Tomita ?– Snowflakes Are Dancing Vinyl LP ORIGINAL RCA RED SEAL Record
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LP housed in a company catalog poly lined dust sleeve with releases. Dynaflex Label
"The Newest Sound Of Debussy" "Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings". (C)+(P) RCA Records, New York
The use of the term tone paintings here describes the nature of a large portion of Debussy's work which was concerned with mood and colour, eschewing traditional tonality in favour of constructions such as the full-tonal scale, parallel chords, bitonality, and to a certain extent atonality, in order to achieve a greater degree of musical expression not allowed by strict adherence to a single key. Thus, the term tone painting is quite appropriate, in that Debussy's compositions often experimented with a much broader palette of tones, allowing each to behave similar to a colour within an illustration.
The album is considered an early example of proto-synthpop. It sparked a "revolution in synthesizer programming" which it was responsible for taking to new heights. The album's contributions to electronic music included an ambience resembling a symphony orchestra, the use of reverberation, the use of phasing and flanging to create a spatial audio effect with stereo speakers, electronic surround sound using four speakers, realistic string simulations, portamento whistles, and abstract bell-like sounds created using ring modulation. A particularly significant achievement was its polyphonic sound, which was created without the use of any polyphonic synthesizers (which were not yet commercially released). Tomita created the album's polyphonic sounds by recording selections one part at a time, taking 14 months to produce the album. The modular human whistle sounds used would also be copied in the presets of later electronic instruments.
The track "Arabesque No. 1" was used from 1976 to 2011 as the theme music for the PBS astronomy-based program Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler (later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer); however, its use as the theme was discontinued when the show was revamped as Star Gazers. In Japan during the late 1970s, parts of the track "Reverie" were used for the opening and closing of Fuji Television's transmissions.
Label: RCA Red Seal ?– ARL1-0488 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Indianapolis Pressing Country: US Released: 1974 Genre: Electronic, Classical Style: Modern Classical, Modern
Tracklist
A1 Snowflakes Are Dancing (Children's Corner, No. 4) 2:10 A2 Reverie 4:44 A3 Gardens In The Rain (Estampes, No. 3) 3:41 A4 Clair De Lune (Suite Bergamasque, No. 3) 5:48 A5 Arabesque No. 1 3:57
B1 The Engulfed Cathedral (Preludes, Book I, No. 10) 6:18 B2 Passepied (Suite Bergamasque, No. 4) 3:17 B3 The Girl With The Flaxen Hair (Preludes, Book 1, No. 8) 3:25 B4 Golliwog's Cakewalk (Children's Corner, No. 6) 2:50 B5 Footprints In The Snow (Preludes, Book I, No. 6) 4:30
Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis Phonographic Copyright (p) – RCA Records Copyright (c) – RCA Records
Arranged By, Performer – Isao Tomita* Art Direction – J. J. Stelmach Artwork [Cover] – David B. Hecht Composed By [Original] – Debussy* Photography By [Liner Photo] – Tomoki Sato Producer – Plasma Music, Inc.
LP housed in a company catalog poly lined dust sleeve with releases.
This version was pressed by RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis IN [identified by a capital I stamped into its runouts / dead wax].
"The Newest Sound Of Debussy" "Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings". (C)+(P) RCA Records, New York
Dynaflex Label
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