BTTB (album)

BTTB

Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Released

February 2, 1999 (Japan)
January 2000 (Europe)
February 8, 2000 (US)

Studio

Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Mouri Artworks Studio and Victor Aoyama Studio
(Tokyo)

Genre

Classical

Length

63:04

Label

Sony Classical

Producer

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology

Discord
(1997)

BTTB
(1999)

Comica
(2002)

Singles from BTTB

"Ulla BTTB"
Released: May 26, 26

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

BTTB is a 1999 piano solo album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album title is an acronym for "Back To The Basics". A maxi single was released on May 26, 1999 and featured the tracks "Energy Flow", "Put Your Hands Up", and "Railroad Man". The single peaked at number four on the Japanese singles chart.^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Energy Flow"	4:36
2.	"Put Your Hands Up"	4:51
3.	"Railroad Man"	4:42
4.	"Opus"	4:27
5.	"Sonatine"	3:38
6.	"Intermezzo"	3:44
7.	"Lorenz and Watson"	3:57
8.	"Choral No. 1"	2:27
9.	"Choral No. 2"	2:05
10.	"Bachata"	8:14
11.	"Chanson"	2:23
12.	"Prelude"	4:08
13.	"Uetax"	0:26
14.	"Aqua"	4:29
15.	"Tong Poo"	5:03
16.	"Reversing"	3:58

Personnel

Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano

Technical

Fernando Aponte – engineer
Naoto Shibuya – engineer, mixing
Masaki Sekiguchi – assistant engineer
Ted Jensen – mastering
Hideki Nakajima – direction

References

↑ Vallier, John. BTTB at AllMusic
↑ "1999年　シングル年間TOP100". Yahoo! GeoCities (in Japanese). Yahoo!. Archived from the original on May 23, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Studio albums

Solo	Thousand Knives (1978) B-2 Unit (1980) Left-Handed Dream (1981) Ongaku Zukan (1984) Esperanto (1985) Futurista (1986) Neo Geo (1987) Beauty (1989) Heartbeat (1991) Sweet Revenge (1994) Smoochy (1995) 1996 (1996) Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002) Elephantism (2002) Chasm (2004) Out of Noise (2009) Three (2012)

Collaborations	Disappointment-Hateruma (1975) Summer Nerves (1979) The End of Asia (1982) The Arrangement (1982) Casa (2001) Vrioon (2002) A Day in New York (2003) Insen (2005) Ocean Fire (2007) Cendre (2007) utp_ (2008) Summvs (2011) Flumina (2011) Ancient Future (2012) Perpetual (2015)

Extended plays

Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 (1997)
Zero Landmine (2001)
World Citizen (2003)
Sala Santa Cecilia (2005)
Revep (2006)

Live albums

Media Bahn Live (1986)
Playing the Orchestra (1988)
Asian Games (1993)
Cinemage (1999)
Audio Life (2000)
In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London (2001)
Playing the Piano (2009)

Compilations

Tokyo Joe (1978)
Coda (1983)
Soundbytes (1994)
Works I – CM (2002)
Moto.tronic (2003)
/04 (2004)
/05 (2005)
Bricolages (2006)
Year Book 2005–2014 (2015)
Year Book 1971-1979 (2016)

Soundtracks

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Tacones lejanos (High Heels) (1991)
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Wild Palms (1993)
Little Buddha (1993)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Gohatto (1999)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Tony Takitani (2004)
The Revenant (2015)

Songs

Filmography

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
"Rain" (1993)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Neo the Office Chuckler (2004)
Freeter, Ie wo Kau (2010)
Hungry! (2012)
Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012)

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