Alternative music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto and his regular collaborator, the leading electronic musician known as Alva Noto, talk to Tiffany Pritchard about their Bafta-nominated work on The Revenant.

The Cure have released more than a few iconic songs over the years, and one of those high water marks remains their 1980 track "A Forest." Now 40 years to the day after the Seventeen Seconds single ...

Since 2007, German electronic experimentalist Carsten Nicolai has released two instalments in his Xerrox album series as Alva Noto. These have been interspersed with other albums, but Nicolai is now ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto are set to compose the score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s upcoming adventure epic “The Revenant.” “The Revenant,” which has been publicly plagued by production problems, ...

It's a rare occasion these days when a certain album manages to shake quietly the foundation of what music is and what it can be. It's very difficult to position an album that breaks all its ...

Alva Noto has released a beatless cover of The Cure’s ‘A Forest’, which you can hear above. The track originally featured on the band’s second album, Seventeen Seconds, with 2020 marking 40 years ...

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto have announced details of a seventh collaborative album, entitled Glass. The improvised album was recorded at Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut. The project ...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's new film The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a meditation on the unholy perserverance of the human soul. Yet its soundtrack—co-created by Japanese composer Ryuichi ...

The first of many things that surprised me at Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto’s Sydney Opera House show is the age diversity. I did stop for a moment and ask myself “am I in the right place?” But given ...

Alva Noto is the performing name of German electronic musician Carsten Nicolai whose work ranges from collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto (they wrote the score for the film The Revenant together) to ...

The National's Bryce Dessner and German electronic musician Alva Noto have joined Ryuichi Sakamoto in creating the score for Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming film The Revenant, as Resident ...