Roots

Roots

Original name	Roots
Release date	22 October 2022 (NFT) 16 November 2022 (CD)
Format	Album, NFT
Lost?	No

Roots, often stylized as Root(s), is an album by Osamu Sato released through Linen Records and The NFT Records. The title is inspired by Sato spending time in Kyoto, his birthplace, and reflecting on his ancestors there. The album features a vocal and mouth harp performance from Makigami Koichi of the band Hikashu, in addition to work from several of Sato's frequent collaborators. Two of the tracks on the album are remixes of songs sold in the LSD Transformed NFT collection.

An NFT version of the album dropped on October 22, 2022. It was limited to 100 units and included an original art montage.

Tracklist

Sad Sun (3:30)
33 Jazz Funk Greats (4:36)
Face To Face (3:30)
Kyoto Psycho (LSD TRANSFORMED) (4:34)
Minimal Monk (3:52)
Sun Flower (LSD TRANSFORMED) (5:10)
Samurai Guitar (3:44)
Sine Esperanto (4:06)
Electric Spaut (4:08)

CD bonus track

Nature (LSD TRANSFORMED) (3:23)

NFT bonus track

Violence Machine

NFTs

A series of five NFTs dropped on November 10, 2022, with exclusive tracks and art:

ROOTS CIRCLE BLUE
ROOTS SQUARE RED
ROOTS CIRCLE PINK
ROOTS SQUARE GREEN
ROOTS CIRCLE YELLOW

Trivia

"33 Jazz Funk Greats" is likely a reference to the Throbbing Gristle album "20 Jazz Funk Greats".

References

Music
1980s	Objectless (1983)
1990s	Music for Alphabetical Orgasm • Transmigration • The Esoteric Retina • Equal • Linen Sampler • LSD and Remixes • Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites
2000s	Aura 20/07/01
2010s	All Things Must Be Equal (TYO Edition) • Mono • Objectless (2017) • All Things Must Be Equal (BLN Edition) • All Things Must Be Equal (808 Mono Edition) • LSD Revamped
2020s	Grateful in All Things • I Dub You • Collected Ambient Grooves 1993-2001 • Done (Single) • Extra Sunrise/ 808 Ambient Mix • Transformed Collection • Bonus (Single) • Daimonji Espresso (Single) • Experimental Demo Tapes • LSD Transformed • Fax Factory (Yoshihiro Sawasaki Mix) • Roots • LSD Transformed New Fancy Tracks