Tag Archives: Tomita

TOMITA – A TRIBUTE

May 9, 2016 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ACROSS THE DECADES, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art, Memoir with Music, Obituaries, Progressive · 17 Comments

Japanese synthesiser pioneer Isao Tomita died in the first week of May at the age of eight-four. Inspired by Robert Moog’s electronic instruments and the work of Wendy Carlos, Tomita produced a substantial catalogue of studio albums in addition to several live releases and a significant body of soundtrack work. In a previous post, I wrote briefly about […]

THANKS FOR DROPPING BY

December 21, 2015 · by · in b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], e) Naughts [2000 - 2009], Particular platters, Progressive · 14 Comments

For some blogs, fifty-five thousand page views is an average week. For Vinyl Connection it is the culmination of over two-and-a-half years of posts. That’s OK; a mass audience was neither the goal nor expectation. Still, it is a little milestone worth marking, so I dipped into the VC catalogue and pulled out spreadsheet entries […]