakamoto in concert in Seoul back on January 9, 2011. And this was one of the pieces he played. While I lived in Japan many years ago, I stumbled upon two books of guitar arrangements of famous songs and film themes. This and &#8220;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8221; are the two I have worked on so far. I was also looking for a piece to test out my bizarre <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.korg.com\/us\/products\/effects\/mikustomp\/\">Miko Stomp<\/a><\/strong> effects pedal which seeks to mimic the voice of a female Japanese animation character. Since this piece is by a Japanese composer and was written for a film that touches upon a period of Japanese history, albeit a dark one &#8230; Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p3C-bfZpi20\" width=\"536\" height=\"300\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved Ryuichi Sakamoto&#8217;s theme for the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983).\u00a0He also stared in the film, which is quite rare. Usually a movie&#8217;s composer is unseen and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,57,22,24],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-150","tag-film-music","tag-guitar","tag-peters-music-videos"],"views":8132,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6928,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}