Isao Tomita - A Night on Bare Mountain
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- I was surprised to see that this one has not been uploaded to RUclips yet. I see most of Isao Tomita's music but remarkably absent was A Night on Bare Mountain from the Firebird album in 1975 or '76. This is probably because the song is 13 minutes long and RUclips usually limits people to 10. A while back I had re-mastered this one and cut it down to 10 minutes due to an accessively drawn out last 3 minutes. So, it fits here on RUclips like this. Sorry for the hard core Tomita fans who want those last 3 minutes. And my apologies as well for the major hiccup at 2:54. I have no idea why that's there. Something happened while transcoding onto RUclips. That's not on the copy I uploaded. But DEFINATELY beam this to your TV or major sound system wherever it is in your house or computer or headphones and crank it up! I rendered this with a very high audio bitrate and it seems to have come through really well on audio. The video capture is the iTunes visualizer which seems to have been made for this kind of music. Anyone curious, that was a 10 minute, 5.5 gigabyte FRAPS HD capture.
This of course is a highly unusual rendition of Night on Bare Mountain or Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorsky. You likely remember this piece from Fantasia by Disney. Here it is performed by Isao Tomita way back in the 70's with absolutely no digital interface. Amazing when you listen to it. He was using what's called a MOOG synthesizer which was completely analog, full of tubes! Then rendered onto tape! And no computer. Can you imagine the nightmare such a thing would have been back then? Now of course a regular Yamaha keyboard can multitrack and computer editors give someone with musical talent the ability to do such a thing. But still, not quite that MOOG sound!
I hope this finds all the Tomita fanatics who have been looking for it here. It didn't get a copyright violation so I'll try to leave it up as long as I can. Sorry to my regular subscribers who are wondering if I've gone crazy posting such a thing. I'm into classical music. I also like wierd music.
I have the original album on vinyl. My friends at the time thought I was crazy liking this electronic re-interpretation of classical music. I had no idea Tomita was so respected. I thought it was just me who GOT the fact that this was an incredible undertaking with the technology of the day. Here we are in 2012 and it still works.
Bought and listened to all of Tomitas albums as they came out in the 70`s,early 80`s....thank you so much Tomita -san.....rest in peace
Tomita was such a great electronic musician!He is missed a lot in America! 🎹🇺🇸❤
This is the first classical concert that I saw at the primary school, I loved it.
How was your relationship with your mother?
I still have a few Isao Tomita album’s in my album case.I bought my last Tomita album when I was married in a Las Vegas,Nevada record store.He was a 👍 great electronic musician!
When I left England 17 years ago I left behind a very comprehensive collection of Tomita vinyls. Now thanks to youtube I can still enjoy an evening of Tomita.
Thanks to all who took the time to post.
Love it, but that lonely whistle at the end is awsome. It always gets to me how beautifully Tomita captures this feeling in an electronic instrument. It's too bad RUclips has this time limitation.
ruclips.net/video/PfMmuryI9oY/видео.html
When I was 14 years old it was 1978 I was in Junior high - and while like most boys my age I was mostly exposed to pop and rock through my friends etc. But I found most music unsatisfying with the exception of reggae, but although I was exposed to a limited amount of it, The good stuff could only really be found in the Jamaican neighbourhood of town, and even then it was expensive, and so hard to come by. What I really craved, was something Original, a genre that I could sort of call my own. I did not want to be like everyone else when it came to Art and music, especially since I was not fulfilled with the mainstream crap for the most part. All that changed when, one day I was at a friend of my mothers this friend was an "Up Beat" hippie Bohemian Jewish Chick who worked for CBC Canada She had a huge diverse collection of vinyl records, I looked through them and Found this Tomita album called Fire Bird - I had never heard sounds like that in any music before and I was Sold. That started me on a path of Electronic music that continues to this day. Many Techno DJs today are great in their own right, and yet I'm blown away by the fact that Few have ever heard of Tomita - who's sounds would take even todays best techno to the next level if sampled. Tomita would have to have been a MASTER technician back in 70's as would Anyone - to have made the sounds he did - Never mind that he also cranked out Modern classical music with it.... Holy Nagasaki Batman !!
