Kimba Symphonic Poem

--- In isaotomita at y..., markus.berzborn at t... wrote:
> I just wondered why this soundtrack is listed under "Unreleased"
> on www.isaotomita.net.

My guess is simply that it is so rare. I've been nuts for both Kimba
and Tomita since the mid '70s, and I only got a copy of this
recording a year or so ago. I don't know why it should be so rare.
It's had at least 2 LP releases and now 2 CD releases.

> I have nothing in English. This is really the most "japanese"
record in my
> collection. Even "Tomita" is not written out in latin letters.

Here's the small amount of information I have:
--from en.tezuka.co.jp:
Composition : Isao Tomita
Command : Hiroshi Ishimaru
Performance : A Japanese philharmonic symphony orchestra, a Japanese
chorus association
Recording engineer : Norio Okada
Original : Osamu Tezuka
Plan : Hidetoshi Kimura
Director : Eiichi Yamamoto, Tashiro "Ö–¤
--Track listing, machine-translated from the Nasu Fantasy site:
1Various ???
2Morning of a jungle
3Meeting of animals
4It returns and is a way.
5The hunter came!
6It is PANJA and burns. (Panja is the father lion)
7Joy of animals
8Caught ERAIZA (Eliza is the mother lion)
9Death of PANJA
10It is loaded on a ship. ("It" would refer to Eliza)
11Leo's ????? (Leo is Kimba; surely this title is "Leo's birth")
12Talk of ERAIZA
13The sea of ???
14Pleasant fish
15Eye ?????
16Mama who became a star (Eliza, killed during Track 13, appears in
the night sky)
17Africa could be seen!

The DVD with the animation designed to match the music can be ordered
from http://www.cdjapan.co.jp . (It's coded for Region 2 only.)