The first time I heard of this song was when it was used for a Mitsubishi cellphone ad a few decades ago. Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）was playing the piano most seriously when a cellphone had kept on ringing after which he stood up and gently asked for silence. Then, he provided the solution...a cellphone with a quieter vibration function.
As for the song itself, I just went "Yup...that's the Professor for you. Doing the avant-garde stuff again, I see." It was good ol' Sakamoto. It's titled "1919" and was so titled because it includes a speech by one Vladimir Lenin that had supposedly been given in the titular year. From what I can hear, it's Sakamoto providing some forceful and to-the-point piano with strings buzzing away incessantly. Not sure what it all means aside from speculating that it could have been describing Lenin's mood at the time.. The song itself was included as a track on the master's May 1996 album, logically titled "1996".
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