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“Bamboo Houses” is a song by Japanese musician-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on Virgin Records in 1982. The double A-side single “Bamboo Houses”/“Bamboo Music” was the first solo project by Sylvian, released while he was still a member of the band Japan. It was the second collaboration between the two, the first being the track “Taking Islands in Africa” on the 1980 Japan album Gentlemen Take Polaroids which featured Sakamoto on keyboards. The “Bamboo Houses” single in turn featured drums by Japan member Steve Jansen, who also appeared in the promo video, and was co-produced by Steve Nye. Similarly, Sakamoto was still a member of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra at the time, though he had already done some previous solo... Read on...