Shintaro Sakamoto - Birth of the Super Cult (Official Video)

From the album "Let's Dance Raw,"out September 16 (September 15 in the UK/EU) on Other Music Recording Co.
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Directed by Yasuyuki Yamaguchi (OMB/Tokyo No.1)
Japanese singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shintaro Sakamoto returns with a new full-length, Let's Dance Raw, which Other Music Recording Co. (distributed by Fat Possum) releases on September 16. The album is the follow-up to Sakamoto's solo debut, the otherworldly folk-pop masterpiece How to Live with a Phantom (2012, Other Music).
While How to Live with a Phantom was the first many around the globe knew of Sakamoto, he has long been an icon in his homeland, having long fronted the psychedelic phenomenon Yura Yura Teikoku, a Tokyo-based band that emerged from Koenji's legendary UFO Club scene and, across their 20-year trajectory, achieved mainstream success throughout the country. Following the group's break-up in 2010, Sakamoto began working on How to Live with a Phantom, a bold stylistic departure that eschewed Yura Yura Teikokou's psychedelic freak-outs for a much quieter and harder-to-define sound.
From first glimpse of the cover of Let's Dance Raw, it's clear that once again, we are entering uncharted territory. The record's sleeve, painted by Sakamoto, features the artist sitting upon a black throne, a steel guitar resting on his knee like a child being protected from the ominous mushroom cloud of smoke billowing behind him. A grinning skull has replaced Sakamoto's face. This dichotomy of bright, innocent beauty and subtle perversity is the essence of Let's Dance Raw, with Sakamoto moving even further from the tough underground power-trio psychedelic rock of his former band.
He hinted at the new sound throughout his solo debut, and here the music is blown wide open, with the steel guitar as the unifying force throughout. Sakamoto purchased and learned how to play the instrument just prior to writing and recording Let's Dance Raw, and it enriches the post-apocalyptic exotica on these ten songs, fusing together the bright and breezy shimmer of Hawaiian slack-key hula melodies, the dusty shuffle of southwestern desert blues, and the space-age bachelor-pad music of postwar suburban dreamers. The result is an album that revisits the soundtracks of musical escapism made popular in postwar American and Japanese cultures-and deftly updates them.
It's all anchored by deep, jazzy grooves straight out of a 1970s AM radio broadcast, and peppered with flourishes of Brazilian and Latin percussion throughout. Atop the music, Sakamoto sings of the human race's downfall, the weight of the lyrics made contrastingly perverse via duets with robotic vocoder voices and helium-voiced cartoon chipmunks cooing in an unsettling fashion alongside him. While Sakamoto once again handles the bulk of the instrumental duties, faithful drummer and percussionist Yuta Suganuma also returns for this set, as well as bassist AYA, on loan from fellow Japanese psychedelic explorers OOIOO.

[@barrettstoffer8289]

Listening to shintaro sakamoto is one of the highlights of my life

[@clayfromplanetearth3509]

Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
Various people have come to it (various people fit in it)
Various people saw the same thing (like many people)
It's more lovely than love (something lovely than love)
It is more useful than God (something useful from God)
More than anything else (if you feel comfortable)
Before I can not return anymore (under)
Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
It's more lovely than love (something lovely than love)
It is more useful than God (something useful from God)
Although it is hell even if it looks (although it is hell though it sees it)
Before I can not return anymore (under)
Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years

[@koniforzablue]

Shintaro no tiene nada que envidiarle a la musica occidental, el es un fuera de serie.

[@rodolfoperalta5180]

This song is the first song that comes to my mind on calm mornings

[@simondimas838]

bro this song is the opposite of calm

[@looopsurbina8348]

Recién descubrí a Shintaro 🖤 uff joya, siento que me he perdido de mucho estos años, ahora lo escucho todo el tiempo. Que hermosa música hace. Arigato desde México 🙏

[@albertothompsonperez3332]

vdd que siiiii

[@lauracrimsonmusic]

He looks like Jimmy Page. I love this song!

[@Caniballe]

Birth of the super genius!

[@djbrainz]

My favorite video of all time

[@chaserisinger]

God damn, there is so much cool in this video

[@sisui7793]

cute very cute

[@ayush4677]

Namaste

[@migueljr9564]

I’m 17 years of age and I’m very proud I listen to various artists and not the ones people have been stuck on for years

[@Caniballe]

Gen Z will save the world!

[@lmchahsisoui]

i vibe sm with this song !!!

[@r3nnot]

I love you man

beatifull!

[@stoqpotz]

So excited for this release

[@karlaperrichon9419]

Shit this is overwhelming

[@NicolasRRBB]

This is amazing, dude!

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

Hi @OtherMusicRecording, could you change the settings on your video Shintaro Sakamoto -- "You Can Be A Robot, Too (feat Kamome Children's Choir) Official Video" so that it isn't 'made for children'? I can't add it to my music playlist.

[@chazaiya]

dont know if you still need this but it's up on the official Zelone Records channel and it's not for children th-cam.com/video/BFa0SA4pEKo/w-d-xo.html

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

@@chazaiya hell yes, thank you kind stranger!

[@isabelcoronamontiel9677]

❤💕

[@losangeleslovesyou]

❤❤

[@criticalvibes6375]

So is this birth of the super cult describing Christianity? 2000 years ago it was born

[@rareblues78daddy]

Must be... it's one of the biggest cults on Earth.

[@jeanfromhell]

clipe da xuxa ao contrário

[@ViolenziaDomestica]

Asian Mr Bungle

[@labrat_goyle]

0:10

[@wowlizzy4039]

[@thecreation4982]

What instrument is he playing ?

[@joshb8976]

Lap steel.

[@davidfeauai-afaese3690]

hawaiian steel guitar*

[@Patrick-oy1eu]

English translation please:)

[@PimiRavizza]

genius.com/Shintaro-sakamoto-birth-of-the-super-cult-lyrics scroll down

[@clayfromplanetearth3509]

Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
Various people have come to it (various people fit in it)
Various people saw the same thing (like many people)
It's more lovely than love (something lovely than love)
It is more useful than God (something useful from God)
More than anything else (if you feel comfortable)
Before I can not return anymore (under)
Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
It's more lovely than love (something lovely than love)
It is more useful than God (something useful from God)
Although it is hell even if it looks (although it is hell though it sees it)
Before I can not return anymore (under)
Two thousand years ago it was born (two thousand years ago it was born)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years)
Two years later the world was destroyed (the world was destroyed in two years

[@sisui7793]

しゅーる　しゅーるやわー　これ

[@exquisite_mango2320]

This is blasphemy

[@Ness0087]

May I ask in what way? I don’t understand the lyrics haha