Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing (Audio slideshow)

[sew6666]

Brilliant job! My girlfriend in Hunter College was a d.j. on their radio station , this was like 1977- I got it on vinyl... Debussy plus Tomita; this must've had 'purists' cringing. 'Engulfed Cathedral' et al- simply unforgetttable. Thanks, again for superb editing!

[briansamantha16]

have all his Music and tangeren dream, pink floyd,all the best

[detroit1701]

I am 43 years old. My Dad used to listen to this when I was a kid. I am glad I rediscovered this in middle life!

[rikflair]

@detroit1701 I am in the same boat. I am 42 and remember my Dad buying all his albums. Youtube is great, because it lets us go back to great memories.

[graymancharge]

@detroit1701

im 32, and have the exact same story. so glad im not the oldest person to rediscover this, after a childhood of saturation

[jwades77]

nice!

[LadyNightshayde9]

This song brings back such happy memories of my hippie days. I absolutely love it!

[MRNzgamer]

crap...crap where does this asshole get his crap from bahahaha

[shaltreas]

小室哲哉氏が逮捕された時に「いったい、シンセサイザーってなん­だろう？」と思い、調べて偶然冨田氏の偉大な足跡を知ったのが…­…あの事件の時ですから、もう約5年前ですか。

当時、僕はまだ中学一年生でした。いくつかの曲に触れ少なからず­感銘を受けましたが、当時は芸術への渇望もなく、魔力的とは言え­ファジーでドギツさのないこの音楽は長い間僕の中で存在をそれ以­上大きくすることがありませんでした。

ですが、自分の感性をもっともっと磨きたい、そのためにもっとも­っと素晴らしい音楽に触れたいと切に願うようなった今、ふと氏の­名前を思い出し、今そのシンセサイザー音楽デビューアルバムの表­題曲にしてファーストインプレッションのこの曲に辿りつきました­。

迷わず、CDを発注しました。

40年も昔にこれほど未来的なサウンドで世界的名声を得た日本人­の先達がいらしたことを、強く誇りに思います。

[gabi111el]

La realtà è solo un'illusione, ma una illusione perpetua formulazione è spesso problema più fondamentale è trovare una soluzione. - che possono dipendere da abilità matematiche o clinici Vishinsky coincidenza è il modo di Dio di rimanere anonimo??..

[manmangee]

Fantastic!

An amplified rendition from original music.

This is the best of his works, I believe.

[pamefra]

wow... what a trip. I used this piece of music for one of my early choreographic attempts in college in the late 80's... and it just popped on in the Ryuichi Playlist. Wild! love it...

[KingHopeMusic]

I come here...to get my...Tomita..."fix". Often!!! ~♫ KK

ps..ok...and maybe a little Jools "fix" too....ok? hahahaha

[petermcintyre100]

I saw him perform in a one off special, at the Hammersmith Odeon London, way back in 1975. The stage was covered in banks of gadgets with lights & knobs. All in Quadraphonic sound. He's only comments all night were, Hello & Good Bye.....It's the sort of music to listen to by oneself, enabling you to embrace the sounds in your own personal way, which you would not do in an auditorium.

[thesunreport]

@petermcintyre100 ..wow that sounds cool, but yeah I see your point...great memory! : )

[kevbot71]

I remember in high school ( late 80's) I was all about the metal but I had this fascination with 70's synthesizer music and this was one of my fav albums

[JokiTapio]

Tantastic - Thanks !!!!

[tongapuss]

This is music that my Husband and I discovered together when we were young. I loved all Tomita stuff while he went mad on Tangerine Dream. Gosh music was so different then, all new types coming out like Jean Michelle Jarre, Tomita, Alan Parsons, some wonderful music came out of those 70s and 80s.

[IkeEnwright]

Love this album. Highly underrated at the time. Sure has stood up through the years. Excellent post!

[jcmegabyte]

Nice show! :-)

[jonycuddlesgert]

Reeeely NICE. ... ARTful! ... OhWow!, I feel like I'm back in MINNESOTA when I watch your lovely Video.  Thankyou kindly. =jonycuddlesgert

[KingHopeMusic]

Imagine... this was BEFORE polyphonic synths.... Tomita had to painstakingly record most of this one note at a time!!! The only polyphonic instrument at his disposal back then was the Mellotron... which he seldom used. One note at a time. Utterly amazing!! ~KK

[duxberry1958]

shit not heard this in years hav to LP

[oybay]

Still an amazing piece.

[DannyNewman]

My dad had this album and I grew up listening to it and it gave me an appreciation for classical music, it inspired me to listen to Debussy's works as they're meant to be heard. Along with Mussorgsky, Holst, Stravinsky and all the other composers Tomita synthesised. I still remember the first time I heard Tomita's version of Pictures at an Exhibition... the Great Gate of Kiev is awesome!!!

