![]() The Planets (also known as The Tomita Planets) ![]() Pictured left is the Japanese cover by animation legend Osamu Tezuka I first got the stereo 8-Track cartridge of this album! It includes the title track from Snowflakes Are Dancing as filler (due to the nature of 8-Track, a recording has to be broken up into 4 similar length "programs".) More recently the Debussy piece was added to the 2000 Snowflakes U.S. ![]() Night on Bare (Bald) Mountain is properly frenzied. The Firebird Suite is a little too massive for Tomita to cope with at this early date, but he still pulls off an imaginative interpretation. Includes the earlier made Debussy track Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. ![]() RCA AR*1-1312 -fill in the "*" with D=Quadradisc,L=LP, K=Cassette, S=8Track, T=Q8 Cartridge. The goofy Ballet of Chicks in Their Shells has become a staple of bad Kung Fu movies, so it's worn out it's welcome, but it's a riot on first listening. catalog number is 09026-63588-2 and it can be spotted by the large "High Performance" logos on the coverįirst rate and exciting interpretation of a great piece of music. Prelude the the Afternoon of a Faun from the album Firebird is included as a bonus on the remastered CD Still this version is quite available and inexpensive so its not that bad a deal. While Tomita did not supervise this release (or the earlier silver covered Dolby Surround re-releases for that matter), it is an improvement in sound quality over past CD editions in some technical respects but its also contreversal because the dynamic range is stretched so quiet moments are followed by piercingly loud passages (something that never happens in Debussy's work, neither Debussy nor Tomita are out to jolt people) Also while noise and distortion have been corrected in a manner, there is a degree of shrillness and muffling that the earlier noiser and distorted versions don't have (due in some respect I'm sure to the loud portions maxing out, the quiet parts not only quieter but processed further for perhaps overly agressive noise removal). in 2000 as part of RCA Red Seal's High Performance Classics. ISAO TOMITA SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING RARA PROBe warned, if you have a short attention span, you would be better off with the next album.Ī remastered Dolby Pro Logic surround edition came out in the U.S. Then again Tangerine Dream used plenty of Melotron in the mid 70s. For purists it is not synthesis (though effected by a synthesizer after the sound comes out). The Mellotron was a keyboard instrument that triggered a tape recording of an instrument for each key, sort of like sampling. His one "cheat" is that he extensively used Melotron to do choirs and strings instead of his large Moog Synthesizer. He tends to use sequencers on the complex parts (but it's done fluidly). ![]() He ushered in a whole new era in electronic sound and is IMHO the only artist besides Wendy Carlos to interpret classical music on the synthesizer with success. Snowflakes Are Dancing (Japan title: Clair de lune orĪR*1-0488 -fill in the "*" with D=Quadradisc, L=LP, K=Cassette, S=8Track,T=Q8 To Tomita's Soundtracks, Pop and self-composed Classical Works John Breslin has an English language board discussing Tomita at New Japanese 2004 remastered limited cardboard sleeve edition catalog numbers are in this color. Ward have put together a big unofficial site in English: Tomita: Isao Tomita - Classical Synth Albums Isao TomitaĪlbum at means I've listened to it, but don't own a copy ![]()
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