Excellent addition to any electronic music collection.
This was the most controversial Tomita album, where he uses Holst's spectacular, mystical suite The Planets as a launching pad for what amounts to a simulated spaceship trip through the solar system.

Excellent addition to any electronic music collection.
Equipped with a warehouse of component Moog equipment, four phase shifters, a Roland space echo unit, a sitar (!), and other period electronic gear, Tomita re-enters the Russian classical repertoire with his take on Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1919 version).

Essential: a masterpiece of electronic music.
Who does not know “Pictures At An Exhibition”? I think very few. This time I leave part of the legacy of Tomita. Again it possess flawless execution and careful use of the sounds of old synths and wonderful Mellotron.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music.
I define Tomita as my guilty pleasure.

Essential: A masterpiece of progressive rock music.
The most perfect Jarre release for me, "Equinoxe" defines Jarre's classic sound extremely well, maybe even better than the previous "Oxygene" album.

Belated Christmas presents for fans of the late, great Brit-jazz tenorist Tubby Hayes as Universal have announced the arrival of selected remastered albums.

Il y a des enregistrements qui s'imposent avec une telle évidence que toute critique parait inutile pour ne pas dire futile. Que dire encore de neuf à propos de cette rencontre entre un compositeur et son interprète ? Que le piano de Benedetti-Michelangeli est cristallin, pyrotechnique, que son clavier semble paré de toutes les nuances de couleurs les plus infimes ? Point de maniérismes déplacés, points de langueurs "début de siècle", mais une simplicité d'expression qui fait de Debussy un frère occidental des auteurs de haïkus japonais.