Synth.. Genius: Tomita (sda magic)

[Tony M]

My friend John came up to spend the day and brought some cd's to play. We had a great day and towards the end we put in his Isao Tomita's "Snowflakes are dancing" CD.

W:eek:W

Now I love ribbon sound and synthesizer type sounds and music. I just fell in love with the SDA sound presentation this year. This artists' music sounded like it was made for the SDAs.Kind of like Alan Parsons taken to a higher level.
Jan Hammer taken to a higher level but not to disrespect either of the just mentioned artists.

Here is a you tube link to give the ones who don't know this artist a taste of his sound style...I hope you enjoy this spacey style...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3wNCT4JAc&feature=related

[Lasareath]

Kind of reminds me of the soundtrack of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6C9u7ras

[Tony M]

That is one soothing sound track Lazareath.I could sleep to that one. I saved the link so I can watch the whole movie at a later time.;) I love Mother nature/ planet earth stuff and the coments read like something is going to happen toward the end of the movie.And not a good thing either.

Relatives are here for two weeks but I will def. watch that whole movie as some stated,"needs to be done" in the coments..

[George Grand]

When that Tomita stuff first came out in the 70's, the classical community was pretty up in arms already about Walter/Wendy Carlos, but this one pushed them over the edge. One reviewer stated "I Hope they put a McDonald's on Mount Fujiyama".

[Tony M]

I can sort-of understand their feelings.Like in the Movies, when someone does a remake of an old classic,it's like blassfemy to the critics.
I haven't been exposed enough to the original classical recordings to have the negative feelings towards Tomitas' renditions.
Now with classic movies, I could be a critic too.