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....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
... “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”...