He simply said:
-Ho, this guy is from japan an make electronic music. pick it, because you not gonna find it twice.
Fair enough I said, paid and go my merry way. What I didn't know is, this is not simply a D-j. or an electronic band. It's literally Classical music re-orchestrated with electronic instrument. We speaking of an album from 1976, those are digital effect! I can only imagine the wall of wires and electronic boards to make those song.
The first side is simply surreal and to be honest, it creep me out. With the not so great quality of my used album, the first act of Firebird Suite (composition of Stravinsky) make me feel like I put a cursed record in my turntable. It got me some chill in the neck, but I loved it. I was fascinated and had question piled up in my mind. Who's that guy? Is this ment to be for a movie or something? why doing classical music in electronic?
First, his name is Isato Tomita, from Tokyo. He created music from 1972 to 2016 util he die at the age of 84. He was an compositor and interpret of this specific kind of music. Searching on Wikipedia, I found that is his sixth album, and no, this one is not a soundtrack or anything. He was a graduated classical compositor when he got inspired by the album Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos... and this is where all begin.
The Alum
Generally, I pick 3 songs from an album and debate around it, but the album is technically 3 songs... The first song is the whole side A. It's Firebird Suit and it's a 4 part song who could technically be counted as different song, but the album have no pose between every part. On the side B, we have Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun by Debussy, a 10 minutes song, followed by the 13 minutes song A Night On Bare Mountain by Moussorgsky. Each of them are brillant reinterpretation in electronic instrument, more precisely, a MOOG Synthesizer, a couple of mixer, around 5 Tape corder and a big bunch of accessory.
Since it's quite impossible to found those song's separately, I (for this one) will link the whole album.
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First, his name is Isato Tomita, from Tokyo. He created music from 1972 to 2016 util he die at the age of 84. He was an compositor and interpret of this specific kind of music. Searching on Wikipedia, I found that is his sixth album, and no, this one is not a soundtrack or anything. He was a graduated classical compositor when he got inspired by the album Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos... and this is where all begin.
The Alum
Generally, I pick 3 songs from an album and debate around it, but the album is technically 3 songs... The first song is the whole side A. It's Firebird Suit and it's a 4 part song who could technically be counted as different song, but the album have no pose between every part. On the side B, we have Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun by Debussy, a 10 minutes song, followed by the 13 minutes song A Night On Bare Mountain by Moussorgsky. Each of them are brillant reinterpretation in electronic instrument, more precisely, a MOOG Synthesizer, a couple of mixer, around 5 Tape corder and a big bunch of accessory.
Since it's quite impossible to found those song's separately, I (for this one) will link the whole album.
Overall, I give it a 7 out of 10. It's surprising and interesting, but there is few parts that I simply didn't like it... ...not something big, it's just that some few parts of those songs could have been played with a bit more of bass or else. He was probably at the maximum that he could do with the technologie of this time.
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