{"id":2654,"date":"2012-11-17T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2012-11-17T09:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T14:33:55","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-325-new-age-switched-on-holst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/17\/my-musical-evolution-part-325-new-age-switched-on-holst\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 325 New Age Switched-On Holst"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tomita<\/a>My\u00a0introduction to Tomita <\/em>was this version of Holst’s The Planets.<\/em> I was familiar with Holst and The Planets\u00a0due to my involvement with classical music and Star Wars.<\/em> I had originally checked out\u00a0The Planets <\/em>because my cousin thought that might like it since I liked the Star Wars Soundtrack so much.<\/p>\n

Again, like with Switched-On Bach<\/em> we see my love for electronic music mixing with classical. I really do like this version of The Planets.<\/em> I found it in the New Age <\/em>section but I think that it might have\u00a0been more by association. A lot of Tomita’s stuff winds up in New Age\u00a0<\/em>probably because they don’t know what else to do with it. It is synthesizer driven electronic stuff but I wouldn’t consider it New Age<\/em> as I had come to understand it. I’m doing the same thing here. I tell myself that I’m filing this asNew Agebecause it was under this heading that it came to me. The reality is that I don’t know what else to do with it.<\/p>\n

It really is good fun to listen to if you enjoy electronic music. It reminds me more of Queen’s Flash Gordon Soundtrack <\/em>than Star Wars though even though there are several bits that sound like R2-D2 might have been contributing back up vocals.<\/p>\n

Although this was the first time I heard of the name Tomita<\/em> I had heard another piece of his for years as I was a fan of the Star Hustler <\/em>turned Star Gazer<\/em> program on PBS with Jack Horkheimer.<\/em> Star Hustler’s theme was Tomita’s version of Arabesque No. 1. <\/em>Something that I’d discover years later.<\/p>\n

 
\nMars – The Bringer Of War<\/em>
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