Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Snow Business



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)

22 comments:

  1. Wahay!! Davy's gone prog at last!!!

    Word verification: turdo

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  2. Very squiddly diddly, like chilling with The Clangers

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  3. Did 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...

    Damn I miss The Clangers.

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  4. Oh yes I got to it. I thought nothing was happening, then realised that was the point really.

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  5. I thought from the record cover it might be Nimoy. I am unsure whether I am disappointed or not.

    haha word verification: rearie

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  6. It does look like him, doesn't it? Spock Sings Debussy - I wouldn't put it past him.

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  7. I 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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  8. Happy New year, Davy.

    -10°C up here last night. Beat that!

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  9. Big girls' blouses.
    I slept in the shed last night.
    (Not through choice, obviously).

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  10. Ah! But I actually left the kitchen window open last night. And we sleep in the next room with the door open...

    It is iced ajar like something out of Narnia still. I am just about to set about it with a hair dryer.

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  11. Can I use it when you've done, ib -need to snap the guinea pig off the hutch.

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  12. I don't think the cover face looks like Nimoy. It's a classy cover anyway. I'd hang that up on the wall.

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  13. Ha! Dick Van Dyke, I really did laugh out loud when I read that retort. And then I thought: "He is joking, right ?"

    The 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.

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  14. I'd love to sympathise but you know, I've had a trying day too.

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  15. I am to skiing as Natasha Richardson is to...

    skiing.

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  16. Indeed.

    My better half just gave me a hard time for that one, too.

    To compound matters, I've yet to have a tipple.

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  17. 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.

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  18. Heavy. I remember this being standard issue for hi-fi shop 'demos' at about the same time.

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