Symbol




Volume 2 - Album 1









Regarded by Yokota as his masterpiece and rightly so. An endlessly inventive mixture of classical and contemporary forms.






A1: Long Long Silk Bridge  
A2: Purple Rose Minuet  
A3: Traveler In Wonderland   
A4: Song Of The Sleeping Forest  
A5: The Plateau Which The Zephyr Of Flora Occupies  
A6: Fairy Dance Of Twinkle And Shadow


B1: Flaming Love And Destiny  
B2: The Dying Black Swan.  
B3: Blue Sky And Yellow Sunflower   
B4: Capriccio And The Innovative Composer.  
B5: I Close The Door Upon Myself  
B6: Symbol Of Life, Love, And Aesthetics.   
B5: Music From The Lake Surface




Including an essay by Tsutomu Noda in the liner notes....

... “During the production of the album he explained that he listened mostly to Moodymann’s Black Mahogany and Silence in the Secret Garden albums. In his studio he knitted together Detroit’s soulful music with fragments of classical music, whilst looking at a collection of radical late 19th centuary anti-modernist european art”...