Brian Close: Around 2020, my wife was cooking at a friend’s house in New York City. She was making vegetable gyoza. There was a mistake with the wrapper, and somehow she managed to make my favourite gyoza I ever had, using wonton skins, tahini, chilli and maple syrup. The whole time she was cooking, I was sitting at a table, just me and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and he had this tiny Bluetooth speaker. He kept playing me this album. I had heard it many times at my studio, Georgia, but something touched me about him playing it to me. Hauntingly beautiful.
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
