Toru Takemitsu - Coral Island / Water Music / Vocalism Ai FLAC

Toru Takemitsu Rca Victrola Contemporary Experimental Musique Concrète 1969

Genre:	Electronic / Classical
Performer:	Toru Takemitsu
Title:	Coral Island / Water Music / Vocalism Ai
Style:	Contemporary, Experimental, Musique Concrète
Date of release:	1969
Label:	RCA Victrola
Catalog Number:	VICS-1334
Country:	US
FLAC album size:	1446 mb
MP3 album size:	2777 mb

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Tracklist

1	Coral Island Conductor – Hiroshi WakasugiOrchestra – Yomiuri Nippon Symphony OrchestraSoprano Vocals – Mutsumi MasudaText By [Poem] – Makoto Ohka	16:40
2	Water Music Engineer [Recording] – Junosuke Okuyama	9:42
3	Vocalism Ai (Love) Text By [Poem, Uncredited] – Shuntaro TanikawaVoice [Uncredited] – H. Mizushima, K. Kishida	4:09

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
VICS-1334	Toru Takemitsu	The New Music Vol. 4 Japan ‎(LP)	RCA Victrola	VICS-1334	UK	1969
731087	Toru Takemitsu	Coral Island / Water Music / Vocalism Ai ‎(LP)	RCA	731087	France	1969
VCCS-1334	Takemitsu	Coral Island / Water Music / Vocalism Ai ‎(LP)	Camden Classics Victrola	VCCS-1334	Canada	Unknown

Credits

Painting [Cover] – James Alexander

Notes

Coral Island (An Atoll) for soprano and orchestra; composed in 1962.
Water Music for magnetic tape; composed in 1960.
Vocalism Ai (Love) condensed from a 72-hour tape montage; composed in 1956.

Recorded in Japan.

Printed in U.S.A.

Barcodes

Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): WVRS--6771--1S
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): WVRS--6772--1S
Other (Library of Congress Card Number): R68-2847

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Wrathmaster

Fascinating sensitive and poetic tonal arrangements that might have more in common with modern and/or Japanese painting techniques than any musical tradition. Although Coral Island for soprano and orchestra has familiar contemporary sounds and snippets, Takemitsu's imaginative command of (de-)composition and tone colour is stunning. Sounding like a bunch of loose (beach) sand at first, later on one realizes nothing is either in or out of place. It just is.
Although less dynamic in nature but just as fascinating, Water Music and Vocalism Ai are two musique concrète pieces that complement Coral Island very well.