Beckett
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Milan Records announces the August 13, 2021 release of Beckett (Music From The Netflix Film) by Academy Award®-, Golden Globe®- and Grammy®-Award winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Milan Records announces the August 13, 2021 release of Beckett (Music From The Netflix Film) by Academy Award®-, Golden Globe®- and Grammy®-Award winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Available for now, the album features score music written by Ryuichi Sakamoto for the upcoming thriller directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and produced by Luca Guadagnino.
Also included within the 19-track collection is a new original song by producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and vocalist Devonté Hynes entitled “Born To Be,” which features prominently within the film’s official trailer.

Beckett made its world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival this week and will debut exclusively on Netflix on Friday, August 13.

The film stars John David Washington as Beckett, an American tourist vacationing in Greece who becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.

About Beckett
While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett (John David Washington) becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.

About Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger.
His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978. Two years later, he released the album B-2 Unit.
It included the track 'Riot in Lagos', which was significant in the development of electro and hip hop music. He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and his composition 'Energy Flow' (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history. As a film-score composer, Sakamoto has won an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Grammy, and 2 Golden Globe Awards.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) marked his debut as both an actor and a film-score composer; its main theme was adapted into the single 'Forbidden Colours' which became an international hit. His most successful work as a film composer was The Last Emperor (1987), after which he continued earning accolades composing for films such as The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), and The Revenant (2015). On occasion, Sakamoto has also worked as a composer and a scenario writer on anime and video games. In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of Culture of France for his contributions to music.

( Sony Music - Milan )

More info at: Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Official Site

More info at: Official Web Site Netflix