The Master
Mmk
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My Brother(in-law) he was my brother introduced me to the Planet Suite I was hooked The Absoulote Master
Aphex Twin and Isao Tomita, the greats of electronic music! IMO ofc :)
Tomita is the absolute master of this genre. Amazing when you consider his "limitations" back in the 70's/ Mono synths...maybe the odd mellotron...mostly good old mono "one note at a time" Moogs. Man..he must have done some painstaking multi tracking and track "bouncing". All with such incredible feel too!! Great post you have here. I have Clair De Lune up and running...another great track. Thanks for sharing! ~Kenneth St. King
Forty years listening to Isao Tomita, from vinyl to streaming vídeos... Thank you Master !!! R.I.P.
This is so cool! I played that in front of my school class when I held a speech about synthesizers. The Firebird suite and this one is a master piece of elaborated sound design and instrumentation. And it was 1976!! Mr. Isao Tomita - thank you!
heard that 35 years ago on the radio - since then I was looking for it! great!
When this album first came out I used to listen to it over and over again.
Tomita was way ahead of his time!
Thank you posting this.
I was listen this music first about 35 years ago. Hungarian Radio, Bartók channel, stereo. I was about 17 years old. I made a record with my casette player for CrO2 casette. On the second side was something from Vangelis :-) Opera sauvage. Maybe ... :-))
I remember vividly at age three crawling under my theatre seat when this was done in "Fantasia". Though done in Electronic in this version it brings back those memories in just the same frightening ways. Well done Mr. Tomita!!!
...........A TRUE MASTERPIECE OF MUSIC..........!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wspaniale ilustrowane nagranie "Nocy na Łysej Górze" Musorgskiego w prześwietnej aranżacji na muzykę elektroniczną. Mistrz Isao Tomita ubogacił swoją wyobraźnią muzyczną pierwowzór. Dziękuję za możliwość przebywania przez 10 minut w krainie basni..
Some of Tomita's work hasn't aged that well, but this is brilliant. Arguably better than the usual orchestral version.
The Artist named J Dilla has a song called Fun with Pitchshifts. He samples a section of this song here, the part that begins at 4:21. Epic.
I was really impressed with Tomita, first time I heard him in the 70s - Pictures at an Exhibition etc. All done on what must have been rudimentary synths. Good stuff!
I love this piece. The video gives me the sense that i am watching computer generated images from the Haldron Collider in Switzerland and looking for exotic new particles and sneaky goddam dimensions. I named a cat after Tomita once.
My favourite was the Hora Staccato
Yes this does need a bit of volume and a brilliant bit of virtuoso work by Tomita. I got this on vinyl very soon after it was available and remember it well and it was interesting to compare techniques with Carlos. Thanks for uploading.
Thanks for posting this Tomita's rendition of "A Night Bare Mountain".
The first time I heard a Tomita's song was on Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer on PBS back in the early 80's. The track was Clair de Lune. Actually the first time I heard of Tomita was in the 70's when I was kid watching Kimba, a Japanese animation.
Arabesque #1 was the Tomita song I always associate with the old Jack Horkheimer shows. I miss those!
Oh yeah!Jack Horkheimer show”s!I remember his telling about the planet”s in the Universe.He was quite the guy!He told amazing stories about the planet”s!Or however you discribe it?
This truly made the "haunted house" exhibit at our high school fund-raiser event in '82. Many people buried themselves alive after running out into the forest. We just went around the next day with a metal detector. Rumor has it some are still buried there. Mussorgsky still haunts my dreams.
Absolutely fantastic rendition you made. Shame about the last minutes but what the hey. Very enjoyable. Thanks for posting.
Dude this is a really awesome video! I like to smoke a shitload of weed then watch this before I go to bed at night.
Isao Tomita (QEPD) un genio incomprendido de la musica electronica
It was the first classical music that I heard with an outing at the theater when I was at the primary school. I loved it than, and I still love it.
if you had to choose one artist to listen to for the rest of your life i would be
happy to listen to "isao tomita".
I bought this LP after John Peel played it in glorious stereo FM. It was a sunny afternoon in 197? I recorded the show and played it many times. Sadly I lost the recording but I still have the LP.
Back in the 70's, I went to a laser show, at the London Planteteriumn, & heard Tomita tracks, like this, for the very First Time! We were "transported" into the heavens of that domed ceiling, with the planets, all around us! Wonderful memories! Been a lifelong fan of Tomita, ever since! Love the Bermuda Triangle!
