“Heartbeat” by Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian

"Heartbeat", or to give it its full name "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) – Returning to the Womb", reunited Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian on record in 1992, with Arto Lindsay sharing the music credit. The supporting cast is pure art-rock salon: Ingrid Chavez adds vocals, and John Cage, of all people, drops in with a spoken-word part.

Virgin issued it on a mini-album that also dusted off the pair's earlier team-up, the 1984 re-recording of "Forbidden Colours" that Steve Nye produced and that had backed Sylvian's single "Red Guitar". The song itself turns up on Sakamoto's album Heartbeat, in versions that differ from one pressing to the next, and on Sylvian's anthology A Victim of Stars 1982–2012.

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