Takemitsu Ondes Martenot electronic OST Legacy Future

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Toru Takemitsu: Legacy For The Future OST (1974 for Ondes Martenot and orchestra)




label & cat. no.:
NHK MEF 6001 pressed in:
Japan date:
1977 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: ex+ (couple of tiny faint scuffs, looks barely played)
Cover: vg+ (light wear, small sticker residue spot on front) description:
Ultra rare soundtrack to a 1974 Japanese television documentary series featuring the Ondes Martenot early electronic instrument, one of the toughest to find Martenot recordings in existence! This is a great, strange and brooding soundtrack with avant garde and world music touches, with the Martenot often the lead voice. The Ondes Martenot early electronic keyboard instrument was invented in 1928 with a design based on the Theremin but with added glissando and vibrato sound-shaping controls giving it a unique sonority and reverberation; it has been famously used by sonic experimenters like Radiohead, Zappa, Varese, Scelsi, Messiaen, etc. Includes beautiful illustrated insert booklet with Japanese notes.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Takemitsu was trained as a guitarist, earned praise and encouragement from Stravinsky early in his career, and became influenced by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Webern, Messiaen, and Debussy; his compositions combined traditional Japanese music with avant garde western techniques such as electronic music, indeterminacy, graphic notation, and serialism, he is associated with the school of early electronic composers in Japan that included Yuji Takahashi, Makoto Moroi, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Minao Shibata, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Michael Ranta, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and he scored dozens of films working with legendary Japanese directors Masaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Masahiro Shinoda, and Akira Kurosawa. This lp should be of interest to fans of electronic film music composers like Tangerine Dream, Piero Umiliani, Gil Melle, Oskar Sala, Cecil Leuter/Roger Roger, Jean Michel Jarre, Nino Nardini, Giampiero Boneschi, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Giorgio Moroder, Ennio Morricone, Vangelis, and Eduard Artemiev, other composers who have experimented with the ondes Martenot like Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Andre Jolivet, Jacques Ibert, John Donald Robb, Rod McKuen, Darius Milhaud, Karel Goeyvaerts, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Arthur Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Claude Vivier, and Pierre Boulez, and early electronic instruments and performers like John Eaton and the Syn-Ket, Robert Moog, Donald Buchla/Morton Subotnick, Clara Rockmore, Miklos Rosza, the Ondioline, the trautonium, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, the ARP, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, and Hugh Le Caine. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, audiophile, 20th century classical, soundtracks, poetry/spoken word, space age pop, and artist records. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for 1-2 single records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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