I did some quick searching and the Cosmos track originally appears to be from a 1974 NHK Documentary called The Legend of the Future. One of the Takemitsu complete boxes looks to have 41 minutes of score from that show.
I did some quick searching and the Cosmos track originally appears to be from a 1974 NHK Documentary called The Legend of the Future.
Indeed it is. The track in question is called "Kokorono Nakano Uchu". It's my favorite work by Takemitsu. In only a minute-and-a-half, he managed to accomplish what Tangerine Dream spent their first entire 4 albums doing.
The vinyl soundtrack album was a 1974 Polydor release, and it was eventually a CD on Deutsche Grammophon. To my frustration, I've never been able to track down a copy.
Not a big online shopper. Too paranoid. Usually it's my way to get an actual shop to order something in for me. If something happens to it and it doesn't arrive, then it didn't cost me a dime.
PS. I'm digging your board-name, MKRUltra. Not a lot of folks know what that was all about.
...album was a 1974 Polydor release, and it was eventually a CD on Deutsche Grammophon. To my frustration, I've never been able to track down a copy.
In 2005, I had gotten that DG CD (which was released in 1997). Interestingly, the entire album is in Japanese - so this DG disc must have been a Japan-only issue with none of the album notes translated into any other languages.
I recently learned to my amazement -- and horror -- that Takemitsu wrote an original score for Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth -- which Jarmisch rejected.
Night On Earth is already a wonderfully offbeat and inventive picture, but Takemitsu's music would have brought a whole other level of humanity and class to it.
