Firebird by Isao Tomita REMASTERED

[@Taranau]

all of Isao's music, made it easy to visualize what the songs are about. whether it is Firebird, or Planets, or any of the others,,, you put on the album, and close your eyes --- you can't help but dream it into existence... the Firebird, for me, is a huge Golden Eagle of flames. red, blue, pink and purple. ridding the world of the evil King Katschei, and ushering in the new leader...

[@eniax]

I used to listen to tomita while reading science fiction when I was about 9 to 13 years old... this was the first album I heard. My uncle Pipo had no idea he would change the course of my life from that moment on... Forever grateful 🥲

[@MiklosGrof]

Normally I don't like the syntesyser transcriptions, but since my childhood this is one of BEST transcription for my taste, maybe better like the original piece. Why ? Strawinsky's fantasy boardered very much by the symphonyc orchestra, which really able to play lot of different moodes, feelings, spaces, but boardered by the instruments. Isao Tomita realised for me the REAL wish of Strawinsky, the ideal soundspace of the Firebird. We known the russian story about Firebird legend, which is the base of Strawinsky's piece. But also, by this transcription we can hear our big central Firebird: the Sun's story on the sky, finally with innormous great protuberances, before as the quelle of the unlimited power against the cold winter...to be honest, Tomita's transcription very good opportunity to create a videoclip about the Sun, about Nature and about the unlimited, colourful life of the nature with and by the SUN.

[@pianoman1316]

This album literally changed my life. It was a preview of the future of keyboards! Tomita was so ahead of his time!

[@DrTomoculus]

He was a giant.

[@eniax]

Changed my life too

[@bettyleeist]

We did the Firebird Ballet 🩰 in Iowa City in:1993,or possibly in 1994,I believe it was?It was done during that summer of that year.Thus,ushering in some ballet talent from other areas of Iowa as well.As far as listening to Isao Tomita goes,it was always ‘s in the afternoon’s with no work at the dance 💃 studio,so,I could indulge in my pleasure 😇 of listening to Tomita!I still have a few of his album’s to this day!He was discovered by my mom 👩 in 1982.Which,I believe,was in the spring or summer of that year?And,as alway’s it’s “happy days’listening to Isao Tomita!

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

This album changed my life ❤️🧡💛 My Brilliant, award-winning singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist/engineer father introduced me to the brilliance of Isao Tomita ❤️🧡💛

[@DrTomoculus]

Isao is my synthesiser guru

[@edwinbitsoe3051]

A true pioneer of Electronic synthesize music....!!!!!!

[@DrTomoculus]

He was a giant.

[@edwinbitsoe3051]

DrTomoculus He will definitely be missed,but NEVER Forgotten (Threading on the deck Planets later today,then Bolero!!!!!)

[@abyios]

Always loved this album. I listened to it when it first came out (years ago) and still listen to it today. Timeless music by the late great Isao Tomita. TY for posting.

[@italokid80]

one of the best electronic sound ever

[@Kadag]

Every time I hear it I'm transported back to the first time I heard it and I just could not believe my ears such beauty as I had never experienced before!

[@vigulfmusicproduct]

One of my Heros since 1984.R.I.P. Tomita.

[@RobMacKendrick]

Takes me back to the 70s. Still have the album.

[@Skipatronic]

One of my new favorite musical things I stumbled upon

[@ginobee3585]

I wish I had the funding to create a sci-fi movie around this music...

[@satoshirobles6447]

Desde mi infancia escucho fire bird de Isao tomita ,me hacía soñar y sigo igual vuela mi imaginación .Bosques Solitarios y noches de Luna llena me eriza la piel , he tenido sueños surrealistas con esta música .

[@bobbysimons9022]

This remaster has the majestic power that was lost in the original CD master. The last few minutes makes my head explode again!

[@DrTomoculus]

Thank you very much for the comment. Isao Tomita was a giant. I had hoped anything I did with the upload did him some justice. He was a giant.

[@eddyfinkful]

Agreed! First time hearing, after all the years I been a fan of Isao, now with a DECENT pair of Headphones!

[@luisrosado9772]

pure vinyl, pure magic

[@eddyfinkful]

Nice to hear Remastered! cassette version, now bit stretched!

