The Planets Isao Tomita "Mars..."

Segmento Final de "Mars: The Bringer of War"

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Film & Animation

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• Planets
• Isao
• Tomita
• Mars
• Electronic
• Music

[yamex5]

@Keyboardman88 Just to be fair, if you check the liner notes on the LP's, you'll see that he did use mellotrons and other polyphonic keyboards, but I'd say 2/3's of the instrumetation was done on his Moog. And some of the instruments are really multiple takes. Once again, if memory serves me right, some 'instruments' required up to 9 or 10 overdubs. It's also amazing how little hiss there is for all to overdubbing and bouncing of tracks, as there was only tape back then.

[silverstartrucker]

I bought this original album before Holst's Daughter got a court injunction to get it banned, she said that Tomita had destroyed her Father's music. The young man in the record shop said he was sorry but he couldn't find anything by any group called Tomato? I said Tomita you c--t. He looked shocked needless to say.

[volitronics]

I used to try to play along with this on my PAIA 4700 synth back in the day.

[Scifimaster92]

@yamex5 Precisely, because improper overdubbing can cause a piece to sound like the audio from "suicidemouse.avi."

(Just in case you don't know what that is, it was an experimental home-made horror film that appeared a few years ago, based around a distorted, looping clip of a sad-loking Mickey Mouse walking down a street.)

[robineva89]

I find that Tomita is a great companion when you are still, at 2AM, reading Cicero for an exam :). especially when the man is talking about how wonderful it would be to fly through space bodiless

[Perropery]

I have the old cassette of this. My mom didn't believe in mozart, she make heard this in my childhood

[weagley49]

GREAT!

[Keyboardman88]

@pekothedog The amazing thing about Tomita's earlier works..Planets and such..is that the Moog Synthesizers that he was using at the time were monophonic - you could only play one note at a time. Thusly, the orchestrations are multi tracked, one instrument at a time

[pekothedog]

@BaroqueTrancer

> Many people think he is not gifted

I used to play the synthesizer but I don't think he could create his sound without gift.

Actually, as long as I remember, some Japanese musicians who respected Tomita tried to simulate his sound, but they said "It was impossible..". See liner notes in Tomita's "Kaze no Matasaburo".

He is genius.

[jonathan84ization]

wow. star foxxxxxxxxxx

[zappersding]

@BaroqueTrancer Does it really matter?, classical artist's build there entire careers on playing other peoples works and bearing in mind that most of the composers did not play the instruments and are now dead. Only in the last 50 years with the singer/song writers are the composers expected to perform. Tomita should be seen just like any other artist, just because he uses a synthesizer in place of traditional instruments does not and should not make any difference to his brilliance.