Isao Tomita - A Night on Bare Mountain

I was surprised to see that this one has not been uploaded to Youtube yet. I see most of Isao Tomita's music but remarkably absent was A Night on Bare Mountain from the Firebird album in 1975 or '76. This is probably because the song is 13 minutes long and Youtube usually limits people to 10. A while back I had re-mastered this one and cut it down to 10 minutes due to an accessively drawn out last 3 minutes. So, it fits here on Youtube like this. Sorry for the hard core Tomita fans who want those last 3 minutes. And my apologies as well for the major hiccup at 2:54. I have no idea why that's there. Something happened while transcoding onto Youtube. That's not on the copy I uploaded. But DEFINATELY beam this to your TV or major sound system wherever it is in your house or computer or headphones and crank it up! I rendered this with a very high audio bitrate and it seems to have come through really well on audio. The video capture is the iTunes visualizer which seems to have been made for this kind of music. Anyone curious, that was a 10 minute, 5.5 gigabyte FRAPS HD capture.

This of course is a highly unusual rendition of Night on Bare Mountain or Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorsky. You likely remember this piece from Fantasia by Disney. Here it is performed by Isao Tomita way back in the 70's with absolutely no digital interface. Amazing when you listen to it. He was using what's called a MOOG synthesizer which was completely analog, full of tubes! Then rendered onto tape! And no computer. Can you imagine the nightmare such a thing would have been back then? Now of course a regular Yamaha keyboard can multitrack and computer editors give someone with musical talent the ability to do such a thing. But still, not quite that MOOG sound!

I hope this finds all the Tomita fanatics who have been looking for it here. It didn't get a copyright violation so I'll try to leave it up as long as I can. Sorry to my regular subscribers who are wondering if I've gone crazy posting such a thing. I'm into classical music. I also like wierd music.

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