A penchant for avant-garde and improvisation had gotten Sakamoto interested in electronic music early on. Thousand Knives took several months to record as Sakamoto would be busy during the day with his session work and would only record at night.
With Kick IIIII, Arca focusesentirely on quieter ambient pieces, mainly on piano, plucked strings and swirling pads. Famed Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto makes a guest vocal appearance on "Sanctuary".
Various artists musically interpret poems from "The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-1971" on this 40th Anniversary Tribute to Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America.