上位の批判的レビュー
5つ星のうち1.0Terrible remix
2012年11月22日に日本でレビュー済み
Following on from his intriguing and enjoyable remix album Planets Ultimate Edition, a reworking of his popular 1976 album The Tomita Planets, Tomita subsequently retackled his first classical Moog album, 1974's Snowflakes Are Dancing, in this new high-resolution SACD edition which features both stereo and surround mixes. In interviews he said he was able to denoise and clean up his original tracks, to get closer to the sounds he was trying to achieve originally. If this is true and there is any difference in clarity, it's impossible to discern in his new and radical remix of the material, which is so buried in reverberation that everything has the consistency of mud.
Though in 1974 he had a playful and clever approach to the stereo field, here in 2012 he squeezes everything essentially into mono, and he's apparently also lost sensitivity in hearing mid-range frequencies, resulting in a truly ugly and tinny equalization, which combined with the excessive reverb and compressed stereo field results in nothing so much as headache-inducing claustrophobia. Despite the addition of some new sound effects here and there, the new versions of all the original tracks sound completely horrible.
On the bright side, the two new Debussy covers, "Arabesque #2" and "Nuages" have much drier mixes, better stereo panning, and are quite enjoyable; while not quite on par with his work from 1974 to 1984, they are remarkable for a man in his early 80s, which Tomita now is. My advice is to rip the excellent 2004 Japanese stereo CD re-release of the original album, append these two new tracks to it, burn a CD-R, and forget everything else. Unless he decides to mend his ways with any future remixes, Isao Tomita is yet another aging artist who should stay away from his earlier work.
