perfectly captures the essence of the style Sakamoto settled upon inhis first solo record after battling throat cancer in 2015, is the sound of Sakamoto grappling with his own mortality: the title means ‘gone’ in Italian, and he believed at the time of writing that it might be his final release. “That’s why I tried to forget all the rules and forms,” he told the in 2017. “I thought this could be my last one, so I thought I should do everything that I wanted to do.”