They probably played stuff from The Planets. Also songs from Snowflakes Are Dancing . One in particular was the theme song for Star Hustler, a PBS astronomy show. I think it was Claire de Lune.nj
Oh and kudos for posting. Like most people of my age, the vinyl is in storage and the only way I can hear this stuff is on sites like this. On a whim I punched " Tomita" and got here.
Every so often I play a game with youtube. I guess some of you do the same. Punch in and see where it takes you. Sometimes it really is like a time machine.
@DollaTwo Exactly. I didn't realize how diverse he was in his samples. Not many artist use samples of this enriching calibur. This is relaxing to listen to.
Samplers weren't invented when this track came out.
This is a fantastically creative interpretation... I had heard his live one with the planets and lark ascending etc but never heard this. Really impressive, cool, and creative - and appropriately spooky.
Crazy like a fox (aka Homer S.), you know all the pitfalls.
Now I can ask young people in my life how to use these tools (no laughing), and influence them with timeless classical music.
Such a gas listening while writing.
Thanks so much for post...
the term tripping balls springs to mind
Tomita's Moog was analogue but it did not have any tubes in it, even in the late 60's, early 70's when the Moog modular was made, synths were transistor based but still notoriously unstable. Tomita said that he used to work about six hours a day doing his music and the first couple of hours was to allow the Moog warm up and settle down other wise he would be constantly retuning it. Later versions had more stable oscillators which were much better and Tomita had the upgrades done by this album
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I can't help but feeling like there are moments in this particular version of this piece that are reminiscent of Doctor Who's theme song. I'm sure it's just the synthesizer, but there are little melodic bits that make me imagine a TARDIS flying through time.
Una de las mejores interpretaciones. ¡Magistral!
Es lo mejor que he escuchado en mi vida
4:21 J dilla track 3 sample, later used for guilty simpson - i must love you
@FOTSOproductions Already man, so true on that. No doubt. The brilliance that can come out of the mind is fascinating. Alot of artists now days don't tap into that much at all. If and when they do, its rare.
Yo concia la música de Tomita, pero nunca había visto un video como éste, ¡¡¡ Es impactante !!!
A superb re-creation
Escuchar "Una noche en la árida montaña" con orquesta sinfónica, fué todo una revelación para mi a mis 10 años, pero escucharla años después en ésta versión y con éste video ha sido realmente alucinante. Recfomiendo que la escuchen con audifonos y la vean a pantalla completa.
fantastic, thanks for sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for uploading this! Is really amazing, I love this piece
At the primary school, I saw this classical version from Moussorgsky in the local theater
I am surprised to find it here in the version of Isao Tomita. I like his version of Pictures of an Exhibition from Moussorgsky also very much. .
No need to say soory for a simple error my Friend. I bought the record LP when it first came out. I had a very good Dual/Yamaha stereo system. I use to BLAST some of Tomita's tracks. But I haven't heard this track in years! Until now. Your recording sounds deep and strong. It serpasses my LP by miles! Thanks for posting! I can listen to this for a long time.
Ever since the 70s this has been my favourite version of the piece. Isao Tomita - off course with the help of the Moog Systems he uses - has been able to come nearest to core - the content - of the piece ... as with a number of other pieces he interpreted ... Debussy - The engulfed cathedral, Mussorsky - Pictures at an Exhibition, etc... There are certainly parallels to the Walt Disney Phantasias - for those without imagination ;-))
I had this on cassette in the 70's.
Dolby at it's finest.
Listening again, I'm starting to hear a hint in the soundtrack of the film Aliens.
Never turn your back on Hollywood, those bastards will steal anything.
Wonderfull combination youve made 👍
excellent stuff! rip tomita
So much fun
Very good
Could you imagine this on an IMAX in 3-D? Talk about a total trip:)
Thanks dude. And the Mac thing is perfect
Pretty awesome rendition. One of my faves of all time. Thanks for sharing this with me. I absolutely love this!
Be sure to listen to my mix, which is in my Google Drive share.
Awesome! Thanks
Handbuilt Moog Music Synthesis was State of Electronic Art in the later 70s.!
this is so amazing
This is not Weird Music, this is the real shit!
Habrá versión dolby atmos? Sería fantástico!
this man is AMAZING...
