{"id":4243,"date":"2019-02-20T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fincamartelo.com\/2019\/02\/20\/the-perfect-music-for-a-meal-of-pure-martelosophy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:38:03","slug":"the-perfect-music-for-a-meal-of-pure-martelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fincamartelo.com\/en\/2019\/02\/20\/the-perfect-music-for-a-meal-of-pure-martelism\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect music for a meal of pure #Martelism"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”3899″ css=”.vc_custom_1540903344874{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”600px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]It\u2019s happened to all of us. You sit down to dinner in that restaurant everyone has spoken so highly of, ask for a glass of Martelo, order a couple of dishes… Everything points towards this turning into an unforgettable evening with your partner or friends, when suddenly you tune into the background music playing in the restaurant, and the moment is shattered completely.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s so loud that you can hardly enjoy the conversation, at other times the genre and the songs not only clash with each other, but are totally out of tune with the setting.<\/p>\n

Fed up with not being able to enjoy his meal because of the jarring<\/em> music, the renowned musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto decided to take matters into his own hands and create The Kajitsu Playlist<\/a><\/strong>. It\u2019s a playlist with the perfect music for his favourite restaurant, the Kajitsu, which serves vegetarian Shojin cuisine.<\/p>\n

Sakamoto, who is famous forcreating the music for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992<\/strong>, the soundtrack of The Last Emperor<\/em> and being a member of the band, Yellow Magic Orchestra, among other projects, doesn\u2019t usually make restaurant playlists but made an exception for Kajitsu.<\/p>\n

He liked the food they served in the restaurant so much that he couldn\u2019t stand the idea of it being paired with such bad music<\/strong>. \u201cWhen I come across music I don\u2019t like, normally I just leave, but the food in this restaurant is really something I like, and I have so much respect for their chef that I decided to do something\u201d, Sakamoto said in an interview for The New York Times.<\/p>\n

As soon as he got home, he sat in front of his computer and started to write an e-mail to the chef. \u201cI love your food, I respect you as a chef and I love this restaurant, but I hate the music. It\u2019s like the soundtrack to Trump Tower<\/em>\u201d, he commented in the e-mail. \u201cWho chose this? Who took the decision to come up with such a terrible mix? Let me do it\u201d, Sakamoto pleaded.<\/p>\n

Faced with such an unusual request, the restaurant owners decided to accept and Ryuichi Sakamoto got to work, with the help of Ruy Takahashi. That\u2019s how the terrible mix of Brazilian pop, American folk and jazz made way fora selection of songs with piano melodies in perfect harmony with the atmosphere<\/strong>, which you can enjoy on this Spotify playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n