Re: TOMita

bil
Wed, 25 Mar 98 10:44:47 -0000


>who ever heard of an electronic poneer from the seventies named Tomita.
>If any of you are cross listed to the idm or other electro list please
>cross post! I saw this guys album "the Planets" and may buyit as i
>need noodly noises for my illbient /trip hop sets. Of course a little
>Beaver and Krause is even better

I've been listening to Tomita stuff since the 70s, although not as much
these days. He did some great synthesizer stuff with classical music.
I've got about a half dozen of his albums on CD. He also used to do some
"spectacular" son et lumiere type shows outdoors, I guess. A great
recording of one is "Live at Linz." I'm not looking at my collection now
but, what do you want to know?

Also, someone earlier mentioned the Beaver & Krause stuff. I used to have
a B & K album back when it came out in the early 70s. It's long gone and
I hadn't thought of them until someone posted. All I can remember is that
they were electronic but I remember the album cover: a fish (?) in water
with tree reflections and ripples, sort of like an MC Escher etching. Is
that right? Long term memory is weird. What does their music sound like?
There was some other electronic stuff from that time that I had but can't
recall. This wasn't quite the early days of Moog but close. It was still
pretty experimental. Wish I had those old records.

bil
bdwyer@grove.ufl.edu