Shoutbox
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Billy-Pilgrim Beautiful music!
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Tonkatoy1986 Brilliant
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gl00mer His music fills my mind with ideas and alternatives, which is only one of the many reasons why I love his compositions
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kmysko I guess "From me flows what you call Time" is truly touching music. genius
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progtrance7 trve that bro
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WindingNumber If I could only hear the works of one composer for all time, it'd be really hard for me to pick anyone but Takemitsu. Master of every mode of 20th century expression.
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phylloxr `Legacy to the Future`.... the most underrated masterpiece of his, I think.
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AztecPortal His soundtrack to "Kwaidan" is brilliant !
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tidawilson He reminds me of Messiaen. Wonderful.
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kotuko On tour? What?
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inviserase The music is so beautiful, So Zen-like I could disappear into.
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jamesfaggo Up there with Stravinsky. Some scary shit.
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kalkididymus Not surprising that I love his music. It appears that his inspirations, among others, are Debussy and Messiaen.
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caro_vian i luv
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haye126 wauw :o
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tsienni ZEN !
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floydman66 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html
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KZ amazing
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boozec Intersting.
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TimesOfGrace Takemitsu is THE shit.
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WindingNumber
Here here Alphavillain.
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phylloxr
Have you ever listened to `Kwaidan` and `Legacy to the Future`(NHK tv series soundtrack)? braethtakingly beautiful!
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mosesxan Somebody needs to map this page and this page together.
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Alphavillain Along with Morricone, the greatest composer of film soundtracks...and of course so much more besides.
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MiloDC Archipelago S!
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be_quiet_peter CUNT LASTFM
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marker1953 what a discovery. i say thank you to last.fm!
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bogdan_dullsky excellent
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Mynameisluca this is really really good..
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twisted_finger 2 SirAlecHendrix: maybe they call it "japanese" because Takemitsu used shakuhachi, biva, taiko drums and other japanese percussion in his orchestral works =)
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SirAlecHendrix new avant-garde group about the future of music : organization of sound - http://www.last.fm/group/organization+of+sound
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SirAlecHendrix
i'm trying to understand why takemitsu and his music is tagged 'japanese', because after listening to his wonderful music i didn't recognize a specific japanese musical trait. i guess, a japanese composer doesn't need to write 'japanese music', and his music isn't national or culturally restricted in any way. just listen ...
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Debtfromabove @ eumaios, no, but I definitely want to. Gonna track down whatever I can found by this guy. He's fantastic!
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Frippgamesh Thanks a lot, both were perfect for my project on him :)
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ekkert or november steps, which i just discovered today
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be_quiet_peter
Try "Hell's Picture Scroll" from the RAN soundtrack. Uncomfortably emotional. (RAN is more of an example of combining Western/Japanese orchestral setups, while the Kwaidan soundtrack shows him combining a traditional Japanese starkness of sounds along with European Musique concrète methods)
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Frippgamesh
Can any of you please recommend a piece that shows his Japanese musical influences? I would love to hear how he combined western and traditional music.
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be_quiet_peter
I can't believe he did Kwaidan! That's been one of my favourites since grade 8.
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Eftos absolute endless bows, master, you are my hero, the infinite best. (the similar make me throw up)
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zonnebloemkonin innovative and <3music.
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mosesxan
I need to find my From Me Flows What You Call Time CD. NEED to hear it.
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danielj666 Am I the only one who find some of his music scary? :P
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Aeroaviones hey... I hear the water dreaming.
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blarkan Amazing soundtracks. I like Tanin no kao, Suna no onna, Ten no amijima, Tokyo senso sengo hiwa and Kuroi ame especially.
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SonOfTheWookie As far as I'm concerned, definately the most tolerable classical composer.
