John Cage is also emulated more conspicuously on the album's prepared piano pieces (particularly "Sonata," which sounds very much like Cage's fifth sonata for prepared piano which, as coincidence would also have it, was sampled on David Sylvian's "Pollen Path" from "Dead Bees on a Cake" featuring Sakamoto).
Most noticeably on the very French-like "Opus," "Lorenz and Watson," "Chanson," and the nearly Bach-like Chorales. Erik Satie, perhaps the single most influential composer on Sakamoto's piano style, can be heard all over the album. Yet rather than persuade with articulated opinions."BTTB" is nearly a tribute album to Sakamoto's classical influences. For this reason alone I'm deeply indebted to Sakamoto. "It's somewhat difficult to describe the impression "BTTB" made when I first listened to the album nearly two years ago, but in the very least I can say this: it was, at the time, my single inspiration for learning the piano and proved an accessible gateway into the music of Romantic and Contemporary Classical.
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