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Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
Isao Tomita was one of the great pioneers of electronic music in the mid 1970's and 1980's. Here are some of Tomita's best arrangements - of particular interest Debussy and Holst's The...
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲 Tomita Isao, 22.4.1932 – 5.5.2016) Studio album: Switched on Rock (1972) (as Electric Samurai) Snowflakes Are Dancing (1974) US #57 Can...
May 12, 2016 · Released by RCA in 1974, the resulting recording, “ Snowflakes Are Dancing ,” brought Mr. Tomita — who died on May 5, at 84, and was widely considered the father of Japanese electronic music ...
Isao Tomita (冨田 勲, Tomita Isao, 22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016), often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.
Isao Tomita was born in Tokyo in 1932, and at the age of three moved to China with his father, where he remained for five years before returning to Japan. As a student he took private lessons in composition, orchestration and theory while reading art history at Keio University in Tokyo.
Jul 24, 2021 · A new album, Rising Planet – Tomita’s Greatest Works of Space Music, doesn’t fix that, but it at least makes some of his best tracks available to a new generation. The album brings together tracks from seven albums that were released on the Nippon Columbia DENON label in the last five years of Tomita’s life.
May 17, 2016 · Digging through an abandoned collection of cassettes in a cool aunt's bedroom, I stumbled upon the opaque blue cover of Japanese synth pioneer Isao Tomita's Snowflakes Are Dancing.
Isao Tomita, the synthesizer pioneer who composed the score for Tezuka Osamu's anime 'Kimba the White Lion' and NHK drama 'Hana no Shogai,' died of heart failure Thursday at Tokyo Metropolitan ...
Pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita bridged the gap between note-by-note classical/electronic LPs like Switched-On Bach and the more futuristic, user-friendly interfaces developed in the 1970s.
