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"Bamboo Houses"

Single by Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian

A-side

"Bamboo Music" (double A-side)

Released

23 July 1982

Recorded

1982

Genre

Length

4:13

Label

Virgin

Songwriter(s)

Ryuichi Sakamoto
David Sylvian

Producer(s)

Ryuichi Sakamoto singles chronology

"Front Line"
(1981)

"Bamboo Houses"
(1982)

"Forbidden Colours"
(1983)

David Sylvian singles chronology

"Bamboo Houses"
(1982)

"Forbidden Colours"
(1983)

Alternative cover

"Bamboo Houses" is a song by Japanese musician-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on Virgin Records in 1982. It reached number 30 in the UK charts in the second week of August 1982.

The double A-side single "Bamboo Houses"/"Bamboo Music" was the first solo project by Sylvian, released while he was still a member of the band Japan. It was the second collaboration between the two, the first being the track "Taking Islands in Africa" on the 1980 Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids which featured Sakamoto on keyboards. The "Bamboo Houses" single in turn featured drums by Japan member Steve Jansen, who also appeared in the promo video, and was co-produced by Steve Nye. Similarly, Sakamoto was still a member of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra at the time, though he had already done some previous solo work.

In 1983 Sylvian and Sakamoto would team up again on "Forbidden Colours", the theme song to the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, along with several other projects in later years.

A remix of "Bamboo Houses" was included on David Sylvian's career retrospective Everything and Nothing in 2000 and A Victim of Stars 1982–2012 in 2012.

Track listings

Composed and arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian

UK 7" single with gatefold sleeve, Virgin Records VS 510

"Bamboo Houses" (7" Edit) – 4:13
"Bamboo Music" (7" Edit) – 4:40

UK 12", Virgin Records VS 510-12

"Bamboo Houses" – 5:26
"Bamboo Music" – 5:38

Critical reception

Smash Hits reviewer David De Lisle wrote: "An enterprising project, a stunning sleeve, two talented performers from interesting bands... This should have been single of the forthnight. In fact it's disappointing, a double A-side that are really two slow and offbeat LP tracks."^[1]

Chart positions

Chart (1982)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)^[2]	30

Personnel

Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, programming, MC4, marimba, spoken word (on "Bamboo Houses")
David Sylvian – keyboards, programming, vocals
Steve Jansen – percussion instruments, electronic percussion

Production

Ryuichi Sakamoto – producer
David Sylvian – producer, mix, cover design & layout
Steve Nye – producer, sound engineer, mix
Yasushi Handa – cover photography
Yoshi Ueda – cover photography

References

^ "Singles". Smash Hits 5-18 August 1982. p. 21.
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-05-06.

External links

Bamboo Music – Promo video for Bamboo Music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Studio albums

Solo	Thousand Knives B-2 Unit Esperanto Futurista Neo Geo Beauty Heartbeat Sweet Revenge 1996 BTTB Chasm Async 12

Collaborations	Summer Nerves Vrioon A Day in New York Insen Cendre utp_ Summvs Flumina

Extended plays

Live albums

Compilations

Tokyo Joe
Async – Remodels

Soundtracks

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

Songs

Filmography

Related artists

David Sylvian

Studio albums

Remix albums

Compilations

Singles

Japan

Studio albums	Adolescent Sex Obscure Alternatives Quiet Life Gentlemen Take Polaroids Tin Drum Rain Tree Crow
Live albums	Oil on Canvas
Compilation albums	Assemblage Exorcising Ghosts The Very Best of Japan

Nine Horses

Snow Borne Sorrow
Money for All

with Ryuichi Sakamoto

with Holger Czukay

with Russell Mills

Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory

with Robert Fripp

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