Japanese music

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 06/10/11 22:46, Dave S wrote:
> On 05/10/11 22:31, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:
>> Tomita
>
> YES with bells on! "Snowflakes Are Dancing" has blown my mind ever since I was a
> kid, and continues to do so every time I listen to it.
>
> It might actually be my favourite album of all time, though it's very hard for
> me to ever say that without any ifs and buts because I like so much music, but
> essentially, it's the winner. :-)
>
> (I plan to go out to "Clair De Lune" as the final tune at my funeral, that's how
> good it is.)

Clair de Lune is the single most influential piece of music I heard as a kid. 
And over time the Tomita version has begun to shape how I think about sound and 
its ability to become music without effort. Probably because Tomita's sounds are 
so like the natural sound of old radios, which I was listening to (and 
occasionally building) when I was also learning the piano. More abstract sonic 
explorations have led me back to this same language of harmonic change through 
timbre, which Tomita used in ways Debussy and Bach could not, but with maybe 
equal musical understanding.

Tony (HB)