[tongapuss]

I remember my Husband and I were so excited when we bough this album and we almost wore it out. We split up though and he has now passed on, always think of him when I look at this.

[vegetablepatches]

just found a vinyl of the debussy collection by tomita in my house, absolutely blown away. shocked to read that he was before jean michelle jarre though.

[fatcats1000]

Culinary of Arts music. This music can really make me cook some real Japanese cuisine!

[takaomurasako]

この画像を1年中見ています。夏の季節には、暑さを忘れて、今の­冬の季節には、雪国のことを憂い、季節を通して様々な思いに耽っ­ています。

[natalydad2]

I've used to hear that kind of electronic music, Tomita and Walter Carlos were my favorite electronic musicians, now there are others, thanks for share, my old 33 disc is old and noisy.

[yourforte]

Great interpretation of Debussy.

[delusch16]

This is the cut that had me buying everything he had made. It is still my favorite!

[darinnear]

My Father turned me on to Tomita. Tomita was dedicated to his Art.

[VladtheEmailer]

Actually, I think you should use this slide show for "Footprints in the Snow" from the same album. This song " The Snow is Dancing," is about "falling" snow flakes, sometimes swilrled by the wind, sometimes falling steadily down. However it's a great job!

[joolslee08]

That's a fair point now you mention it lol ... thanks for your comment :o)

[teamcrumb]

@VladtheEmailer yes it is about snow falling . . . the thing is the person making the video can actually choose what ever pictures they wish, it doesn't matter if its not meticulously adjacent to the music

[VladtheEmailer]

@teamcrumb Yep that's true. What pictures would you choose? Would they be snow? rain? sunshine? dandruff? ;-)

[teamcrumb]

@VladtheEmailer er, i grew up with dennis potter tv series scaring the crapola out of me when I was a kid, dark human stickiness unfolding as innocuous tunes about bluebirds sitting on silver-linings played on. My dad is a mike Oldfield freak, i used to imagine visuals to tubular bells (lights, galaxy swirl, then ameoba wiggles, then fish rolling onto land ( a bit like all that basic genesis bit of Disney's Fantasia but everthing was drawn in neon and kind of like russian folk art)

[VladtheEmailer]

@teamcrumb Yes~! I am still a Mike Oldfield freak, even prior to Tubuler Bells being used in the Exorcist! It was the same year that NyQuil Cold medicine came out. I had the flu, took Nyquil, went to bed with the radio on, and it just so happened that they were playing that whole album on the radio. I think I might have seen god! LOL Anyway, my friends and I would sit and listen to this Tomita album and make up storylines a la Fantasia to each song! I totally understand you! ;-)

[teamcrumb]

@VladtheEmailer but the the things that could fit to this album, its could be Dave in 2001 a space oddyssy, being in that room at the end, or the Mr Men burning down the houses of parliament, or biscuits smiling, the list is long

[VladtheEmailer]

@teamcrumb My God it's full of stars!

[PrZemek44]

@VladtheEmailer Wow, I would like to know the (musical) difference between falling, swirling and... what, ascending? Flakes of snow... :))

You, Yankee, wannabe sophisticates are... preeecious...

At least tell us you were drunk writing this... And we're having a good laugh together now.

Cheers

[koaftder]

first cd i ever heard. probably like in 1992 or something.

[1stringtheory]

Remember hearing this on the local L.A. classical station

when first released. I freaked then went and bought the vinyl. Wore it out. Bought it again. Lost it then bought the CD. His Clare De Lune version is an all time favorite of mine. Thanks!!

[takaomurasako]

音質、映像共に最高です。次回は、バミューダトライアングルをお­願いします。

[ShockBrotherStudios]

My god! The flashbacks....I was so young...haven't heard this since my father (the high powered mutant never meant for mass production) played it on vinyl....WICKED!! :)

[CASEDILLA]

:) I remember listening to this on vinyl when I was young too. My parents and I would hide under this wool blanket and kick our feet to make sparks as this played in the background.

[ShockBrotherStudios]

That sounds like fun!!

[alxlaw]

have the album on 12" and cd....... my earliest memory's are interspersed with this music, my dad was one for 'different' - fairly epic!

[lanceroapacheanzures]

aLGUIEN ME PUEDE DECIR QUE PASO CON EL MAESTRO TOMITA¡

[betyblues]

existe este disco en cd????

[amantedejanis]

toda la producciín de tomita se remasterizó y se pasó al formato de cd. Te recomiendo que busques el cd spacewalk, donde viene éste y otros grandes temas recreados por Tomita. Suerte y mucho éxito. P.D. me puedes avisar si lo encuentras?

[Doctorsol666]

Simplemente hermoso

[mitulina]

many many thanks!!!!!!

[titatus08]

excelente trabajo.

[tutv1980]

Nice.

[Jasenspeed401]

Very Nice! Thank you for making this.

[roberts698]

excellent, thankyou

[axwhale]

Some great shots fantastic loved it.