Music

Heartbeat 1991

art pop 47 min 11 tracks Virgin Japan

Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records. A second version of the album was released in the United States and Europe in 1992, which replaced the original version of "Tainai Kaiki" with the David Sylvian-featuring version, "Heartbeat - Returning to the Womb", as well as English versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara", and bonus song "Cloud #9".

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Character

Character-led, spare, grave and contemporary.

character-ledplot-driven
sparerichly built
gravecomic

Tracks

1Heartbeat4:47
2Rap the World4:53
3Triste4:24
4Lulu4:20
5High Tide4:47
6Song Lines2:57
7Nuages2:15
8Sayonara5:24
9Borom Gal3:59
10Epilogue3:42
11Tainai Kaiki5:20

11 tracks, 47 minutes.

About the album

Artist: 坂本龍一
Label: Virgin Japan
Released: October 21, 1991
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: JP

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