Had it not formed the lynchpin of our school music teacher's dastardly plan to sneak 'classical' music at us when we weren't looking, I'd never have heard this: he used to play it (quite loudly, as I recall) on the classroom record player.
Debussy played on a 'synthesiser'! That took up a whole room! Imagine!
Like my old man said - clever chaps, those Japanese.
Tomita - 'Snowflakes Are Dancing' (1974)
Tomita - 'Footprints In The Snow' (1974)
Wahay!! Davy's gone prog at last!!!
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You cheeky monkey.
ReplyDeleteVery squiddly diddly, like chilling with The Clangers
ReplyDeleteDid you get 'Footprints' too Mond? It's all drifting and moon-flecked; I went to sleep with it playing last night as the first snowflakes fell...
ReplyDeleteDamn I miss The Clangers.
Oh yes I got to it. I thought nothing was happening, then realised that was the point really.
ReplyDeleteCall an ambiance!
ReplyDeleteI thought from the record cover it might be Nimoy. I am unsure whether I am disappointed or not.
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It does look like him, doesn't it? Spock Sings Debussy - I wouldn't put it past him.
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose a young new wave hipster like you is familiar with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead but he's another Spock lookalike.
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ReplyDeleteHappy New year, Davy.
ReplyDelete-10°C up here last night. Beat that!
Big girls' blouses.
ReplyDeleteI slept in the shed last night.
(Not through choice, obviously).
Ah! But I actually left the kitchen window open last night. And we sleep in the next room with the door open...
ReplyDeleteIt is iced ajar like something out of Narnia still. I am just about to set about it with a hair dryer.
Can I use it when you've done, ib -need to snap the guinea pig off the hutch.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the cover face looks like Nimoy. It's a classy cover anyway. I'd hang that up on the wall.
ReplyDeleteHa! Dick Van Dyke, I really did laugh out loud when I read that retort. And then I thought: "He is joking, right ?"
ReplyDeleteThe window in here resembled the back of our fridge. We ought to have defrosted it well before Christmas, but it seemed like too much of a chore. The trick with the hair dryer worked alright. The bastard thing is sealed shut finally.
I'd love to sympathise but you know, I've had a trying day too.
ReplyDeleteI am to skiing as Natasha Richardson is to...
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Red Card!
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ReplyDeleteMy better half just gave me a hard time for that one, too.
To compound matters, I've yet to have a tipple.
Good post- a bit unexpected. Alan Freeman got me into Tomita on his Saturday afternoon Rock show. I have his Mussorgsky's Pictures at An Exhibition.
ReplyDeleteHeavy. I remember this being standard issue for hi-fi shop 'demos' at about the same time.
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