Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

The older I get, the more new age I find myself listening to. I've found a few Tomita records on my sojourns into the world, and they're always a welcome addition to my collection. "Snowflakes Are Dancing" was Tomita's first record to get released outside Japan, his first release on RCA Red Seal, and the first of his five 70s records adapting classical music for the synthesizer. Here, it's Claude Debussy, channeled into quadraphonic Moog. It's just great stuff.

For dorks only: this was ripped from the 1991 CD reissue, produced with Dolby Surround encoding. So, you know, if you still have a hi-fi, feel free to get real loud and blow this out. The later editions have some corny looking artwork that I can do without; honestly, I'd prefer a color scheme on this one that was more in line with the aquas and greens present in the original 1974 art. But if you want to get really buck wild, Music On Vinyl released a 180g reissue of this earlier this year, featuring the original record on crystal clear & white marbled vinyl. It looks pretty sweet, and I'm sure sounds the same.

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