Isao Tomita – Space Fantasy (2015)
SACD ISO: DST64 5.1, 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 3.02 GB
Genre: Classical, Electronic | Label: Denon | Release Year: 2015
This hybrid SACD contains stereo and 4.0 multi-channel audio and I think it’s fantastic!
Tomita was 83 when he re-arranged and re-mixed his Kosmos album for SACD. I think it’s remarkable that he was still working, but I feel I must reluctantly share why you may want to skip this one…
Isao Tomita – Planet Zero (2011)
SACD ISO: DSD64 2.0, DST64 4.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 1.76 GB
Genre: Classical, Electronic | Label: Denon | Release Year: 2011
This hybrid SACD contains stereo and 4.0 multi-channel audio and I think it’s fantastic!
Planet Zero contains reworked versions of several compositions released by Isao Tomita’s in the seventies, mainly from the 1976 album “The Planets”.
Isao Tomita – Planets Ultimate Edition (2011)
SACD ISO: DSD64 2.0/5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:53:24 | 2,46 GB
Genre: Classical, Electronic | Label: Denon # COGQ-51 | Release Year: 2011
This hybrid SACD contains stereo and 4.0 multi-channel audio and I think it’s fantastic!
In essence, Tomita’s The Planets is an electronic rendition of The Planets by Gustav Holst. The idea of messing with a classic like The Planets might offend some, but not me – I love it! His interpretation is incredibly imaginative and works a treat because each piece manages to capture some of the mood and emotion of the original as scored by Holst, yet also adds something to make it sound truly special. Not only does it work tremendously well as a piece of music, it sounds great too i.e. it sounds spectacular in stereo and multi-channel, as hi-res music should.
Isao Tomita – Moussorgsky-Tomita: Pictures At An Exhibition (1975/2014)
SACD ISO: DSD64 2.0, DST64 4.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 3.33 GB
Genre: Classical, Electronic | Label: Denon | Release Year: 1975/2014
This hybrid SACD contains stereo and 4.0 multi-channel audio and I think it’s fantastic!
For this album TOMITA created some of the most unusual, high quality electronic sounds ever heard. Then he used these sounds very effectively in some amazing orchestrations. The listening is as enjoyable as it is bizarre, quite an accomplishment in itself.
Isao Tomita – Okhotsk Fantasy (2016)
SACD ISO: DSD64 2.0, DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 3.44 GB
Genre: Classical, Electronic | Label: Nippon Colombia | Release Year: 2016
This hybrid SACD contains stereo and 4.1 multi-channel audio and I think it’s fantastic!
Many of us Tomita fans wondered why he put a mono recording of an old cartoon on the OKHOTSK FANTASY album, instead of doing a DAPHNIS AND CHLOE – ULTIMATE EDITION in discrete 4.1 channel Quadraphonic sound… Now it is clear, the OKHOTSK FANTASY album was his last. It was released in March 2016, and he passed away two months later. So he probably wasn’t able to finish it. Knowing this, we can wish that he had started putting his Quadraphonic albums on SACD sooner, but we can’t blame him for the last two SACDs, because he was 83 and 84 when he did them.