Album Details · Images



The album also features a previously unreleased (I think) work, 'One Night of the Milkyway Railroad', an original composition, which sounds like it could easily have belonged on the 'Kosmos' album. Also, there is a re-recorded version of 'La Cathédrale Engloutie', which was originally on 'Snowflakes Are Dancing', and a-side-and-a-half's worth of remixed pieces, in what Tomita calls 'Bi-phonic'. This sounds on vinyl like a kind of enhanced stereo, but the effect is not that pronounced.

Since the lavish packaging, with its gatefold sleeve and 12-page, LP-sized booklet, is entirely in Japanese, any more details are unavailable. It is clear from the Roman numeral listing in the booklet that the audio examples are explained at some length, as is 'Bi-phonic' sound; the only help for me is that the tracks are noted in English on the record labels themselves. Very frustrating - I can't afford a translator!

Wendy Carlos released a broadly similar album in 1987 called 'Secrets of Synthesis'. This album explained the principles of her approach, using her recorded work illustratively, in contrast to Tomita actually dissecting the work itself.



Album Details

Top of the Page

Catalogue Number

RVC-7564 / RVC-7565 (Double LP)

Label

RCA

Date Released

1977

Total Playing Time

Unknown

Tracks

Record 1: Coming into the Tomita Sounds
• Side A
  • Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 [Lever du Jour] <Ravel>
    
    1. Finished Version (1:08)
    2. Melody Line (8:16)
       Strings, Ensemble: Positioning of Sounds and the Wideness
    3. Describing Twittering Birds (2:18)
       Twitter-Perspective and Travel of Sounds
    4. Voicing of Choir (2:04)
       Mellotron: Non-Phase Wideness
    5. Arpeggio (2:46)
    6. Finished Version (1:07)
• Side B
  • A Rocket Heading for 'The Planets' <Holst>
    1. Countdown and Jet Propulsion (2:52)
    2. Countdown from the Control Tower (1:41)
    3. In the Cockpit and Jet Propulsion (7:41)
  • Concierto de Aranjuez [Opening Part] <Rodrigo>
    4. UFO Flies (2:34)
    5. UFO on 'Aranjuez' (1:05)
  • One Night of the Milkyway Railroad <Tomita> (10:10)
    The Eve of Centaur Festival, Pillar of the Weather Ring, Swan Station,
    The Shallow with Crystal Sands, Uncle Bird, Catch, The Scorpion in Red Flame
  • The Engulfed Cathedral [Excerpt from New Version] <Debussy> (1:01)

Record 2: Tomita Spreads Out in Bi-Phonic
• Side A
  1. Passepied [Suite Bergamasque No. 4] <Debussy> (3:18)
  2. Clair de Lune [Suite Bergamasque No. 3] <Debussy> (5:50)
  3. Arabesque No. 1 <Debussy> (3:59)
  4. Golliwog's Cakewalk [Children's Corner No. 6] <Debussy> (2:51)
  5. Pictures at an Exhibition [Excerpts Part One], Promenade,
     The Old Castle, Tuileries <Mussorgsky> (7:48)
• Side B
  • Pictures at an Exhibition [Conclusion], Ballet of the Chicks in their Shells
    The Hut of Baba Yaga; Great Gate of Kiev <Mussorgsky> (6:08)
  • Firebird Suite <Stravinsky> (25:51)

Images

Top of the Page

Previous Page

Back to Main Index

Biography · Images · Recordings · Concerts · Sounds · Sound Creature · Technology · Links