[@eddyfinkful]

Since posted 4 yrs ago, now, Broke!

[@Electrohedron]

It was my Grandma's 8-track where I heard it first.

[@donovanceron4563]

GRANDIOSO ; NADIE COMO ÉL . UNA PERSONALIDAD EXTRATERRESTRE ; SIN DUDA ALGUNA

[@georgecundiff9403]

rip To a Real Master Isao Tomita Of the moog listened to it as a kid Many Times With My Next Door Neighbor Marc Hartzell Who Had It On A Lp

[@FinBotInsights]

This is amazing

[@lynnp.5549]

Have a listen to Larry Fast's 1st release Synergy. Enjoyed both this and that as well

[@DrTomoculus]

I will, I used to be friends with him on Facebook before my account got deleted!!!! Zuckerberg!!!!

[@sargolan]

Oh, my God!

[@alnitaka]

Sometimes I think of this Igor Stravinsky piece as the most beautiful piece ever written (and Tomita does it well). (His "Le Sacre du Printemps" to me is the most cacophonous piece ever written. ) By the same composer.

[@owenmcgee8496]

4:59 the "round of the princesses" starts

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Everyone of all over the world mourns Mr. Tomitas death， and I thank as the same japanese . I knew to have been loveed by everyone of all over the world for the first time by this site . It is affected.

[@SM-ok3sz]

Aw man, I read that as “freebird” and was like “Hell Yes!”

[@DrTomoculus]

Sorry that happoened to ya! ;)

[@terencebeechener3334]

Isao Tomita makes JM-J seem amature.

[@nordic2112]

I was wondering why this sounded so bad then I read "using vinyl". Oh dear, that's a pretty wrecked copy there :-( I've got a mint english pressing so I might give it a shot too, will let you know how I go.

[@CeresKLee]

Amazing - this can't be vinyl, can it?

[@DrTomoculus]

It is. I bought it in Oxfam many years ago :)

[@CeresKLee]

@@DrTomoculus I did too, when it was new. But I never heard it clearly - like a CD! But my hearing it not so good, in my ole age.

[@WNBRLondon]

Anyone who inserts adverts in a musical work should be blocked for life

[@DrTomoculus]

Then that would be KZbin then. They put them in. I have no control over that. You have a dilemma.

[@robertBuckinghamB-uh5nx]

I see it as an insult to this great man cheapening his gift there is no product or service I would consider when my enjoyment of these sounds ruined 👍👍👍 for Tomita 👎👎👎 for misplaced ads in a tongue I don’t speak⁉️⁉️⁉️

[@owenmcgee8496]

...I used to consider this Tomita's most successful synth arrangement, but (mind is blank, sorry...)..."maybe" the thought was the idea of Asians taking "western" (well, Russian actually...which is potentially a little Asian) art music and reinventing it...no Austrian or English arseholes drooling over classical Greek and Roman statues...just total imagination without the need of objects or even a storyline...classical composers using texts of bad old "hubris" stories for inspiration; bad idea...Tomita sending their tunes into another dimension; good idea?...a fresh approach...but but (mind is blank, sorry...). Seriously, though, I do remember listening to this and Stravinsky's score back to back and preferring this. Not many times (hardly at all) can I say that of Tomita's things, except perhaps some of his Ravel and Prokofiev interpretations. Debussy? Holst? Nah. Leave them alone. Don't tamper. Tamper.

[@terryhall8042]

...He has mastered the score of Stravinsky note by note & interpreted it classically in 1976 with available electronics at that time - no one else has done anything like his interpretations since! - the drama & melancholy is 100% enhanced - brings it completely out to the forefront....

[@中村耕太郎]

「シンセサイザーを大衆にアピールするには、よく知られたクラシックをアレンジするのが得策だ」と考えたようだが、オリジナルとの違いから、「邪道だ」「お遊びだ」「生楽器には到底かなわない」との声も多かった。 だったら、冨田さんはどんな曲でも作れるし、シンセサイザーでお遊びみたいな音が大好きなんだから、コミカルなインスト集の路線にしたら良かった。何かにつけ、フェイザーやフランジャーのモジュレーションを前面に出しすぎた音には辟易した。