New W. Orbit CD

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I was wondering when somebody was going to compare
Orbits' latest offering to Tomita.
Although I liked his 'Strange Cargo' series, I'm
afraid this collection is rather flat and dull.
He doesn't use the palette of colours that Tomita
uses, but what really irritates me is the way
the media thinks this is the coolest thing thats happened
to Classical music for a long time. Don't they realise
that what Orbit is doing, Tomita did over 25 years ago.
Sorry just my personal opinion.
Incidentally for all Synth lovers Wendy Carlos has a
4-CD box set out now of her early Switch-On series.
Well worth an investment for the booklet enclosed
let alone the new digitally re-mastered works.

Dave Bassett


-----Original Message-----
From: John Breslin [mailto:cloud at eircom.net]
Sent: 10 February 2000 10:39
To: Isao Tomita Mailing List
Subject: OT: New W. Orbit CD


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Has anyone tried this? I saw on the sleeve (even though all I have is the
latest single) that he has done Ravel's Pavane for an... - wonder how it
compares to the Tomita version.

J.
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John Breslin
cloud at inniu.com
http://www.inniu.com/cloud/


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"Bassett, David" wrote:
>
> Isao Tomita Mailing List - http://listen.to/tomita/
>
> I was wondering when somebody was going to compare
> Orbits' latest offering to Tomita.
> Although I liked his 'Strange Cargo' series, I'm
> afraid this collection is rather flat and dull.
> He doesn't use the palette of colours that Tomita
> uses, but what really irritates me is the way
> the media thinks this is the coolest thing thats happened
> to Classical music for a long time. Don't they realise
> that what Orbit is doing, Tomita did over 25 years ago.
> Sorry just my personal opinion.

Its your duty to write whatever magazine hypes it as being such an
innovation

I haven't heard it, but it proves how few people, even respected ones
can pull off solid synth renditions of
classical music. I've not gotten around to Klaus Schulze's one, but no
one says its good.

Isn't someone well known doing Beethoven right now, or is that Orbit?

I know Tangerine Dream announced an album of classical renditions. I
listened to that Art of Noise hommage to Debussy album at the CD shop.
It didn't seem like something I'd want to listen to repeatedly, like the
narration is interesting one time around but over and over??

I listened to a recent CD of Sugaru Matsutani doing a half album of Bartok
http://warp.on.arena.ne.jp/matsutani_top.htm
Can't reccomend it though. He falls into the trap of ROM wave sounds


Hopefully Tomita can reinforce his position as the master of this kind
of recording.

He did clearly state to me last year that he isn't making classical
synth albums because the CD Labels don't want to release any (and of
course they take months of work). Fortunately there is much interest in
his own compositions so he's not lacking in creative outlets.

nick
who's arranging to do a Moog and modular synth album later to see which
of my theories work


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