Esto hay que escucharlo con cascos. Mussorsky es uno de los más grandes compositores de todos los tiempos y esta canción pertenece a "Una noche en el Monte Pelado".
You should play this piece as loud as you can around a campfire. It should keep the Sasquaches running up into the hills...
Especially at 3:25 in. It's AMAZING!!!!!
Isao stereo Tomita.
Thank you for excellent post! "A Night on Bare Mountain" is amazing.
I love fantastic Isao Tomita music!
Mysterious and Enigmatic version is part of my soul!
I also have magical upload from Tomita's album "Kosmos" and Dancing the Dream of Universal Love by the Cosmic Sea:)
Thumbs Up!
*SS*
Magnifica, aún en electrónico.
Genius
Isao Tomita should have done The Sorcerer's Apprentice :) That would have been pretty cool too...
Don't you think?
I believe he did.
wolfback 61 What?
When did he do this? Is there anywhere I could find that?
...but on the other hand The Sorcerer's Apprentice already kind of does sound similar to music from Isao Tomita even in a symphony orchestra, so that would sound awesome and pure if Isao Tomita did The Sorcerer's Apprentice
He didn't... Dukas still unplayed by moogs.
@@cybergrind Buy his album.
Early Moog synthesizers had the coolest sounds.
My favourite Tomita piece is the Hora Staccato..
HEY....Cool movie! Spoiler Alert*Synopsis: A triad of colorful orbs are just hanging out in space doing their sparkling routine. Then they are confronted by invisible black holes that try to suck the orbs out of existence. After a furious battle they talk it out and become friends in the end.
Hahaha...Mr Mxyzptlk.....from the Superman comics. I guess knowing that...is also why I loved Tomita back then too?? Hahaha...saw your username and just had to comment! Cheers. ~KSK
I wouldn't want to spend a night bare on Bear mountain.
@TheSeriousmrkarate its called track 3 or i must love you in the final version by guilty simpsons
A laptop and a couple of powered speakers make a home theatre on the cheap!
@Pai001 Ooh ok. Thanks for that insight.
Primitive, barbarous, violent, and even menacing -- but still masterful.
It seems to suggest an American organization that loves the letter K.
No computers, just all analog synthesizers and mellotron tape recorings
All of Tomitas recordings sound overwhelming when played on a Dolby-System, some were meant to be listened on a 70s Quadrophonic system.
+Avalo Tikeshwara There's mod quad. forget
+Angus Davies What? At least some of his works were released on quadrophonic tapes
I don't know what I was thinking... Our high-school used to do a funfair and my homeroom did a haunted house in the gym boys change room circa 1982. I brought my record player and Firebird. Little kids were truly freaked out and big kids needed therapy.
I the real name to this is "Night on Bald Mountain"
😀😁
Do you remember what screen-capture app you used to record the Visualizer in iTunes? It is so clear in your video here. I haven't been able to record as well as this. Thx.
@Laughingbear1960 see my note about Laser show above! That was then, love to hear it now, in the electronic age!
WAW
114 comments today! I just wanted to post that because I like the number 114 better than 113, lol! 🤣
Moog have leads not tubes.
@Pai001 Dilla is so sneaky
uma viagem
War of the Worlds?
da matt
Why on earth was the most delicate part of this work left out?
The ending is superb and leaving it out spoils an otherwise marvellous interpretation.
Shame Shame.
isnt it funny,how names can be mis said..buggery and baggerly...its just my thinking....im warped...tis my altziemers
" full of tubes!"
WHAT?!? No it wasn't, it was full of *transistors*! Learn some f**in' history of electronics, please!
[CLAMPS A LID ON FRUSTRATION, WITH GREAT EFFORT]
... but, my old-man curmudgeonliness aside... *Thankyou* for uploading this gem, I which I greatly loved in my teens and twenties, and am rediscovering now thanks to your good efforts. [INCLINES HEAD GRATEFULLY]
=:o>
Could you imagine if it was tubes,the heat,the size. VLSI was just getting there back then
Computer Music!! WOW
PSICODELICAMENTE psicodelico... para la psique enteogenicamente endeogeno vamos jajajaj
...transforming little Melvin into an hideous deformed creature of superhuman size and strength! He became the Toxic Avenger!